Category Archives: Stoke City

‘Football Moralists’ Are Detrimental To Our Wonderfully Competitive League…

By Jack Heaney

Arrogant accusations have come with Stoke’s steady risers: they are brutes, they play ‘ugly’ football. It is clear to me that though this has been debated endlessly, ‘pretty’ success must not matter. Read More »

Stoke 1–3 Newcastle – The Silence of the Ba

By Steven Kenyon

Demba Ba came back to haunt Stoke with a hat-trick for Newcastle on a cold Halloween night at the Britannia Stadium.

Ba, who claimed he was “all ready to sign” before Stoke pulled the plug in January, bagged three goals which lifted unbeaten Newcastle into third place in the Premier League.

The former Hoffenheim man headed in Gabriel Obertan’s cross to put Newcastle ahead and silenced the home fans when he bundled home a close range finish before half time. Read More »