Tony Pulis is the manager of Stoke City who are due to go into their third season in the top flight after being away for 23 years before 2009. Pulis has been the manager of several clubs during his career with varying success and is in his second spell as manager at the Britannia Stadium where he will be hoping to keep up his record of never having been relegated as a manager. Pulis was a young manager when he took over as player-manager at Bournemouth in 1992 and from there he has been in charge at clubs such as Gillingham, Portsmouth, Bristol City and Plymouth in the various English divisions.

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Pulis had some solid but unspectacular results in his first stint as Stoke City manager with a couple of mid-table finishes in the Championship before being sacked in June 2005. It was second time round that Tony Pulis bought success to the Potteries and he took charge for the second time in June 2006 and immediately improved the side and had a good first season in charge. It was to be the following season that Pulis hit the jack-pot however, when his side finished second and secured automatic promotion back to the top flight after a long absence away.

Stoke managed to surprise a lot of teams that season and fully deserved their promotion as they finished the campaign in brilliant style. After a solid 2010/11 season stoke finished in a respectable 13th place in the Premier League. However, the highlight was without a doubt reaching the FA Cup Final for the first time in their history.

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Pulis has done an excellent job with Stoke City to get them into the Premier League and they will be aiming to improve on their 13th place finish last season. Due to his success with the club Tony Pulis is in quite a strong position as Manager but as any football fan knows it is vital for a team to remain in the Premier League and should The Potters be relegated it will be interesting to see how the owners and fans react. Another factor to take into account is that Pulis has a record of not remaining at the same club for too long so although there is no obvious sign of trouble at Stoke it is worth keeping an eye on the situation.

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