Stoke City: Premier League's loudest fans can give City a real advantage

STOKE City officially have the loudest fans in the Premier League. How the team needs each and every one of them to help them stay up this season, writes Martin Spinks.

This comprehensive defeat was further evidence, if any were needed, that Stoke are going to have to rely on their home form if their long-awaited return to the top-flight is to last more than a season.

Stoke, as you would expect, battled to the end at the City of Manchester Stadium, but they have found the gulf in class much tougher to negotiate away from home than they have at the Brit.

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