Vale Park

  • Paulo Tavares, Cognitive Dissonance, and Port Vale FC

    I’d like to pull on your coat for a minute and tell you a story. It’s about Cognitive Dissonance and Confirmation Bias – those psychological mechanisms that allow us to overlook reality and follow our own narrative. It’s about those… Continue reading

    Paulo Tavares, Cognitive Dissonance, and Port Vale FC
  • ¡Bienvenido, Compañero Hernández!

    Look at us. We’ve dipped into the global talent pool and come up clutch. Onel Hernández doesn’t just arrive from the long, unromantic road that is Charlton, Norwich, Middlesbrough and Birmingham, no, Hernández arrives with the unmistakable imprint of Cuba… Continue reading

    ¡Bienvenido, Compañero Hernández!
  • 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

    Northern Skies, Valiant Hearts
  • Port Vale V Mansfield Town: Stags, Scabs and a Quality Bitter

    Saturday 20 September 2025, Vale Park, Stoke-on-Trent Kick off: Three O’Clock. Roll the windows down on the A38, brother, and let the wind whip your face like a miner’s ghost whispering through the hedgerows. You’re heading south, but the past… Continue reading

    Port Vale V Mansfield Town: Stags, Scabs and a Quality Bitter