Stoke City Oatcake Forum - Obsession with Arsenal

Dan_85 · Post by **Dan_85** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:37 pm

I was quite surprised to hear that a lot of them actually don't like the style of football they play but weren't prepared to change it & risk relegation. Interesting stuff...

MegaGooner · Post by **MegaGooner** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:43 pm

Keep up the good work Dan

olgitgooner · Post by **olgitgooner** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:07 pm

[quote="Red Snapper"]Hello red snapper! What are you doing here?

Just visiting! This thread is really entertaining

What's the "oatcake" thing about?[/quote]

I married a girl from Stoke, so I know all about oatcakes.

They are pancakes made from oatmeal. A typical Stoke breakfast is bacon, sausage, tomato,egg, etc, grilled on a plate and finished off with melted Cheshire cheese. This lot is then cut up and wrapped in the oatcakes. Bloody lovely.

Oatcakes are so popular in Stoke that there are little shops which sell nothing but oatcakes.

I'm suddenly missing my first wife.

shane80 · Post by **shane80** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:35 pm

Good read that. I went to the f.a cup game last year with a stoke fan. There not all bad...honest.

mrgnu1958 · Post by **mrgnu1958** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:56 pm

olgitgooner wrote:
Red Snapper wrote:Hello red snapper! What are you doing here?

Just visiting! This thread is really entertaining
What's the "oatcake" thing about?[/quote]

I married a girl from Stoke, so I know all about oatcakes.

They are pancakes made from oatmeal. A typical Stoke breakfast is bacon, sausage, tomato,egg, etc, grilled on a plate and finished off with melted Cheshire cheese. This lot is then cut up and wrapped in the oatcakes. Bloody lovely.

Oatcakes are so popular in Stoke that there are little shops which sell nothing but oatcakes.

I'm suddenly missing my first wife.

Arsenal 1991 · Post by **Arsenal 1991** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:57 pm

I was just having another look at this forum and they've even got a 9 page thread about the barca game:

"I've been so excited for this fixture, i can hardly wait"

Read more: http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/ind ... z1FGI7F4rZ

Arsenal 1991 · Post by **Arsenal 1991** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:01 pm

Career ender for Fabregas would be nice. It would be fun watching the media squirm as they get caught between agendas for that one.

Aslong as fabregas gets his legs broke i dont give a fuck

Dan_85 · Post by **Dan_85** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:10 pm

Arsenal 1991 wrote:
Career ender for Fabregas would be nice. It would be fun watching the media squirm as they get caught between agendas for that one.

Aslong as fabregas gets his legs broke i dont give a fuck

And they wonder why they get slated in the press

I told them on there the other day that a first, small step towards them being represented in a more positive light would be to cut out cuntish comments like this. Seems they didn't listen

olgitgooner · Post by **olgitgooner** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:45 pm

They really are obsessed with us. That thread has nearly 6,000 views.

Arsenal 1991 · Post by **Arsenal 1991** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:02 pm

At the moment they've got five thread on us, on their front page. One person saying that them beating us in the fa cup semis would be the highlight of their stoke supporting life.

Dan_85 · Post by **Dan_85** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:10 pm

So much for their terrifying atmosphere. The WBA fans are dominating the fuck outta them

Hoping for Vela to grab the winner!

Arsenal 1991 · Post by **Arsenal 1991** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:12 pm

Dan_85 wrote:So much for their terrifying atmosphere. The WBA fans are dominating the fuck outta them Hoping for Vela to grab the winner!

Im sure most of them won't mind if he does, as long as he gets his leg broken.

gunner_ace · Post by **gunner_ace** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:25 pm

My mother in law is a massive potter and she said that the reason stoke hate arsenal so much dates back to the early 70's when apparently we knocked them out of the cup twice in quite dubious games (in their eyes anyway) where we got some very generous decisions from the ref / cheated (or so she says, but before my tim so ill take her unbiased word for it). She said that we were the manure of the day getting all the decisions our way to and on both occasions arsenal absolutly robbed stoke city . From then on all stoke fans have hated "the arse" but never really got a chance to show it largely due to the fact they have been languishing in lower divisions until recently.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... april-1972

Henry Norris 1913 · Post by **Henry Norris 1913** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:39 pm

so they're hanging onto a lost match 40 years ago

reminds me of hull city's brian horton fiasco. they dragged it out for as long as possible because it made them feel all important being mentioned in the same sentence as the arsenal .

aww bless

storrmin571 · Post by **storrmin571** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:04 pm

They really do have issues.

BBC Football

From Darren, London, text 8111: "I'm tired of hearing about 'physical' and 'dirty' Stoke, it's getting boring now, especially when the Fair Play league and everyone who watches with an open mind sees a different story. Only lazy journalists and fans who don't actually watch any games (Arsenal) keep rolling it out as an excuse or out of jealousy."