Stoke City Etc.

This week’s show features an extensive interview with Stoke city Director Phil Rawlins. Listen to Phil chat about how he became a Director of the club he supported as a boy, his feelings about the Icelandic experience, his reflections on Tony Pulis and his hopes for the future.

Hugh Ferris from Key 103fm in Manchester looks back at Saturday’s match and Dominic King from the Liverpool Echo talks about Stoke’s trip to play Everton. Michael is still on holiday so our guest presenter is the author of “Exile in a Promised Land”, Steve Mifflin.

It’s all ready for you to download together with the quiz and your emails – your weekly Stoke mp3 fix.

Well we’re back from our travels and to make up for our absence we have a special bumper edition of the podcast. We look back on Stoke’s trip to Bolton with Jack Deardon of BBC Radio Manchester, look ahead to the visit of Man Utd with Hugh Ferris from Manchester’s Key 103FM and we discuss Stoke’s acquisition of the Turkish captain with our very own correspondent in Turkey. We also speak at length to chief football writer of the Express newspapers Mick Dennis who tells us how wrong he was about Stoke.

As if that’s not enough, with Michael away on holiday, we welcome not one but two guest co hosts to the show - Stokies Simon and Pete. Together with the usual emails and quiz this is just about the most jam packed show we’ve ever done.

Join us to celebrate a great start to the season by the Potters. This week we chat to Chris Cooper who was commentating on the win over Sunderland for Real Radio in the North East. We also have an extensive conversation with Gary Mellor, partner at Beswicks in Hanley, who gives us the inside track as the transfer window closes. There's also the quiz and your emails as usual as we sign off for a fortnight's break.