City secured their first ever away win and double in the Barclays Premier League with a comfortable 2-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion.

Another memorable day at the Hawthorns saw strikers Ricardo Fuller and James Beattie net while Albion would flatter to deceive in front of goal.

The three points sees the Potters edge closer to survival and move up to thirteenth in the table.

The win also went down as the first on the road in the top flight for almost 25 years after the 1-0 win over Luton Town in May 1984.

Boss Tony Pulis brought Matthew Etherington into the side for Salif Diao in the only change to the side that defeated Middlesbrough at the Britannia Stadium a fortnight ago.

The match started at blistering pace and City went ahead after just two minutes when Fuller chased onto a Danny Higginbotham ball down the left before turning Shelton Martis to drill hard and low beyond Scott Carson.

It sent the travelling Stokies behind the other goal into delirium as they realised the first away victory could well be on the cards.

Carson then had to deny City a second barely two minutes after when he tipped Glenn Whelan's goal-bound free kick around the post.

The Potters continued to look the most dangerous team despite some prolonged periods of possession by the home side.

West Brom created chances but neither James Morrison's tame volley from sixteen yards or Jay Simpson's long range wayward strike worried Thomas Sorensen.

Pulis' side always looked like causing problems on the counter-attack though and neat one-touch football unlocked the Albion defence midway through the half.

Fuller, Lawrence and Whelan combined to put Etherington through on goal but the winger shot narrowly wide of the back post from a difficult angle.

Whelan then tried his luck with a left-footed strike from outside the box in injury-time as a second was sought after, but a deflection sent it the wrong side of the post after Albion had struggled to deal with a Rory Delap long throw.

City would go on to double their advantage though four minutes after the break.

Etherington's run into the box from the left wing was halted by two defenders and the ball deflected into the path of Beattie, who buried a left footed strike into the back of the net from ten yards out.

The hosts attempted to get back into game and Simpson should have really done better with a close range shot at the back post after he had brought down Paul Robinson's crossfield ball.

On the hour, Tony Mowbray threw caution to the wind with a triple substitution and replaced skipper Jonathan Greening, Robinson and the ill-effective Simpson with Roman Bednar, Robert Koren and Filipe Teixeira.

Chris Brunt now became a makeshift left back as the Baggies looked for a way back into the game but he would still be attacking the flank and his stinging left footed drive fired against the woodwork on 65 minutes.

A goalmouth scramble then followed with the ball dropping out for a goal kick after pinballing around a crowded six yard box.

Further chances were few and far between as the game petered out for the hosts to the sound of the vociferous away following.

Albion did have the ball in the back of the net with nine minutes remaining but Koren's long range shot was disallowed after an offside Marc-Antoine Fortune deflected it into the opposite corner of the goal.

Pulis brought on Danny Pugh, Richard Cresswell and Seyi Olofinjana in the latter stages with Cresswell playing as a lone front man as the side showed their dogged determination to record another clean sheet.

Great blocks by Whelan, Pugh and Abdoulaye Faye thwarted any hopes of a shot on target let alone a consolation for West Brom before the referee blew the full-time whistle on a memorable afternoon.