Chris Dunlavy

STOKE City are the EFL’s most paradoxical club - richer than Scrooge McDuck, eminently stable but completely and utterly hopeless.
As the Potters welcome their seventh manager – Mark Robins – in as many years, and another meaningless campaign meanders to its drab conclusion, the question, as ever, is why?
Why does a club backed by one of the wealthiest families in the UK and blessed with some of the best facilities in the Championship so consistently stink out the division?
Why can’t highly capable managers with a track record of success last longer than five minutes in the du...