Stoke and I
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Stoke and I: The Nineties charts the fortunes of Stoke City Football Club through the decade that spawned Britpop, Euro 96 and Cool Britannia. Key moments such as the title-winning season of 1992/93, the Autoglass Trophy victory and the emotional farewell to the Victoria Ground are recounted through the eyes of a fan growing up in the last decade before football changed beyond recognition. Memories of players and matches, from the great to the awful, sit alongside hilarious tales of playground Potteries derbies, embarrassing school football trials and the author's attempts to become pen pals with Jon Dreyer. Featuring selected highlights from Neil James's popular 'Trouserdog' column in The Oatcake fanzine, plus a wealth of new material and new insights from key figures such as Lou Macari, Mike Sheron and Peter Coates, Stoke and I: The Nineties is a personal take on a fascinating period in the history of England's second-oldest league club.
Neil James contributes the popular 'Trouserdog' column to The Oatcake fanzine, and all the Stoke City match previews to the Online Betting Guide. A number of his short stories have appeared in literary magazines such as The Fiction Pool and Literally Stories, and he was shortlisted in The Potteries Prize for Fiction in 2017. Neil has been attending Stoke matches for 32 long and mostly painful years.