January 22, 2006

REPORT: Stoke 0-3 City


Have you got any grandchildren?

If not, then you’ll miss out on so much. The joys of watching them maintain your family names and traditions long after you’ve gone. The delight on their faces when they open their Christmas presents. And the swell of pride you’ll feel when you tell them you saw City become A Bonafide Championship Club.

Oh, for more days like this. Peter Taylor’s men were on the sort of cracking form that even the most dominant points of the two preceding promotion campaigns rarely hit. Every man jack of the Tigers side played a pivotal role in one of the most stunningly one-sided and ecstatic awaydays of recent memory.

And it was in the Championship.

It would be churlish to suggest that part of the reason City were so awesome and inspirational was because their opponents were quite awful. True, but City have won games from the garbage bin this season and lost to teams who wouldn’t look out of place in a skip at other points. You pays your money, you takes your choice.

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Filed under: Match Reports — Matt @ 1:48 pm

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