Mark Holmes (@Homzy) profile picture

Head of Sport and Gaming at LADbible Group. Also a husband, dad and Stoke City season ticket holder.

Stockport
Joined August 2008
Another awful season draws to a close and everyone's focus will quickly turn to all the players they want rid of. But this summer I pray we DON'T have a firesale. Try to keep as many as possible of the first team and spend on a few difference makers to push some to the bench.
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First bit of silverware for my lad tonight. Even better than a Stoke win! Three assists from defence too. Smashed it!
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Loved that. We should have been out of sight, not 2-0 down, but we've seen good performances completely evaporate after conceding in the past so I give them massive credit for the 90 mins. And mar lady secretly videod me and the lad watching the pen which made it even better!
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I'm just the vessel, FM, just the vessel!
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Prescient 🔴⚪
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Get yourself in the mood for today by watching the greatest football montage ever created. Come on you rip roaring Potttterrrrrrrsss! youtu.be/YbG_oDESCvI
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Two in two for Surridge FFS. 'Incredibly clinical'. Just what is it about Stoke and strikers? Now it's Maja's turn: he's scored one league goal (from a yard) in 15 games, but you just know he'll score a load for someone else if we don't sign him! nottinghampost.com/sport/foo…
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Stoke City: Doing what you don't expect since 1863. Excellent today from back to front. Goodness knows why those kind of solid performances have been so hard to come by at home...
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If you want to hear me use the word "rancid" in relation to Stoke, then you've come to the right place 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=69F_pHDp…
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One of these screengrabs shows the defensive stats of a midfielder who definitely isn't a defensive midfielder and needs to be replaced. The other shows the career defensive stats of a player who fans seem to think is coming in to replace said player as a 'proper' DM 🤔
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And I didn't even mention this!
Replying to @TongyBRFC86 @Rovers
At least yer man knows
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This is class. His mum's Stokie-Chilean accent is amazing! And I'm glad to hear him pronounce Brereton how everyone in Stoke would pronounce it - Breertun. So where's all the Bre-re-ton come from?! youtu.be/v056UH3r7n8
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Enjoyed this from @PeteSmith1983. On the Xausa one, I've probably told this story before, but a couple of minutes into that game a bloke sat behind us, tapped my dad on the back and asked, "who's that up front for us?" That bloke was Peter Thorne. stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/fo…
Stoke have missed 23 (twenty-three) big chances in 11 games. Crikey O'Reilly. football365.com/news/an-inte…
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