Exquisit piece in the Guardian, Genius

[spunkbubble]

www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/jul/29/stoke-britannia-stadium-rainy-tuesday

The Britannia Stadium is painted as the most terrifying location for outsiders since contemporary horror films were set in Texan outposts. It has become, at least in England, the acid test of a footballer. Can he do it on a wet, windy Tuesday night in Stoke? (It's almost always Tuesday, never Wednesday, as if that's the day on which 99% of Stoke's rain falls, and when Ryan Shawcross's boots mysteriously develop a steel toecap.) The observation is generally made with such patriotic relish that Stoke's ground could be renamed the Rule Britannia Stadium.

[The Swahili Bastardizers]

I nicked the last paragraph for me profile on the Oatie... ;D

This comment may replace it though..:

'Stoke is a drab place. It is grey and dark. The team syblosies gritty hardworkers who will turn over a team with their minds on Saturday's game with Man Utd,'


Especially the 'syblosies' touch.. ;D

[Roy Cropper]

Love it, the atmosphere on Thursday was fantastic I thought.

[Stokiecat]

Own up - who from the NEA thread wrote this in the comments?

[nonington]

Not a bad piece.