Pulis return on the cards...

[Tom Joad]

No issue with Stoke since Pulis left them.
And DK more than welcome on here.

Cheers BC.

I liked Stoke when I lived there (people are very friendly (apart from some of their football supporters not you DK) but it suffers like the Black Country with Lookbackitus and gets trapped with longing for past glories rather than moving forward and reinventing itself. It’s fortunate to have a University to make it more cosmopolitan and outward looking but unless like ourselves it modernises and is given funding from national government it’ll continue to blame everything and anything for its current malaise.

Reckon you are right, DH. On the occasions I've worked there I found the people very friendly and there are many, many similarities to the Sandwell and Dudley areas. 
Re the football team, I don't have any strong feelings either way since we finally shook off that bogey.