Stoke City, with Banks, came to the U. S. where it played in Cleveland, Ohio.

At club level, Banks came up with his second most famous save when spectacularly palming a vicious penalty from his England team-mate Hurst over the crossbar as Stoke defeated West Ham United in the semi final of the 1972 League Cup.

Although the group purported to represent " the autonomous working class ", when the police arrested nine suspected members of the group, only one, ( Jake Prescott, who was arrested in Notting Hill ) came from the working class ; the other eight, four men and four women ( arrested together in Stoke Newington ) were middle-class student drop-outs from the universities of Cambridge and Essex.

Anna Letitia Barbauld, author of An Epistle to William Wilberforce ( 1791 ), also came to live in Stoke Newington in 1802.

In their first home game, Stoke managed to beat Aston Villa 3 – 2, and wins also came against Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Sunderland and West Bromwich Albion.

The first goal he scored for Leeds came some time later, in October 1997, in a 3 – 1 League Cup victory over Stoke City.

It came to be used in the context of either a religious or a secondary settlement, and is one of the most common place names in England ( see Stoke ( disambiguation )).

Before the present in-cab regulations came in, British Rail experimented with 140 mph running by introducing a fifth, flashing green signalling aspect on track between New England North and Stoke Tunnel.

Stoke City came into the Northern Alliance for the 1890 – 91 season ; with their place in the Football League being taken, of course, by Sunderland AFC.

His next goal came against Stoke City with a brilliant curling header on 13 September.

His first Premier League goal for Stoke came against Birmingham City on 9 November 2010 with Whitehead scoring the winning goal in a 3 – 2 win.

His goals came in games against Oxford United, Chelsea, and Stoke City.

John de Courcy, of Stoke Courcy, in Somerset, came to Ireland around the year 1175 as part of the saxon invading forces, brought in as mercenaries working for Dermot MacMurrough, the ousted King of Leinster, to help him regain his position as King.

His successes in management came with two promotions at Swindon Town ( Fourth Division champions in 1986 and Third Division playoff winners in 1987 ), a Football League Trophy with Birmingham City in 1991, the same trophy in 1992 along with a promotion for Stoke City ( Division Two champions in 1993 ).

On 1 March 2009, Carew came off the bench to score a lob-shot volley in the 2 – 2 draw against Stoke City in the Premier League, which was later voted the team's goal of the season.

His first competitive goal for Stoke came in a 1 – 0 League Cup win at Leyton Orient on 26 August 2009.

Lishman was passed over for the 1950 FA Cup final ( which Arsenal won 2-0 ), in favour of Lewis and Peter Goring, and then just as he came back into the Arsenal first team, he broke his leg playing against Stoke City in December 1950.

Other giant killings of note came against Stoke City in 2000, Marc McGregor with a 90th minute winner, and in 1993 a win over Swansea City, with Tony Simpson netting both goals.

The January transfer window saw Hulse again linked with moves away from the club, with Wolverhampton Wanderers interested to the tune of £ 3 million, but the only concrete moves came in the form of loan bids from Premier League Burnley and Stoke City, both of which were rejected.

Later on Adebayor went on to score a further two goals, one was a penalty at Stoke and one came in a derby against Chelsea where the scores ended up 1 – 1.

He scored his first goal for the club against his old club Newcastle, which came in the 90th minute of the match to earn Stoke a point in a 2 – 2 draw.

His first appearance in the Wigan team came against Stoke City in February 2005, as a substitute replacement for Gary Teale.

Largely out of the international picture, he put in 45 games for the " Potters " as Stoke finished fourth under Bob McGrory – the club's best ever finish.

Stoke matched their record finish of fourth in the league, finishing just two points shy of champions Liverpool after losing to Sheffield United on the final day of the season.

He did take part in a fourth round League Cup hammering of Stoke City, scoring a hat-trick in an 8 – 0 victory, which was second only to the clubs biggest ever win in 1986-a 10 – 0 defeat of Fulham.

