STOKE are threatening to break all kinds of club disciplinary records – for all the right reasons.

City have now gone four league and cup games without a single booking – that's 361 minutes since Danny Pugh was cautioned for a foul in the 119th minute of the extra-time FA Cup victory over Man City on February 24.

Four games without a booking is the best since going three without a yellow card in February/March 2003.

And it's not only the best sequence in more than 300 games under Tony Pulis – but the best under any Stoke manager since the turn of the century.

You have to go back to November/December 1996, during Lou Macari's second spell as manager, for the last time Stoke went four games without seeing yellow.

WORK to modify the Britannia Stadium and free up more seats from the segregated area of the South Stand explains the Britannia's record gate last weekend.

A crowd of 27,598 crammed into the ground for the 0-0 draw with Villa, almost 100 up on the full-house figure of 27,500. That nudged Stoke's average for the season up to 27,072 – 12th out of the Premier League's 20 clubs.

Stoke's record crowd at the Britannia remains the 28,218 turning up for the FA Cup tie with Everton in January 2002.