Features news coverage of Stoke City and its players, including match reports, transfer rumours and general football news.
It’s been an entertaining start to the Premiership season, and no more so than at the bottom of the table.
Two of the newly promoted teams from the Championship, Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion, faced off at the weekend—two teams that...
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CARLING CUP holders Tottenham have been paired with Watford in the quarter-finals. Harry Redknapp’s men will travel to Vicarage Road after knocking out Liverpool.
Manchester United face Blackburn at Old Trafford, while Stoke host Derby.
Burnley,...
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It was Benjamin Disraeli, the former British Prime Minister, who was credited with saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
The statement refers to the persuasive power of numbers, the use of statistics...
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The Carling Cup is in play today and tomorrow - and while we’ve questioned its importance in the past and ways...
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I never thought I’d say this but I am beginning to think that Rory Delap has become a priceless Premier League commodity.
Delap’s throw-ins are not just incredible, they are incredibly effective. Seven of Stoke’s 13 goals this season...
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Watch Arsenal succumb to a spirited Stoke City and fall out of the title race.
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It just seems that it cannot get any worse for Tottenham Hotspur after defeat at new boys Stoke City continued their worst-ever start to a season.
Written by Soccerlens. 4 comments
There are occasional times throughout the season when you cannot help but wish that you had the foresight to predict these unlikely situations which present themselves, and preferably to have had a little flutter on it. One such instance is Sunday’s...
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The English Premiership’s most costly bench-warmers have been revealed today in a new list published by football scouting website IMScouting.com. The list gives...
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Sunday was the day that the Aston Villa juggernaut was set to send the Premiership in circles by derailing what is turning out to be one of the most astonishing records in Premiership history. Instead of ranting about what Chelsea football club have...
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English Premier League video highlights from the 27-28 September 08 matches:
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No man is an island, with the possible exception of Frank Lampard.
We all crave companionship, but I crossed the line in my pursuit of Helen Chamberlain. I sneaked in to the Soccer AM studios and took a few unauthorised photos to publish on...
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Personally, I am not convinced that West Ham will be handing over money to Sheffield United this side of 2020 with all the expected appeals, but this morning’s newspapers are full of stories that the Hammers will be forced to sell their star...
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Video highlights from the weekend’s Premier League games:
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Arsenal moved smoothly to the top of the Premier League and Right Result table with an impressive win at Bolton Wanderers.
All did not go according to script at their former bogey ground though….
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It’s been a weekend of missed penalties - by the referees - this week with the Right Result.
Top of the list is Alan Wiley’s change of mind that infuriated Everton at Stoke City.
The Staffordshire official appeared to point...
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Gerry takes a break from his weekly drudgery of crime-fighting and orphan-rescuing to give you the latest on English football and your best bet for the weekend.
In many ways I’m like a dwarf - I find it hard to put my hand in my pocket....
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Written by Gerry McDonnell. 19 comments
Come on down! These days everyone wants to be taken over by a billionaire and then immediately get linked with players worth more than the entire debt of Africa. But how?
Ker-Ching! It’s easy! The Premier League title awaits, all you have...
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Deloitte consultancy firm reported that English Premier League clubs spent more than GBP 500 million during the recent summer transfer window.
Including the 2008 winter transfer window, total transfer spending was around GBP 675 million, compared...
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Few noticed last week when Juande Ramos called for a shortening of the transfer window, but the nuclear fallout from Monday’s race to the finish seems to support his argument.
Prior to Monday, Robinho had been settling in nicely for...
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Written by Richard Whittall. 6 comments
The Premiership woke up this morning to a lot of excitement.
Everton fans were celebrating breaking their transfer record, West Ham fans were incredulous that they had sold half their defence without replacing them, Liverpool fans were “overjoyed”...
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There’s really only a couple (well, one to be specific) deals that many people followed on transfer deadline day, but while many looked to see if Dimitar Berbatov would sign for Manchester United and who Manchester City would nab...
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Written by Eddie Griffin. 2 comments
After hundreds (at least) of news bits over the last few months, we’re finally almost at the end of the summer transfer window. There’s a lot yet to happen on the final day of the window, but I’m here to get you caught up on all of the latest...
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Written by Eddie Griffin. 17 comments
I’ve never really understood the need for foreign travel. It makes no sense to leave a perfectly good country for a significantly poorer one; although this is never a real problem for the Welsh.
When I have capitulated to convention, I have...
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Written by Gerry McDonnell. 9 comments
Who would win the Premier League? The Champions League? The FA Cup?
Would Manchester United and Chelsea still fight for the title? Will Arsenal and Liverpool be dumped out of Europe by Villa, Everton and Tottenham?
Which is the best...
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Written by Oliver Fowler. 18 comments
After the second weekend of the new season, there’s only one Premier League team left with a 100% record, according to the Right Result.
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It’s the weekend again, and while we sit back and take in the second round of Premier League action (or follow whatever league it is that’s your favorite), there’s still plenty to talk about on the transfer front as we move closer to the end...
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The Olympic Games have been a real disappointment. The only event that I was desperate to watch was the diving, but it turned out to be a few lunatics jumping into a pool.
My tissues did come in handy when Paula Radcliffe limped over the line...
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Written by Gerry McDonnell. 16 comments
It’s a pretty short day in transfer tidbits, since most of the focus today is on the international action going on everywhere, but there is still a decent amount of news to report on, so let’s hop to it, shall we?
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