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ive noticed that teams that go for us and play fast pressing rough footy like your Stokes, Wolves and 2nd half yesterday Everton we really dont like it Too many players go missing when it gets tough and i think Pulis knows this and why next week at Wembley will be a physical game if we stand up to them and not wimp away.

If we pass the ball, thay will get tired trying to do it & we will fuck them up the arse.

The good thing about Wembley is the size (and width) of the pitch, it plays to our advantage.

we will need a strong ref, who is it does anybody know.

yorkieblue wrote:we will need a strong ref, who is it does anybody know.

The drunken old sod from Stretford's favourite ref. (Martin Atkinson)

whats his record with us, isnt he baconfaces time keeper.

Ted Hughes wrote:If we pass the ball, thay will get tired trying to do it & we will fuck them up the arse.

Yep completely agree, we did this to an extent at the start of the second half yesterday, even after Moyes had had the chance to wind them up.

Dameerto wrote:The good thing about Wembley is the size (and width) of the pitch, it plays to our advantage.

i'm sure i read somewhere that our pitch is bigger?

still, we've not done too badly at home.

You bet your left bollock Stoke will absolutely flood the box with crosses at every opportunity as we are inept at dealing with them.

Maine Road/Coms are the largest pitches. The old Wembley pitch was bigger however the current one is 115 x 75 yards which makes it 1 x 2 yards smaller than the current pitch at CoMS ..... FACTfans

Chinners wrote:Maine Road/Coms are the largest pitches. The old Wembley pitch was bigger however the current one is 115 x 75 yards which makes it 1 x 2 yards smaller than the current pitch at CoMS ..... FACTfans

.......and probably twice the width of Stokes.

Arjan Van Schotte wrote:

Dameerto wrote:The good thing about Wembley is the size (and width) of the pitch, it plays to our advantage.

i'm sure i read somewhere that our pitch is bigger?

still, we've not done too badly at home.

compared to Stoke's, I dont know how big theirs is but I would guess it's narrower than ours at least.

here's the top 20 biggest pitches taken from an article 3 years ago:


1. Manchester City, City of Manchester Stadium, 116 x 77 yards, 8932
2. Manchester United, Old Trafford, 116 x 76 yards, 8816
3. Blackburn Rovers, Ewood Park, 115 x 76 yards, 8740
4. Everton, Goodison Park, 112 x 78 yards, 8736
5. Aston Villa, Villa Park, 114 x 75 yards, 8550
6. Middlesbrough, Riverside, 114 x 75 yards, 8550
7. Arsenal, Emirates Stadium, 114 x 74 yards, 8436
8. Derby County, Pride Park, 114 x 74 yards, 8436
9. Reading, Madjeski Stadium, 111 x 76 yards, 8436
10. Sunderland, Stadium of Light, 114 x 74 yards, 8436
11. Wigan Athletic, JJB Stadium, 114 x 74 yards, 8436
12. Portsmouth, Fratton Park, 115 x 73 yards, 8395
13. Chelsea, Stamford Bridge, 110 x 75 yards, 8250
14. Fulham, Craven Cottage, 110 x 75 yards, 8250
15. Liverpool, Anfield, 110 x 75 yards, 8250
16. Birmingham City, St. Andrews, 110 x 74 yards, 8140
17. Newcastle United, St. James’s Park, 110 x 73 yards, 8030
18. Tottenham Hotspur, White Hart Lane, 110 x 73 yards, 8030
19. Bolton Wanderers, Reebok Stadium, 110 x 72 yards, 7920
20. West Ham United, Boleyn Ground, 110 x 70 yards, 7700

And Stoke's is 100 by 64 metres (110 by 70 yd)

So not much in it really.

ten per cent narrower so statistically significant if those figures are anything other than nonsense. I assume the league has minimum requirements as well as maximum.

Stoke will bombard us with free kicks, Delap throw-ins- muscle us-if we dnt stand up we will bummed !

stoke are a bloody good team that can actually mix it up. if their a-game (flooding the opposition penalty area) isn't working they can let the strikers sit back and become playmakers for the wingers (hence the last 15 mins at the britannia when they played us earlier this season).

original post certainly has a point about us not liking it up us. second half yesterday you'd have thought your zabaleta's and de jongs would have thrived but for some reason they struggled. this baffles me. i think stoke will be too pumped up and pick up bookings all over the place first half next week.

Wembley is : 115 yards (105 m) long by 75 yards (69 m) wide - slightly narrower than the old Wembley.

According to the BBC a football pitch can be as narrow as 50 yards:


Guess that explains all the local park pitches where the 18 yard line is only about 6 yards away from the corner flag.

MaineRoadMemories wrote:here's the top 20 biggest pitches taken from an article 3 years ago:

4. Everton, Goodison Park, 112 x 78 yards, 8736
15. Liverpool, Anfield, 110 x 75 yards, 8250
17. Newcastle United, St. James’s Park, 110 x 73 yards, 8030
18. Tottenham Hotspur, White Hart Lane, 110 x 73 yards, 8030
19. Bolton Wanderers, Reebok Stadium, 110 x 72 yards, 7920

These 5 are the ones that surprised me the most. I always thought Goodison is quite small ground, definitely thought Anfield would've been bigger.
I also thought St.James''s park was a lot bigger and same goes to WHL & reebok. other than that the list looked pretty much as expected

I think our problem is the same as Arse, no plan B. When plan A works we are awesome, if it doesn't, we can struggle