stoke is a football club in the north midlands,they wear red and white and play the long ball game, they have a manager called tony pullis who runs around and shouts a lot and wears a cap like danny from the bash street kids.they sing a tom jones song, the city is rough and they have a firm called the naughty forty, sasha dj'd at shelleys for a bit and the citys main industry was making pots. and that my friends is it. thats stoke

well that just won't do for a preview AM you're sacked. martin can you do any better?

After a week of up's and very big downs the up's the window signings and not losing our better players. The downs the awful display against Notts County just total disgrace from a so called EPL team and that's not to take anything away from County the team that wanted it more over the two games went through.

Now back to the grind of the EPL and the two worse teams on form go head to head at Sunderland and if recent performances are to go by it could seem along 90. Our recent games in the EPL - Wolves played well enough to get the points, Blackburn up there with the most utter shite games of football i have had the misfortune to part cash for, Everton dominated for most of the game but looked like Stevie Wonder in front of goal.

So Admiral Ackbar’s boys came, jumped up when they scored, conned the ref into allsorts (although yeah he was as bad for them first half) and took the three points as woeful finishing and poor marking cost us dear. All of a sudden it feels like squeaky bum time again but as I write these notes on deadline day, the signing of Victor Moses AND the Copa Libertadores top scorer with nowt going out will be a welcoming fillip even though they can’t play Tuesday. Check this shit out Bo Selecta: Click Here. Meanwhile, the magic of the cup returns to the DW Stadium on Tuesday night as the oldest professional football club in the world arrive in town for a Fourth Round FA Cup replay.

Everyone wanks over Everton. "Oooh look at their ground isn't it a traditional football. ground.", "Oooh look at their supporters. how loyal, how loyal." and "Oohhh they play in blue and white." and "Ooooohhh look at that they are sponsored by Hafnia."

And to be fair all of the above is true. they have got good support and a blue kit and a football ground that is just off the Lancs and to be honest they piss all over Latics in every department they'll beat us 4-0 and have supporters all over the ground and sing songs about history,tradition and Z-Cars however none of this matters and is all irrelevant because, if we...