The Stoke City Courier
Match19 Aug 2034
18 unbeaten for Stoke City
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 18 matches without defeat is a foundation Stoke City did not have in the autumn.
Match19 Aug 2034
Stoke City make home a hard place to visit
19 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad21 Aug 2034
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jonathan Cunningham
76 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stoke City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout21 Aug 2034
Cornelius Allen says Stoke City went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings21 Aug 2034
Age has not caught Phil Foden yet — 8.24
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.24 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2034
Stoke City rebuffed over Nilson Angulo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Everton have kept their man, and Stoke City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Aug 2034
Tempers go at Stoke City
Kaye Furo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Aug 2034
Words at Stoke City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Seedy Jatta is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom21 Aug 2034
Graduation day at Stoke City
17 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- Market Robert Henderson steps up from the Stoke City academy
- Market One of our own: Mark Marshall joins the Stoke City first team
- Market One of our own: Steven Richardson joins the Stoke City first team