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Become the Beast: Jon Brady and the Machiavellian Playbook
Safety sits eleven points above us – and it’s a huge, jagged mountain to climb. And Jon Brady? He’s the man with his boots on, head down, ready to scale it. Ready to lead the way. Twentieth place in League… Continue reading
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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 and The Return Of 4-4-2
It went massively out of style, didn’t it? One minute 4‑4‑2 was the backbone of British football, the formation you could sketch on a beer mat over a few pints on a Friday night, the next minute it was treated… Continue reading
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Port Vale 5-1 Blackpool: A Tangerine Dream
Dare we dream. Dare we start believing. The road is long but yesterday – for the first time in months – we felt the engine catch. A spark. A rumble. The first steps on a mission everyone else has already… 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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A Little Trip Back to December 2023
Port Vale 3-2 Wigan Athletic. Saturday 16 December 2023, Vale Park. Edge-of-your-seat stuff. Ethan Chislett with a hat-trick, two-nil up at half-time, Wigan clawing it back to a Desmond in the second half, before Chizzy found the winner. That result… Continue reading
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Cut Adrift: Vale’s December Crisis
Nobody’s doing us any favours, are they? Peterborough, Exeter, Plymouth and Blackpool have all won league games over the last two nights. We didn’t lose because it was chucking it down and Vale Park has never coped with that. The… 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: Fiddling While Rome Burns
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – George Orwell After Saturday’s demoralising, utterly predictable defeat, we needed something from the club—a sign, a message, anything. Just… Continue reading
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