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Stoke City Summary

The 60s were dubbed the Tony Waddington Years for the club where they fought not to be relegated and attempted to climb to the top. Tony Waddington was appointed manager of Stoke in 1960 and remained manager for 17 years. Stoke won its first important trophy in 1972 in the League Cup beating Chelsea football club at Wembley Stadium 2:1. After this historic win the club fell into the lower divisions and remained there for a number of years. However, the club did win the Football League Trophy twice, in 1992 and in 2000. In 2008 the club finally made it back into the English Premier League and at the end of the 2008/09 Season finished 12th, securing their stay in the Premiership for another year.

Stoke City Manager

The current manager of Stoke City FC is Tony Pulis. Tony Pulis has a reputation for achieving solid results on small budgets and has never had a team relegated as manager. Tony has managed Stoke twice. He has previously managed Bournemough, Gillingham, Bristol City and then Pompey. Stoke City is the fifth club he has managed. Initially Tony made sure the club was not relocated from Division One in the 2003/04 season and then he departed the club in 2005 but returned in the Summer of 2006. At the end of the 2007/08 season, Tony Pulis achieved what no other Stoke City manager has achieved by guiding the club into the English Premier League. As Stoke city manager, Tony has secured a number of high profile players including Danish goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen, striker Mamady Sidibe and the Jamaican International Ricardo Fuller.

Stoke City FC Stadium

The Potter’s played football in the Victoria Ground for 119 years and recently a newer Stadium has been built for the team. The Britania Stadium was opened in 1997 at a cost of 15 million pounds. The Britania Stadium is a 28,000 all seater stadium. The Britania Building Society sponsored the overall funding of the new stadium hence the name. Tours of the stadium are available all year round where you can visit the pitchside and dugouts, dressing rooms, executive boxes and the Stanley Matthew Lounge and other parts of the stadium.

The club resides in Stoke-on-Trent which was the hub of the pottery industry, including famous pottery firms like Wedgewood and Royal Doulton. Because of its location in The Potteries, the football club has affectionately been called the Potters.

Their home kit is red and white vertical stripes with white shorts and socks.

One of the most famous players to have emerged from Stoke City was Stan Matthews. Stan grew up in Stoke-on-Trent and started playing football for The Potters in the 1930s. After 8 years he had established a reputation as one of the greatest players on earth. Nicknamed ‘wizard of the dribble’, Stan played for the England national team. Stanley Matthews was knighted in 1965 and was the first football player to be knighted. He also won the first ever European footballer of the year award.

Over the years Stoke City fans have had a bad reputation for football hooliganism. However, in the recent years the fans have become more friendly and welcoming.

Stoke City Football Club was created in 1863 and is one of Great Britain’s oldest football club.

Stoke City was one of the original 12 football clubs which made the up the English Premier League at its conception in 1888.

Aston Villa General Info

Aston Villa Stadium

For Aston Villa, 2009-10 is its 93rd season at Villa Park, which opened on April 17, 1897 with a "friendly" against Blackburn Rovers. The match occurred one week after Villa completed a domestic double, winning the 1897 First Division and FA Cup championships.

The original capacity was 40,000.Most attendees stood in the open. Floodlights were installed in 1958. Today, the seating capacity is 42,640.

Villa Park has hosted 16 international matches in three centuries. The first occurred in 1899. The most recent occurred in 2005.

Villa Park is one of six stadiums that will host matches in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

By finishing sixth in the Premier League in 2008-09, Villa will compete in the 2009-10 Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup).

William McGregor and George Ramsey also are legendary Villans.

Aston Villa was founded in 1874 by criketers in Birmingham’s Aston District who were seeking off-season recreation.

The Villans have been in the top flight for 61 of those 74 seasons. They won two additional FA Cups (1920, 1957), one additional First Division championship (1981), five League Cups (1961, 1975, 1977, 1994, 1996), one InterToto Cup (2001), one European Super Cup (1983) and one European Cup (1982).

Since the creation of the Football League, Aston Villa has spent 88 of 101 seasons in England’s top flight.

Ramsey was Villa’s manager from 1883-84 through 1925-26, His teams won six FA Cups and five First Division championships.

From 1919-20 through 2008-09, Villa usually has fielded a competitive side. But silverware has not been as plentiful.

On May 26, 1982, Villa won the European Cup by defeating Bayern Munich, 1-0, in Rotterdam, Holland. Peter Withe scored the goal.

Villa is one of four England teams to win what is now known as the UEFA Champions League.

Villa has been a member of the Premier League, formerly the First Division, since its founding for the 1992-93 season. Villa had its best season in 1992-93, finishing in second place.

From 1888-89 through 1914-15, Villa won four more FA Cups (1895, 1897, 1905, 1913). In all of those seasons, Villa played in the First Division and won six championships (1894, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1910).

Aston Villa Football Club Manager.

Martin O’Neill brings a record of 54-45-39 into his fourth season at Aston Villa.

O’Neill, who became a coach in 1987, has a career winning percentage of more than 53 percent. He joined Villa in August 2006 after caring for his wife, who was seriously ill, for more than one year.

Prior to Villa, O’Neill had highly a successful stint at Celtic. In five seasons (2000-01 to 2004-05), Celtic won six major Scotland championships, including three of the Premier League.

In his excellent playing career as a midfielder, O’Neill helped Nottingham Forest win European Cup championships in 1979 and 1980. His 64 international appearances for Northern Ireland included being captain of the team that competed in the 1982 World Cup Final.

McGregor was the force behind the creation of the Football League for the 1888-89 season. He later became president and chairman of the Football League and chairman of the FA.

Led by forward Archie Hunter, Villa won its first FA Cup in 1887.

Villa earned the bulk of its domestic silverware in a "golden age" — 1887 through the 1914-15 season, after which football was suspended due to World War I.

Villa’s haul of domestic trophies includes seven FA Cups and seven First Division championships. The crowing achievement was winning the European Cup in 1982.