***Stoke City Official Matchday Thread***

Wow brilliant
Doherty I am pleased to say had a great game as did most of the heroes in red.
Stoke's number 31 (the ginger lad) was the stand out player for them
There was to my mind was no great difference between the teams, Stoke looked like a good div 4 team.
The Palmer penalty claim early doors 2nd half was a dive, he was looking for a pen when in my opinion he should of gone on for a shot.
Bez tried hard but not a lot went right for him today.
Back 4 played well but Sesay's flick in his on half nearly cost us.
Hope the idiots with the smoke bombs pay the fine that will surely come the clubs way.
Bring on the next victims

I Love this football club..Town Mead to tonight, what a journey. The attendance may have been lower than Norwich but there were a few more on the pitch afterwards to cerebrate, that's for sure. Fantastic atmosphere. Fantastic game in which we thoroughly deserved to win tonight. Anyone else chuckle at the 'Happy Travel' Coaches taking the away fans back home? More like unhappy travel. what an awful season they are having and what a season this is turning out to be for Crawley. Hard to pick a MOM so I think fans, club and players should all share it equally.

Superb performance. We more than matched a very average ‘Championship’ Stoke who are in free fall and might do a Sunderland and get relegated to League One! The only disappointment was that we didn’t win the game in 90 minutes which we deserved to do!

Stoke goal mid way through the first half was somewhat against the run of play from a well work corner and we deservedly equalised soon after to go in HT 1-1.

Second half Stoke came at us from the start, but the red card mid way through the half pushed the momentum back to us and there was only gonna be one team that was gonna score a wining goal.

Penalties were all well taken. 5 out of 5!!! Although Ollie was a bit lucky with the winning penalty which the keeper got a strong hand to and should have saved! Who cares though, we won! Great scenes at the end.

Let’s take the momentum into the league and follow it up with a win against Walsall!

Next round draw on Sky TV after the MK Dons v Liverpool match Wednesday. We are in the last 16, What do you want in the next round?
Watford, Man C, Southampton, Leicester, Everton, Arsenal, Colchester, Oxford or West Ham, MK Dons or Liverpool, Sheff Utd or Sunderland, Brighton or Aston Villa, Chelsea or Grimsby, Burton or Bournemouth, Wolves or Reading, Man U or Rochdale

Colchester at Home?
Liverpool at Home would be amazing

There's an outside chance we'll be playing Stoke in the league next season.

The warning had already been given, the club is bound to be fined for a second offence so thanks a lot to the tossers responsible, do clubs have to search every supporter on entry in future to stop this moronic behaviour?