Stoke City: Minute by Minute takes you on a tumultuous journey through the Potters' remarkable history. Relive all the breathtaking goals, heroic penalty saves, Wembley wins, game-changing incidents, sending offs and other memorable moments in this unique by-the-clock guide. From the glory days of Stanley Matthews, the celebrated Tony Waddington era, Lou Macari's beloved team, Tony Pulis's promotion to the Premier League and Mark Hughes's 'Stokealona' side, this book covers everything. Featuring goals from Freddie Steele, Jimmy Greenhoff, John Ritchie, Mark Chamberlain, Mark Stein, Mike Sheron, Peter Thorne, Ricardo Fuller and Peter Crouch, plus countless others - the book is crammed with thrilling memories from kick-off through to the final whistle. Revisit the Potters' most spectacular modern feats and learn things you didn't know about the club's incredible past - from goals scored in the opening seconds to those last-gasp, extra-time winners that have thrilled generations of fans at the Victoria Ground and Bet365 Stadium.

Stoke City Minute By Minute: Covering More Than 500 Goals, Penalties, Red Cards and Other Intriguing Facts

Sports & Outdoors

Lowe, Simon

Miscellaneous

Pitch Publishing Ltd

To Cap it All: The Autobiography of John Rudge

Rudge, John

Soccer

Packed with facts and figures as well as interviews with many of the heroes who starred in the games, this book will provide glorious memories for every Potters fan and entertain and amuse in equal measure Throughout its 150 years of history Stoke City has often been the home of the strange and bizarre as much as the sublime and glorious. This selection of the club's 50 greatest games revisits magnificent victories at Wembley, promotion celebrations, and famous triumphs over the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool, Leeds United, Arsenal, and Chelsea, as voted for by fans in an official poll. Also featured are fantastic feats of individual goalscoring, great comebacks, last ditch survival efforts, and the occasional crushing disappointment. Also in the mix are the strange tales of the game with no shots, a broken down train, the goalscoring backside, and the man who saved Stoke from relegation a couple of hours after getting married. Incredible victories over Bury, Stockport, Cardiff, Reading, and Luton also provide a wealth of fantastic and fantastical stories.

Stoke City Greatest Games: 50 Fantastic Matches to Savour

Know the Score

Stoke City: 101 Golden Greats - 1870-2001

Football (American)

Desert Island Books

To see our huge range of football books, search for DESERT ISLAND SPORT. The Second World War was one of the most turbulent periods for British football. It was an era when clubs struggled to find men to fill their eleven threadbare shirts, players laid down their lives for their country in combat, and those who remained behind performed remarkable feats. Stoke City’s Tommy Sale scored 56 goals in one season, while international star Neil Franklin regularly cycled back to his RAF base in blackout after midnight. Amidst City’s uncouth and foul-mouthed players, Lol Hamlett became a lay preacher and Frank Bowyer, one of City’s young starlets, reared pigs to feed his family. This book discloses for the first time the German bombing of the Victoria Ground, until now kept quiet. It also relates the Burnden Park Disaster in Bolton, when 33 spectators perished in a crush that was then England’s biggest footballing tragedy. But most of all, this book focuses on the personal war between a manager and his star player. Tensions mounted to such an extent that with Stoke City within touching distance of their first League Championship, manager Bob McGrory sold Stanley Matthews to Blackpool. The Second World War cost Stoke City’s players the best years of the careers. Many of them were on the brink of international caps that never came. The War deprived the club of a golden era, but created a wealth of tales and myths. Those stories are told in these pages through the eyes of those who played for, supported, administrated and wrote about the club. Stoke City were once giants of English football. Bob McGrory’s team were so good that they were one match from claiming the League Championship. The years from 1939 saw the club at war on two fronts. The first enemy was Hitler, against whose tyranny many City players were called to arms. The second enemy, according to McGrory, was star winger Stanley Matthews. Their feud simmered throughout the eight years covered by this book. In June 1947 a third enemy appeared. Sheffield United stood in the way of Stoke’s first elusive championship …

Potters at War: Stoke City 1939-47

Welcome to New Luddle, a small, self-sufficient colony tucked away in a corner of the world's largest economic superpower. Here the tomatoes are ripe, the tea is plentiful and life is perfect . or so it seems. On the dawn of his fifteenth birthday Sun Saluki contemplates his future working in the fields, providing for his community and revealing his true feelings for the outspoken Daisy Spaniel. But an unexpected event at Mrs Beagle's tea morning turns life in New Luddle upside down, forcing the residents to confront dark secrets from the colony's past - and its present.

Friday Morning with Sun Saluki

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Grosvenor House Publishing Limited

The Match of My Life series features some of each club's biggest stars looking back at the standout game in their career, as well as giving a much broader view of their time with the club.

Wolves Match of My Life: Molineux Legends Relive Their Favourite Games

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Stoke City Match of My Life: Potters Legends Relive Their Favourite Games

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