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HOME arrow WSC DAILY arrow August 2011 arrow As good as it got for Stoke City
As good as it got for Stoke City

Image 26 August ~ Some managers can be sniffy about the Europa League, but Tony Pulis was delighted last night as Stoke City progressed to the group stage of the competition: "It's the first time we have ever done this and it's lovely for our supporters who have backed us so magnificently over the past five years." Pulis is right to be proud of his team, but, as Jonathan Paxton wrote in our As Good As It Got series in WSC 267, Stoke's most memorable season was back in 1946-47. Had their star player Stanley Matthews been managed a little better they could have won the League

“All teams have their era,” my Grandad often tells me. “It’s just that Stoke’s came between 1939 and 1945.” Most biographies of Adolf Hitler focus on stronger crimes against humanity ahead of denying Stoke City their chance of winning silverware but few in the Potteries would argue that the club’s golden generation lost their best years to the war. Read more

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