9 shares 28 View comments According to Tony Pulis, the young gentlemen who play for Stoke City are a high-spirited bunch of practical jokers. ‘We have a smashing dressing room,’ chuckled the Stoke manager. ‘There’s about four or five of our lads who are always up to something, and there’s always banter going on.’ He made his football team sound like the Staffordshire branch of the Bullingdon Club. To be fair to the Bullingdon, its members observe a certain decorum; trashing the odd restaurant or debagging the occasional commoner. The bantering lads of Stoke would find that terribly tame. Why, just the other day one of their number reportedly brought in a pig’s head, dripping with blood, wrapped it in the clothes of their striker Kenwyne Jones and placed it in Jones’s locker at the training ground. Jones, unsurprisingly, was deeply insulted. His religious convictions forbid the eating of pork, and he apparently regarded the prank as an offensive provoca