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Reading V Port Vale: Searching for that Young Soul Rebel
Saturday 30 August, 2025 We roll. We roll because the road is ours, and the road is all there is. No gods, no maps, no meaning—just the hum of the engine and the beat of our hearts. Camus asked, “Should… Continue reading
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The Best Of All Possible Draws! Port Vale V Arsenal
The mechanics of the Carabao Cup draw, like the workings of the universe, are not for mortal minds to comprehend. Balls were drawn from a jar with all the solemnity of a village fête tombola. And lo! The first name… Continue reading
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Birmingham City 0-1 Port Vale: We Had Joy, We Had Fun
Carabao Cup, 2nd Round, St. Andrews Park, Birmingham Tuesday 26 August 2025, 19:45. The good ship Valiant rolls on, rolls on like a dream in the fog, like a beat-up Cadillac cruising through the third round of the Carabao Cup… Continue reading
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Port Vale 0-1 Doncaster Rovers: Our Grim Smile
Saturday 23 August 2025, Vale Park, Burslem. Ah, there it is. That look on the faces on those adventurers from Doncaster on reaching the mother town. It tells us everything we need to know. The dawning realisation that they do… Continue reading
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Lorent Tolaj – The Man Who Ran Towards The Void
The rumours are true. All bets are off. Lorent Tolaj, that pony-tailed Swiss enigma whose boots seemed to echo with the weight of purpose, has joined Plymouth Argyle. The brutal beauty of Stoke-on-Trent swapped for Devon. Tolaj wasn’t just a… Continue reading
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Echoes Beneath the Floodlights: Vale Park at 75
On Sunday 24 August 2025, Vale Park – the Wembley of the North and home of Port Vale FC — will celebrate 75 years of existence. A theatre of hopes, dreams, miseries, and nightmares. A place where time has not… Continue reading
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Port Vale 1-2 Stevenage FC: The Truth Is Here
Tuesday 19 August 2025 Vale Park, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent We were better. For long stretches, undeniably better. But football, like life, is not a meritocracy. Two goals in three minutes – one born of defensive negligence, the other a product of… Continue reading
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