Michael Owen has joined Stoke City on a one year contract.
This ends speculation he would rejoin old club on Merseyside, Joke City.
Owen was persuaded to join after a 30 minute conversation with life-long Stoke City fan and comedian Nick Hancock.
Stoke fans said it was the best ever episode of 'Hancock's Half Hour'
The deal was finally completed three days after the Transfer Window closed...
Liverpool have turned down an approach from Newcastle to get Andy Carroll on a season long loan.
They refused the deal after Chelsea turned down an approach from Liverpool to take Fernando Torres on a season long loan.
Chelsea turned down the offer after Shanghai Shenhua turned down an approach from Chelsea to take Didier Drogba on a season long loan.
Shanghai Shenhua turned down the app...
A heavily moustached QPR team had to man up and suck up the hairy banter when they fronted up against an ugly Stoke side on Saturday.
"I told the lads before the game that they looked like a load of gay porn stars and that The Britannia Stadium i...
The unseated members of the BNP who lost in the recent local elections have claimed that had they not been voted out of office, Stoke City Football Club would have won the F A Cup against Manchester City.
Leader of the group, Noel Himmler said tha...
Voting in the Eurovision Song Contest has once again come under the spotlight as Peter Coates, chairman of Stoke City football club, who were defeated in the 2011 FA Cup final, claims voting in the event is a complete farce.
And entertainment pund...
In a terse pre-trading note posted on the London Stock Exchange today, it was announced that Manchester City has purchased Stoke City for an undisclosed sum.
"Apparently the deal was done overnight at a secret location on the M5 motorway", gasped...
It looks like it's "squeaky bum" time for Manchester City fans as the days leading up to the FA Cup Final rumble slowly by.
The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that City have already won the cup following their shock semi-final vict...
Wembley - Kate Middleton will wear the 'lucky knickers' at the FA Cup Final on 14 May, it has been revealed.
A secret royal prenup clause sees the FA President's wife-to-be agreeing to present the trophy sporting the hidden Stoke City mascot.
A...
Rumours are abounding that Stoke City manager, Tony Pulis, has done a deal to ensure that Stoke win the FA Cup. However, the beleaguered Stoke boss has denied any such deal has occurred.
"There's absolutely no truth in the rumour at all," said Pul...
Stoke City's preparations for tonight's clash with Arsenal were disrupted by the news that midfield mastro Rory Delap is facing the prospect of missing the rest of the season after going into hospital this week for surgery on his shoulder.
A spoke...
Continuing our increasingly popular series "Things You'd Rather Do Than".
Today we present "Things You'd Rather Do Than.....Watch Stoke City".
1. Get an enema.
2. Tidy up your sock drawer.
3. Tidy up someone else's sock drawer.
4. Pull your nose hairs out.
5.Try to evacuate your bowels when your piles are playing up.
6. Get the snip without an anaesthetic,
7. Watch a rerun...
Stoke City's Britannia Stadium certainly lived up to its billing as the Premier League's noisiest arena as the Manchester United roadshow swept into town.
A pulsating encounter saw United take the lead courtesy of a spectacular back-header by Unit...
Ryan Shawcross, the Stoke City hatchetman who poleaxed the Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey on Saturday, and was then selected for the England squad to face Egypt at Wembley on Wednesday, has said that "there probably is a bad bone in my body".
Pot...
Stoke City football club, currently languishing precariously in 18th place in the Premier League, and undergoing something of a crisis at the moment, have unveiled their new shirt sponsors - the British National Party (BNP).
Stoke, in the Potterie...
Ricardo Fuller, the Stoke City striker given a straight red card for slapping one of his teammates during yesterday's 2-1 defeat at West Ham, has claimed that the incident arose out of an innocent case of mistaken identity, it has been reported.
F...
Delap-idated Arsenal take on Villa this Saturday with new hope following last week's defeat by Stoke City.
Up the Arsenal
Still smarting from the shock defeat Arsend Wenger commented today, 'Although I didn't see the two goals that Stoke did sc...
There was chaos at the Britannia Stadium this afternoon when Everton boss David Moyes was sent from the dugout during his side's visit to Stoke, after the referee spotted him wearing a kilt!
Moyes, who is Scottish, was deemed by referee Alan Wiley...
England's greatest-ever goalkeeper, Gordon Banks, met up with his arch-enemy, Pele, again yesterday, for the unveiling of a statue of himself at the Britannia Stadium, home of Premiership newboys, Stoke C...