cleavers said:
We've played you 3 times so far this season, remind us all who has the best results so far ??
We're not as easy to beat either as you seem to be thinking, we've lost just 5 in 35 games (all competitions).
We don't see you as easy to beat. We all know that you've got some fantastic players and are getting to the level where on your day, you can dole out a good thrashing on any team. However, at home we don't really have any reason to fear anybody after last season, when only Chelsea really cruised past us. The other thing is that you seem a bit like a mini Arsenal - that visage of attacking, passing football with a dodgy spine that we could utilise to transform you into halfway-line tippy tappy merchants. Can you say that in your last two games at Stoke, you've had it easy, or that you've even been the better team? Even with ten men we were still able to give you a very good game. We know that we're very likely to lose, but are hoping that if we can get right up you, we can snatch a result. We should have done it last week, we can still do it this week.
Walton is the referee while he hasn't put in any particularly bad performances against us, he always seems to preside over heavy Stoke defeats. Bad omen.
Now, who wants a bet on the Stoke player to be dodgily sent off, as is the norm in games against you?