It`s over £84k now, how much does a statue cost for goodness sake? This is the problem with crowd funds. Good problem to have. Really the money should just go to a collection of good causes in Stoke. I'm sure there are plenty of mental health charities that could do good work in Stoke easing the st...
I don't think it has been mentioned on here, but I think STAR's (and fans) donation of £5,000 towards Vale's GoFundMe page is superb and is demonstrative of the good, kind-hearted people we have connected with our Club and the community.
Proud of those fans today that stood their ground and that they didn't whimper off. It had to be done. I remember Blackpool doing the same and it eventually ended up contributing to the Indian owners selling up...,.so here's hoping. No doubt about that, but in comparison to Blackpool (read up on it...
What I don't understand is why he doesn't accept an appropriate offer now, which will include him as the primary secured creditor and run with that. Liquidation will mean he loses everything. As the main creditor, he'd be first in line when the assets get sold off. Whether he'd get more liquidating...
The EFL, FA, UK Government, FIFA, anybody else, cannot force Dai to sell. This tiny 'investment' of his is really small potatoes compared to his financial empire. I bet what is going on here is not even registering on his daily 'to do' list, whatever protests there are. What I don't understand is wh...
Lest not forget the scorer of the winning goal in the Final that year, who was also in the Mackems line up against us, went on to be a future Reading manager!
Lest not forget this is a patch and mend squad in a patch and mend season. Commonality all season has been one player who (over) performs one game is likely to be shit the next. The mis-placed euphoria on here elegising about a win and an Ince out when we get beat (or throw away a win) is so naive. ...
I’m pretty sure Francis Joseph was signed pre-season 1987 as a Gang of Four. Colin Gordon and Linden Jones included. But I can’t remember the fourth. If indeed there was a fourth? Steve Wood, Kevin Bremner and Trevor Senior all went in the summer of 87. As replacements Reading signed went down a ch...
I’m pretty sure Francis Joseph was signed pre-season 1987 as a Gang of Four. Colin Gordon and Linden Jones included. But I can’t remember the fourth. If indeed there was a fourth?
I have always been sceptical about black, grey and dark coloured kits with players not being easily picked out and merging in to the crowd especially during a dank floodlit evening game. I always remember the 6-3 Man U defeat at Southampton when Fergie changed the kit at half time citing my very rea...
Surprised the “aficionados” on here have not related the cost of the team this season with that of 2005. OK. Very, very early days this season but uncanny, if a very different set of circumstances, the similarities (at least in cost). Can someone list/post the equivalent fees (loans) Just proves the...
Reading all these comments/thoughts/memories surely does bring a lump to your throat and at least throughout the recent years of grotesque mismanagement and endless line of here today/gone tomorrow overpaid mercenaries we have those memories and achievements that cannot be taken away or forgotten. A...
I have long advocated the ‘long ball/wingers’ game. Listening to SSN today Burnley bombarded a win at Watford today using route 1. What is wrong with this approach? Opposing teams aren’t now familiar or expecting this. It’s direct and exciting. Pulsating and positive. Put the ball as often as you ca...
Mine is a very similar story to many others. First game in 1974. Intermittent STH over years. Over 70 away grounds visited. But lost the faith completely in 2016. I found my first thought on waking up on a Saturday morning was ‘Oh God. I’ve got to go to football today’ and with that realisation, I p...