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SLEUTH O’NEILL INVESTIGATES THE FINE MARGINS TO PUSH POTTERS h2@FOCUS ON STOKE’S SURVIVAL FIGHT

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The LeaguePaper Team
2 February 2020

By John Wragg

IT JUST seemed like fi ve hours watching Stoke draw 0-0 with Millwall a few weeks back. But glutton for punishment Michael O’Neill actually spent fi ve hours going through the video.
That gives an idea of the detail, and the dedication, it has taken over the past three months to improve Stoke from basket case to a team with a good chance of staying in the Championship.
Stoke were bottom and six points adrift of s a f e t y w h e n O’Neill, left, took over and had won only two of their first 15 league games.
Nathan Jones had looked more and more frantic in his fr...

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