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Every Step Along The Way - A Stoke City Podcast
Match Preview - Coventry(H) - 10/8/24
Season 4, Ep. 217
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Dan, Mike and Tom are here to finally kick off the 2024/25 season by looking ahead to the curtain raising opener at home to Coventry.
There is plenty of club news and transfer updates, if not anything completed, as well as a summer update on youth and women's team before the pod ends with a new look snappy quiz.
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