Tags: Soccer Club Season.
The 1961–62 season was Stoke City’s 55th season in the Football League and the 22nd in the Second Division.Attendances were now at a worrying all time low and so the Stoke board and manager Tony Waddington decided something needed to be done to bring the supporters back to the Victoria Ground. And Waddington pulled off a master stroke after paying £3000 to Blackpool for the returning 46-year-old Stanley Matthews.