Although they were always hated by the know-nothing media-pseuds, Stoke were once the thinking-fanâs underdog of choice. A scruffy Northern oik turning up at the champagne reception and belching with a four-pack of tennents-super under their arms, they held a certain roughân'ready appeal to those who realise that football is about far more than counting pretty passes. But whatâs gone wrong? Whereas the Swans and Canaries are playing quality football on a pittance, Tony Pulis has spent somewhere around £70 million to make his team even more one-dimensional and ugly to watch. Itâs like giving someone the money to buy a Ferrari, only to watch them invite Tim Westwood round to pimp up a bin lorry instead. This wouldnât matter a jot if they were winning, but the Potters are slipping.
As Paul Simon sang - slip slip sliding away, or: Here's to you Win Palacios Pulis hates you more than he can say Hey hey hey (Obviously to the tune of Mrs Robinson)
Premiership Poke is a website that, amongst other things (I think), writes a bit of a piss take about the weeks goings on in the premier league. Can't remember where I saw the link to it now, might have been on facebook, but as I've been to Blackpool for a couple of days and not thought at all about anything Stoke related, my memory is a blank.
So to flip the coin again Did this writer do a blog when we won 4 on the trot before Christmas? Did he slate our style of play or results gained during that period? Don't think he did, like all journalists, they never write about us when we are winning, but as sure as night is day, as soon as we start losing a few games, they all come crawling out of the gutter, trying to diminish SCFC, because they & the FA want us out of this league ASAP. Well **** Em, we are here too stay.
Nah, not like that at all. I just copied the bit that related to us, the rest of the teams got their fair share too, if they deserved it.
