Frank Fielding

Goalkeeper - Stoke City
30 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Frank Fielding

8 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Million Manhoef runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Róbert Boženík in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stoke City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Stoke City come up short against Sheffield Wednesday

Sheffield Wednesday left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Divin Mubama in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stoke City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Million Manhoef falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Stoke City pick somebody else ahead of Lewis Baker

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

Stoke City bring in an old head

Joãozinho is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Player ratings

Tomáš Rigo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Point won or two lost for Stoke City?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Bristol City? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief