Stoke City: Tony Pulis broadens his horizons with European coaching trip

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TONY Pulis has been inter-railing across Europe this week to see how various continental clubs operate behind the scenes.

The Stoke boss has visited four different clubs in two different countries during his trawl across central Europe.

  1. Stoke City manager Tony Pulis

    Stoke City manager Tony Pulis has been inter-railing in Europe this week.

He says the current break from first-team action gave him time to check out the approach, philosophies and facilities at several different European clubs.

"You are never too old to stop learning," he said, "and this was an excellent chance for me to see how clubs are run on the footballing side.

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"Not just the first team, but right down to the juniors. You can never learn too much.

"I'd rather not say exactly where I have been, but I haven't needed my sun glasses because it's been cold.

"Hopefully it has been well worth the effort of getting around Europe and picking up different things."

Pulis studied Italian coaching methods when his playing career was interrupted by injury.

He has also used his few periods out of management to travel abroad and watch coaching sessions in Europe and America.

"I've often said we live in a bubble in football," he continued, "and sometimes you need to break out of that when you can to go and see how others are doing things.

"I'm not saying I'm going to come back with totally different methods, but you learn things."

Pulis returns to work today after giving his players a break because it was an FA Cup weekend, with Stoke having been knocked out by Manchester City in the previous round.

"The break is to re-charge their batteries mentally as much as anything else," explained Pulis.

STOKE midfielder Matthew Lund scored on his Southend debut, after joining on loan, in a 2-1 defeat by Northampton.

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  • Profile image for bcbg16

    by bcbg16

    Wednesday, February 20 2013, 3:21PM

    “mmm defjamrcs wrong again and you must have a lot of spare time lol”

  • Profile image for Davejjohnson

    by Davejjohnson

    Tuesday, February 19 2013, 10:27PM

    “How many times you been to the Brit this season Pottyrules ? Prediction, he won't answer that one.”

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    by Davejjohnson

    Tuesday, February 19 2013, 10:21PM

    “Speil, you should thank God each and every day for making your mind work in a different way to that nutter. The fact that it works at all puts you one one up on him.”

  • Profile image for Potterspeil

    by Potterspeil

    Tuesday, February 19 2013, 7:42PM

    “Show me where I abused you 'rule? Show me where I called you racist?

    I pointed out how dismissive you were about firstly Marc Wilson 'only' playing for Ireland and then your follow up comment about Wales, Burkino Faso and Malta. These may be small countries but are still capable of producing exceptional talent (e.g. Gareth Bale). It is good to see that the players representing their home countries do so with pride and with honour and to ridicule their status on a world scale is disrespectful. You may not have been to a tournament or a game when, say, the Irish have turned up and so you will not appreciate their love of their nation and their national team.....but then again, why should you, you live in a one eyed country where there is only the US and no-one else matters.

    If you showed others respect then you may get a little back?

    As for 'immaturity and lack of knowledge' let's just say that at least I know San Sebastian is not a footballing nation and so who are you to refer to people as clowns?”

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    by Pottersruleok

    Tuesday, February 19 2013, 2:46PM

    “speil, now I realise that your mind works in a different way than most, but believe it or not I, and probably a couple of billion other people do watch football on TV which is how we know about instant replay and what it shows. I also record every single Stoke City game so I can go back and watch them and point out things that happened to clowns like you who don't seem to watch anything and are more worried about us being last on MoD, which, correct me if I'm wrong is a program on telly!
    your ability t otwist words to make them fit your bent and abusive agenda speil and deafjam, really and truly proves your immaturity and total lack of knowledge. Also on a telly note, I will say that using your twisted agenda driven logic, that the whole SKY sports team be held up for racism as they were talking about those small national teams when the new world rankings came out last week.
    your ability to twist words to make them sound like someone is saying something derogatory about a person's race, simply because their team is not rated in the football world again tells us all just how pathetically your minds work.
    sorry deafjam, the amount of red arrows you procure on here and over on the news side just shows what a serial abuser you are.”

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    by Stars-stripes

    Tuesday, February 19 2013, 9:36AM

    “Giovanni Trapattoni (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni trapatˈtoni]; born 17 March 1939), sometimes known as "Trap" or "Il Trap", is an Italian football manager and former footballer, considered the most successful club coach in the history of Serie A.
    What a treat for our Irish internationals to work with such a well respected figure in the game”

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    by defjamrcs

    Tuesday, February 19 2013, 9:07AM

    “you keep making reference to some post on the news Tool? *** are you on about? deluded mental case. I have commented on the news but nothing 'disgusting' lol.

    the fact that anyone is chosen to represent their country of birth is an honour. some teams are obviously more difficult to quaslify for. But the fact remains that whatever country you are playing for, you will play against some other top quality teams and it is the playing against top opposition in qualifiers etc, and their top players that improves a player.

    for instance when Ireland played France in the qualifiers and France only went through by Henry cheating.

    Pottertool, I would love to know what YOU have achieved in life. I maintain that it probably isnt much and the fact that you're so angry and critical of other people is just to deflect your own critical eye away from yourself and your inferiority complex.

    I suggest you try to qualify for the next U.S. final of Nutcase Tiddlywinks so that you can at least say youve tried to achieve something in your dull, negative life”

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    by Potterspeil

    Tuesday, February 19 2013, 12:00AM

    “Since football on the telly shows instant replay of ALL brilliant plays over and over again they must be just missing Whelan. However, since I have not missed but 1 game this season, funny enough my eyes are not seeing it in person either.

    Either you are at the games or you are watching it on telly pottersrule? Make your mind up fella; you can't have it both ways.

    I'll help you out with your latest embarrassing comment about San Sebastian as a national football team. It's the home of none other than................ Real Sociedad!”

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    by Potterspeil

    Monday, February 18 2013, 11:32PM

    “Where in the world exactly is San Sebastien? Never heard of them in an international footballing capacity, although there is a municipality in the northern Basque region of Spain called San Sebastian?

    I know the Basques are after independence but I am pretty sure they don't know that the city of San Sebastian has been granted international footballing status..... by non other than Pottersrule?

    (PS I think you may now have hacked off the Welsh as well as the Irish this week with your latest post? Not rate Gareth Bale then 'rule?)”

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    by Pottersruleok

    Monday, February 18 2013, 10:55PM

    “stars-stripes, jus what amazing football is Whelan playing that the cameras aren't catching. Since football on the telly shows instant replay of ALL brilliant plays over and over again they must be just missing Whelan. However, since I have not missed but 1 game this season, funny enough my eyes are not seeing it in person either. Now N'Zonzi on the other hand, except for a handful of games, most of them recently unfortunately enough, has had a very good season. Being an international does not make them great players. If someone is an international for San Sebastien, or Malta, or Wales, or Ireland or Burkina Faso, according to your logic makes them all amazing players. Now on the other hand, if someone is an international for Spain, or Brazil, or Germany or England etc, then they probably are really good.
    I know at least 3 people on this site much more disgusting and annoying and disrespectful of people in general and you deafjam, are one of them ! I saw your post over on the news side of this site and see that you are just as abusive over there as you are on this side.”

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