Blatantly plagiarising from my friends on the Tottenham and Manchester City blogs, though I suppose it takes one to know one, right Matt, I’ll put together my own Stoke City end of season awards ceremony, with various categories of awards.

Player of the Season
There really is only one possible candidate here, a true Stoke City [...]

  In this season of great over-achievement for Stoke, players in every area of the pitch, from the goalkeepers to the strikers have played a part in allowing us to amount to so much more than the parts of the whole. As the season’s now over, I’ll run through how I rate all the players’ [...]

  As this season’s come to an end, I’ve put together a compilation of all the best Stoke City pictures, hopefully capturing the highs and lows along the way, and the overall essence of what has been a very successful 2008/09.
 

The Stoke fans descend upon Bolton for our first ever Premier League match

Forty-five minutes and [...]

  Stoke’s veteran holding midfielder Salif Diao looks set to leave the Britannia Stadium after indicating he is unhappy with the way contract negotiations are going with the club. The 32 year old Senegalese international, who scored at the 2002 World Cup, is out of contract this summer, and was quoted in interview as saying, [...]

  Who would have thought that, when we first took to the Premier League field at Bolton over nine months ago now, and returned from it dejected, having been thoroughly beaten 3-1 by what we saw as one of the division’s weaker sides, that this season would turn out the way it has done? Paddy Power, [...]

…Alex Ferguson. Typical. A crumb of comfort to those Stoke fans saying that Tony Pulis should have won it will be that the Potters’ boss came in a very respectable third, narrowly behind Fulham’s Roy Hodgson. I don’t gripe that Hodgson finished ahead of Pulis, I think the Fulham manager deserved to win it, but really, [...]

  The 2008/09 Premier League season, one in which the achievements of Stoke City Football Club have exceeded the expectations of all but the most indulgent of fantasists, comes to an end this Sunday. The curtain will be brought down on the campaign for Stoke away at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in a surprisingly meaningless clash, [...]

  Stoke have today announced that French forward Vincent Pericard will be released from the club when his current contract expires in June. The Cameroonian born Frenchman has had a tough time over the last couple of years, spending a month in prison for motoring offences and struggling to make any impression on the Stoke [...]

 Inspired by the bizarre and unsightly new Bolton kit which was recently released, I’ve decided to write a little end of season, soft piece on all the less attractive football kits we have seen our teams take to the pitch in over the past couple of decades. Featuring efforts from distant corners of the globe, [...]