Sentence examples for old stoke from inspiring English sources

For all the criticism of the unloved old Stoke, there is something to live up to.

By the end it was the old Stoke, lumping it long for Peter Crouch.

We don't want to be reckless but we don't want to be like an old Stoke City either.

"Poor old Stoke lost out, really," says Mary Fox, who hosts a long-running northern soul radio show.

It stretches south of the old Stoke Lyne Lane in a bib-shaped patch of ancient oaks and hazel, ash and field maple coppice, with exotic conifers that were introduced in a flash of 1950s whimsy but are now being weeded out.

Promised a "dynamic new city centre business and leisure destination designed for people and the modern occupier", poor old Stoke ended up with a miserable box dressed in a cheap harlequin costume, a so-bad-it-might-almost-be-fashionable fusion of 80s classics Blockbusters and Connect 4. Or was it inspired by the pattern on the architect's homepage?

The 29-year-old former Stoke, Nottingham Forest and Derby forward has proved a valuable attacking force with 10 goals and nine assists in the league.

The 25-year-old former Stoke City left-back has been drafted in as cover for January signing Blair Adams, who picked up an injury in Saturday's 1-0 home defeat by Yeovil.

Wales international Gabbidon says the 55-year-old former Stoke boss - who named Dave Kemp as his new technical coach on Friday - has got the whole side working as a defensive unit.

The next year Morgan bought the old Stokes house on the corner, as a residence for his son, J. P. Morgan Jr.

While QPR remain favourites to land the 30-year-old, Stoke remain in the hunt and could look to hijack any deal as deadline day progresses.