Tag: Wilson Palacios
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Burnley 0-0 Stoke City
A bore draw in the end, however our highest even Premier League finish at 9th and points total. Even more impressive when you consider the amount of injuries we have had to key players. Well done Mark Hughes and the coaching team. Final home game of this season is against…
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Stoke City 3-1 Wrexham FA Cup 3rd round
At one nil down I did think ‘here we go again…’ losing to lower league teams. Luckily a late goal surge courtesy of Arnie and two from Stephen Ireland saved our blushes. Wrexham deserved a draw really although not complaining! Fourth round draw is on Monday 5th January. Transfer wise…
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Man City 0-1 Stoke City
What a result! A storming individual goal by Mama Diouf who ran almost the whole length of the pitch before putting the ball into the net between Joe Hart’s legs. A good all round team performance and in particular Ryan Shawcross was immense at the back. Begovic Shawcross Wilson Pieters Bardsley; Whelan; Walters (Odemwingie –…
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Kitson retires, Palacios fails…
Stoke drew their first pre-season friendly in Germany 1-1 against Borussia Monchen-gladbach with Peter Crouch getting Stoke’s goal. Robert Huth is back in action and the World Cup players (bar Palacios) will join the squad this week having had extra time off. Bojan could still join from Barcelona although other…
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Palacios sees red!
First Stoke player to be seen in the World Cup was Wilson Palacios playing for Honduras against France. Stoke fans ran a Twitter sweepstake as to when he’d get booked and he went one better being sent off just before half time! France took the lead from the resulting penalty.…
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Four teams I will be following in the World Cup…
As there is no Scotland in the World Cup finals (my dad’s to blame as he got me into the World Cup back in 1978 supporting Scotland) I will be following the fortunes of the four nations with Stoke City players in their ranks. First up Honduras who feature Wilson…
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Chelsea away in the FA Cup 4th round
Nice easy winnable game then with Chelsea away! Will be a tough game and realistically a draw for a replay at the Britannia stadium. Looks unlikely we will see any new faces at the club this week according to Mark Hughes at his recent press conference. He also dismissed the…
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Huth back; Hughes fined and Palacios off?
Robert Huth has tweeted tonight he’s back in training tomorrow, great news for Stoke! Manager Mark Hughes has been fined £8,000 by the FA over his misconduct charge which he didn’t contest. Jamie Ness has joined Leyton Orient on a 28 day emergency loan. He’s made one subs appearance since…
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Squad numbers announced
The club have announced the new squad numbers and you can check them here New signings Erik Peters gets the number three shirt with Marc Muniesa having the number five shirt and Brek Shea gets the number 11 shirt. The players are back for pre-season trainign and are off to…
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