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Port Vale: Ball Number Four
Tonight the balls will rattle in the bowl and the ghosts of giant-killings will lean in close, because the FA Cup 4th round draw is upon us and Vale are still breathing. Skin in the game, knuckles scraped, after a… Continue reading
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Port Vale 0-1 Peterborough Utd: Relegation By Design
I don’t get it. What’s the endgame here? What possible logic leads the owner of a football club to stare down the barrel of relegation and simply… shrug? Do absolutely nothing? Before the new year has even bothered to dawn,… Continue reading
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Port Vale Vs Peterborough United: All or Nothing
Peterborough Town roll into town on Saturday, fellow strugglers, albeit beginning to climb out of the dirty relegation pond, and we need to win. We absolutely need to win. And it does not matter how we do that. Because playing… Continue reading
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FA Cup 2nd Round: A Flicker of Light in the Gloom?
It’s FA Cup 2nd round weekend, a brief detour from the hideousness of our league situation, a chance to breathe, to galvanise, to overcome, to find some answers in this absolute shitshow of a season. We host Bristol Rovers – … Continue reading
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Port Vale 0-0 Wycombe Wanderers: The Long Road To League 2
Our relentless march toward the Fourth Division continues, despite scraping a point from Saturday’s clash with Wycombe. The adventurous play to win, cautious play not to lose. We chose caution. Fortunately for us, so did Wycombe —a surprise, really, because… Continue reading
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Northern Skies, Valiant Hearts
Saturday, we’ll be back on the road, up the M6 and through the grey drizzle, Bolton away, it’s one of those games, right? We’re riding out there with nowt but a prayer, expecting the hit, expecting the loss, but who… Continue reading
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Port Vale 5-1 Maldon & Tiptree: Without Mercy. Without Remorse.
It was all over in twenty-four minutes of glorious chaos, four goals in a nine minute spell from Vale enough to deprive the nation of a Sunday afternoon giant-killing. It began with a dream and a stumble. Five minutes in… Continue reading
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Port Vale vs Maldon & Tiptree: Even The Gods Watch The First Round
Sunday 2 November, 3PM kick-off. The Valiants vs Maldon & Tiptree. FA Cup 1st Round proper. This fixture that has become drenched in so much narrative it might as well be staged by Beckett and scored by Wagner. The Maldon… Continue reading
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Port Vale vs Stockport County: Under The Lights
No football for us this weekend. Why? Because Sky Sports, the great puppeteer of the modern game, wanted it played on a Monday night for the cameras. That’s why. And what Sky wants, Sky gets. So here we are, Stockport… Continue reading
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AFC Wimbledon 1-1 Port Vale: Our Achilles Heel
Where we end up this season, it’s all down to the back line — the last stand, the trench, the place where dreams get mugged in the alleyways. Defending. It’s not been great, has it? Not great at all. Ok,… Continue reading
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