Rob Parker | February 27, 2010
Arsenal youngster suffers horrific injury
Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey suffered a suspected broken leg in Arsenal’s 1-3 victory over Stoke City. The Welsh youngster was caught late by Potters’ defender Ryan Shawcross as the duo went for a 50/50 ball leaving his leg in a sickening state.
The Stoke defender was sent-off for the tackle.
Arsene Wenger [...]
Rob Parker | February 25, 2010
Time to throw the towel in
Last night’s FA Cup replay between Stoke and Manchester City was forced when the Potters grabbed an equaliser at Eastlands from a Rory Delap throw.
Indeed, before the two sides met in their recent league game, Shay Given said of Delap’s throw: “You see it every week on Match of the [...]
Rob Parker | February 19, 2010
Smaller is better for Irish international
Stoke midfielder Glenn Whelan was thanking his lucky stars that Little Glenn isn’t any bigger after Patrick Vieira’s groin-high tackle on Tuesday.
Whelan reckons he was spared too much pain because his package wasn’t big enough to feel the full force of the Manchester City star’s studs.
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Rob Parker | February 17, 2010
Pat to the future
Manchester City midfielder Patrick Vieira signalled he is settling back in to life in the Premier League with his first nasty foul. The Frenchman planted his studs into Stoke midfielder Glenn Whelan’s nuts in a petulant challenge.
Arsene Wenger said: “I did not see the incident because… oh, nothing to do with me [...]
Rob Parker | February 15, 2010
Stoke defender’s FA Cup disaster
Ryan Shawcross managed to hand Manchester City the lead in their FA Cup clash with Stoke when he not only managed to send an air-kick in the direction of the ball as he tried to make a clearance, but also then head the ball to keep it in play and provide [...]
Rob Parker | February 2, 2010
Cutting through the exotic monikers of Premier League imports so you can judge the player, not the name
Stoke’s token luxury player has a luxury name to match. OTP reader Can Ozmen has very kindly offered up this translation. He jokes: “Fitting name for an Apache leader, isn’t it?”
Quite, although Big Chief Sittingonthebench might be more [...]
Rob Parker | December 23, 2009
Well, an assistant manager
Peter Reid told the December edition of FourFourTwo: “I saw some ping-pong action in 1984 when Howard [Kendall] took us over there [to Thailand] after we won the FA Cup. It’s pretty impressive what those ladies can do with a ping-pong ball and no table-tennis table.”
As for today’s reports in The Sun, [...]
