If everybody played the game like Manchester City, football would be dead within 2 years. It's boring, tear-inducing nonsense that's enough to turn you off the game forever. Again, I refer you to my list of people who actually 'enjoy' tippy-tappy.
Firstly, supporters blindly praising everything their team does, secondly people who don't actually have to watch that sort of muck, thirdly pretentious idiots who aren't worth paying attention to and finally journalists more interested in dining at the same restaurants as the best paid players than actually watching football. I can only assume that those criticising Stoke's style of play have never actually watched us and certainly didn't pay any attention to the first half of Saturday's game. Or the Football first highlights, for that matter. Or the Match of the Day highlights. Or any of our home games against you since our promotion.
Watching Stoke play is a breath of fresh air. A typical Stoke match is like the final minute or so of the 1812 overture, rejoicing as prima donnas from across the world find out how football was supposed to be played, leaving the Britannia Stadium pitch battered, bruised and all the better for having experienced footballing utopia.
By the way, the chap going on about Man City always being better than Stoke throughout all time: Stoke City are one of the 12 most important football clubs in the world. Well, I say twelve, there's only eleven of us left now because the FA shamefully allowed Accrington FC to go out of business. Don't pretend that money buys you our kind of history.
