YOU know those moments in life when you see something so extraordinary that it makes your mouth drops open?
Picture the scene. A man not knowing the score in his team's match catches a glimpse of Sky Sports News at about 4.30pm.
The words ' GOAL: Seyi Olofinjana, Stoke 2 Arsenal 0' flash before his eyes.
I repeated that scoreline aloud in front of a bar of people who probably thought I was a complete loony.
This surely is the day that Stoke City truly arrived as a Premier League team.
They sent out a message to rivals that this bunch of players believes that they can stay in this league.
As anyone who read my preview will know, I half worried that a Gunners team annoyed at letting a two goal lead slip against Spurs would make Stoke pay the price.
Instead, Ricardo Fuller goes on proving the national media's football experts wrong. Five goals in 10 games.
Now you might think that all of those people who dubbed Stoke the 'new Derby' three seconds after our promotion was confirmed would do a bit of backtracking.
Not a bit of it. Take it from me folks (as a journalist myself), there's only one way to get those twits to admit they were wrong - bombard their email inboxes.
If anyone out there kept the offending articles, let's run a campaign. All we have to do is take the reporter's name, get their email address and send them an email.
An army of Stokies asking the question: 'do you accept you were wrong to call Stoke City the new Derby County?' would keep the swines busy.
We could call it the City Are Back campaign. I'll happily back it.
The problem clubs like Stoke face is that most of the people writing about them for national newspapers really wish we weren't here.
It was really nice for them sitting there, munching the prawn sandwiches blathering on about the Big Four and swooning with excitement over them.
Never mind that this league is far more predictable than the one we played in last year. And as a result less interesting than it could be.
That's why you often get the impression that they turn up with the report already half written.
You know the kind of stuff - 'bombarded the penalty area', 'not very pretty to watch.'
And they drool over West Brom's ability to last 50 minutes against Manchester United before getting roundly stuffed.
So if you're with me fellow Potters, the City Are Back campaign starts now.
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