‘I feel I confirmed I may do it on a chilly, wet night time in Stoke many occasions. It was very windy there and the followers had been all the time behind us – it was a loud stadium’: Xherdan Shaqiri busts the Stoke Metropolis fable
Has there been a extra emotive footballing query than ‘can he do it on a chilly, wet night time in Stoke?’, which turned part of the sport’s lexicon within the early 2010s?
Even 15 years on, simply listening to the phrases provides you a chill, as your thoughts is immediately transported again to the bottom previously referred to as the Britannia, the place the wind whipped round and Tony Pulis’ crew of man mountains the place only a Rory Delap throw-in away from upsetting the Premier League’s percieved pure order.