In the first season in the Premier Division the Pitmen finished in fourth position & reached the Staffordshire Senior Cup Final losing to Stoke City over two legs.

Drogba scored his fourth goal of the season, against Stoke City ; Chelsea ended winning the game 2 – 1 with a late strike from Malouda.

Drogba also played the next game at home against Stoke City where he played the whole 90 minutes and scored his fourth goal of the Premier League season when he smashed home a penalty after Nicolas Anelka was brought down by Thomas Sørensen inside the box.

For five seasons, between 1970 and 1974, the losing FA Cup semifinalists were obliged to play off for third and fourth place ; Birmingham City finished third in the 1972 FA Cup by beating Stoke City 4 – 3 on penalties following a goalless 90 minutes.

He was eligible to play for Stoke the day after his transfer in the fourth league game of the season, and made his debut coming on as a substitute for Ricardo Fuller in the 84th minute, against Sunderland at the Britannia Stadium.

He was also fourth official for both the Football League Trophy final of that year between Stoke City and Bristol City, and the 2000 FA Trophy Final, when Kingstonian beat Kettering Town 3 – 2.

Banks joined Stoke City and maintained his England place, while Shilton lost in Leicester's third FA Cup final of the 1960s ( the 1969 game against Manchester City ) and began to make his name.

After the Norman invasion of England in 1066 AD, some Norman French influences can be detected in place names, notably the simplification of ch to c in Cerne and-cester, and the addition of names of feudal lords as in Stoke Mandeville .).

He played 29 First Division games in 1933 – 34, as Stoke secured their top-flight status with a twelfth place finish.

Stoke finished the season in tenth place.

Despite playing regularly for the national side, Matthews put in 38 games for Stoke in 1938 – 39, helping them to a seventh place finish – there would not be another full season of Football League action until 1946.

The Games were originally held in 1948 by neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who organized a sporting competition involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital rehabilitation facility in Stoke Mandeville, England, taking place concurrently with the first post-war Summer Olympics in London.

Pulis took Stoke close to a play-off place, but an eventual 8th-place finish was achieved in the 2006 – 07 season.

Stoke City fans celebrate following promotion to the Premier League, 4 May 2008 Stoke won automatic promotion to the Premier League on the last day of the 2007 – 08 season, finishing in 2nd place of The Championship.

After a 2 – 1 win at Hull City, Stoke confirmed their place in the Premier League.

Stoke finished the following 2009 – 10 season in a respectable 11th place, with 47 points.

By reaching the final, Stoke qualified for the 2011 – 12 UEFA Europa League, after Manchester City confirmed a place in the Champions League.

However, the last derby match took place on 10 February 2002 and with Stoke City in the Premier League, rivalry has increased between Port Vale and other local clubs, namely Burton Albion, Macclesfield Town, Shrewsbury Town, Walsall, Wrexham, and Crewe Alexandra.

' Newington ' is one of the most common place names in England ( see Newington Green and Stoke Newington in north London ), and from 1750 the area became more important and so the informal name, from the pub at this junction, was adopted.

Stoke Mandeville was also the location of the Stoke Mandeville Games, which first took place in 1948 and are now known as the World Wheelchair and Amputee Games.

Burnley and Stoke City both entered the last match, to be played between the two teams, needing a draw for promotion ( or in Stoke's case to retain their First Division place ).

The village name ' Stoke ' derives from an Old English language word ' stoc ', which means ' place ' ( Wiki ).

* Stoke is one of the most common place names in the United Kingdom and in historical documents.

The name " Stoke Poges ": Stoke means a stockaded place.

They finished their first league season in 11th place, but avoided the dubious honour of the wooden spoon, which went to Midlands rivals Stoke.

It runs through Stoke Newington as Stoke Newington High Street and then becomes Stamford Hill High Road until Tottenham, where a gyratory system is in place.