Stoke at the Reebok...

[Randy Watson]

Can't wait to give some of the stokie hooligans some stick tomorrow!


Holdan was class the real MOTM in my opinion! CYL ran his socks offf and was Keenakered by the end so fair play to him!


White Army!!

[TKIZ!]

i think the real disturbing thing to come out of all this is how many of you go the the match with yer missus!? wtf is all that about?

She likes to watch football, so to knock some sense into her I take her to see the Wanderers. She unfortunately is a know-nowt-Gooner.

[tripod]

has anyone got a link for the goals? missed MOTD

[bobo the clown]

Ha, the ref wasn't biased. Come on, how often do you get a whole football ground telling the referee he's not fit to do this job? He performed pitifully, but it evened out

my bad... i actually do remeber your lot signing it with us, sorry about that, but lets just watch MOTD and see if it was a peno

I did do.

It wasn't.

It was a foul on Knight by Huth.

Please don't now "run at me" or "get caught up in the surge".

...oh, & I DEFINATELY bet I earn more than you !!!

[superjohnmcginlay]

As for the trouble, in the ground was at the far end, but it seems no-one else was around Scott's and The Harvester afterwards where it kicked off big time. Massive crowd of Stokies being herded towards the train station, along the main road on the other side of that fence/hedge thing, singing some predictable Wanky Waderers song, don't think they realised Scotts was there. Some daft cow sat outside Harvester shouted 'White Army', then legged it, chant went up, their lot came right up to the fence doing the whole hard man 'come on then' thing, some pissed up Bolton chavs went right up to the fence doing the whole hard man 'come on then' thing, then to their apparent surprise, the Stoke fans did indeed 'come on', there were pint glasses, chairs being lobbed about, fence panels ripped out, I saw one skinhead, couldnt tell which 'side' he was on swing a big fence slat and break it over someone's head, blood, and all sorts. Two bouncers ran in to sort it, another legged it to get the po-po, who casually sauntered over and arrested about two people from a huuuuge melee. Completely embarrassing. It isn't a case of 'us' or 'them', rather a case of how quickly can our dickheads and their dickheads find each other. Plus side was, everybody came out to watch so we quickly ran in to an empty bar. Result.

It has been looking a bit dodgy a good 10 minutes or so before it kicked off with a bit of scuffling with coppers and stewards in that bottom corner.
Loads o coppers tearing up towards the Tesco from outside east lower n'all.
Nice lot.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Oh the game was a bit shit until Klasnic came on and livened things up a bit.

What does Petrov do apart from f*ck up with stupid flicks near our box?

[DJBlu]

If this Stoke Fan Forum thread isn't good enough reason to allow those Staffordshire inbreds to never have more a 1k tickets in any future season at the 'Bok I don't know what is. This is a throwback to the 80s when the hooligan element blighted English football and I can't genuinely remember the last time we saw violence on this scale in the Reebok, if ever! It's a disgrace and hope those involved get banned from football for a very long time!

http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/ind ... 705&page=1

I don't get what you mean?

Everyone in that forum thread isn't condoning the action of the said individual, in fact 2 of em give him a clout for doing it. There are nob heads at every club. Hopefully they'll find the guy responsible and ban him.

I know of a few Bolton fans on 3 year banning orders for away game mischief.

[hisroyalgingerness]

Oh the game was a bit shit until Klasnic came on and livened things up a bit.

What does Petrov do apart from f*ck up with stupid flicks near our box?

Petrov looked dangerous first half when we got him on the ball. He looks like he's regained a bit of pace and has a good understanding with Robinson.

What was frustrating about his error is that he's one of the experienced players. You'd expect that mistake from a Rodrigo or Alionso but not Petrov.

[General Mannerheim]

that Whitehead is a right rum looking fooker! reminds me of Jigsaw!

[Tombwfc]

There's a pretty incredible write up of the game in the NoTW.

If you wanted to know what the game yesterday would've been like had Stoke played excellent football, Gary Cahill marked Elmander and Davies out of the game, Ryan Shawcross did the same to Kenwyne Jones and Kevin 'anything but an England international' Davies should've scored from a Jermaine Pennant corner...... well, you can read that.

[TKIZ!]

There's a pretty incredible write up of the game in the NoTW.

If you wanted to know what the game yesterday would've been like had Stoke played excellent football, Gary Cahill marked Elmander and Davies out of the game, Ryan Shawcross did the same to Kenwyne Jones and Kevin 'anything but an England international' Davies should've scored from a Jermaine Pennant corner...... well, you can read that.

Sorry DSB but BLOODY JOURNALISTS!

10 seasons we've been in the Premier League and they still get it wrong

[BWFC_Insane]

I think Petrov was awful yesterday. His pace does offer an outlet but he isn't worth his place at the minute.

Agree with Pru that Taylor was an improvement although a relatively minor one. Mainly through the fact he didn't keep running and leaving the ball behind or making huge feck ups that cost us a goal.

