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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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Port Vale 0-1 Plymouth Argyle: Life Extinct
After weeks of hard work and endeavour we have finally achieved our goal of reaching the bottom of League 1, taking over that mantle from yesterday’s visitors, Plymouth. Our quest for 4th division football seemingly impossible to stop. Darren Moore… 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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Bolton 4-0 Port Vale: Less Is Moore
Another day, another wreck on the highway. Wheels spinning, smoke curling, the whole thing sliding off the hard shoulder into the ditch. Total wipe-out. A horror show in Technicolor. Players who quit before the half-time whistle, players who lost the… 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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