I think Steinsson gets more grief than he deserves, he's not as bad as many make out. Thats not to say he's not a problem at times. His main issue appears to be every so often failing to follow his man and getting caught out. Happened a couple of times yesterday, their goal for one though thats more excusable than when he lost Etherington from simple off the ball runs a couple of times in the second half. But he's not AS bad as people describe at times.

Its good to have a "goalscoring" option from the bench, we perhaps need to use him for the last 15-20 minutes in tight games more often.

Overall its just good to have a team that keeps going no matter what!

[TANGODANCER]

There's a pretty incredible write up of the game in the NoTW.

If you wanted to know what the game yesterday would've been like had Stoke played excellent football, Gary Cahill marked Elmander and Davies out of the game, Ryan Shawcross did the same to Kenwyne Jones and Kevin 'anything but an England international' Davies should've scored from a Jermaine Pennant corner...... well, you can read that.

All very "what else is new" Tom. The People report rhymes on about how Stoke were the better side and we were fortunate to win. Even Stoke, head of the cloggers list when they play any of the top boys, were made to look like the victims of something. Football journalists are overpaid know-nothings with more bias than a crown green bowl.

[thebish]

There's a pretty incredible write up of the game in the NoTW.

If you wanted to know what the game yesterday would've been like had Stoke played excellent football, Gary Cahill marked Elmander and Davies out of the game, Ryan Shawcross did the same to Kenwyne Jones and Kevin 'anything but an England international' Davies should've scored from a Jermaine Pennant corner...... well, you can read that.

All very "what else is new" Tom. The People report rhymes on about how Stoke were the better side and we were fortunate to win. Even Stoke, head of the cloggers list when they play any of the top boys, were made to look like the victims of something. Football journalists are overpaid know-nothings with more bias than a crown green bowl.

bit of a sweeping statement! Good job us forum-ites are unbiased and know what we're talking about!

[hisroyalgingerness]

There's a pretty incredible write up of the game in the NoTW.

If you wanted to know what the game yesterday would've been like had Stoke played excellent football, Gary Cahill marked Elmander and Davies out of the game, Ryan Shawcross did the same to Kenwyne Jones and Kevin 'anything but an England international' Davies should've scored from a Jermaine Pennant corner...... well, you can read that.

Just read it, pretty shocking account of the game - even pointing out Stoke played it on the floor in between long throw ins, which wasn't really my recollection of the game. Comments about Kev pretty poor:

The late drama should not have been necessary had Davies proved as ineffective a saviour for Bolton as he had on his England debut midweek. The 33-year old, set up by Pennant's outswinging corner should have doubled Boltons lead but headed wide. He also passed up the chance to settle the match in stoppage time and looked anything but an international.

To be honest, the sentiments are correct, Davo should have finished both those chance off.

[jimbo]

There's a pretty incredible write up of the game in the NoTW.

If you wanted to know what the game yesterday would've been like had Stoke played excellent football, Gary Cahill marked Elmander and Davies out of the game, Ryan Shawcross did the same to Kenwyne Jones and Kevin 'anything but an England international' Davies should've scored from a Jermaine Pennant corner...... well, you can read that.

They also describe how Owen Coyle signed Paul Robinson to force out JLloyd in a different part of the paper.

[Athers]

I've just gone onto the NOTW website and I have to sign up and pay since it's Murdoch.. must be the worst value for money on the whole internet.

[hisroyalgingerness]

I've just gone onto the NOTW website and I have to sign up and pay since it's Murdoch.. must be the worst value for money on the whole internet.

I'll pay for online news the day it's different from their offline version. And when I do, it won't be the chuffin NOTW

[thebish]

Stoke must play how Stoke must play - and good luck to them - and given the stick we have had from snooty snot-faced fans and managers telling us how the game should be played - then we should be the very last to do the same to stoke...

they can play how they tossing-well like within the rules of the game.

however - the use of the long-throw down the line like kicking for territory in rugby - is a new one on me... maybe they've been doing it for the while - but it's the first time I've seen it done so blatantly...

[William the White]

If this Stoke Fan Forum thread isn't good enough reason to allow those Staffordshire inbreds to never have more a 1k tickets in any future season at the 'Bok I don't know what is. This is a throwback to the 80s when the hooligan element blighted English football and I can't genuinely remember the last time we saw violence on this scale in the Reebok, if ever! It's a disgrace and hope those involved get banned from football for a very long time!

http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/ind ... 705&page=1

I don't get what you mean?

Everyone in that forum thread isn't condoning the action of the said individual, in fact 2 of em give him a clout for doing it. There are nob heads at every club. Hopefully they'll find the guy responsible and ban him.

I know of a few Bolton fans on 3 year banning orders for away game mischief.

Spot on, DJ. Those stokies are giving real shit to the idiot who lobbed a seat into his OWN supporters on the lower tier!!!