[Football] Strange Fact About Port Vale !

[Steve Foster]

 

[Jack Straw]

I like that!

 

[Eeyore]

That's a good one.

Little fact, Port Vale is one of my top five most visited league grounds.Great little pub crawl up the hill.

It was also the outing in which [MENTION=616]Guinness Boy[/MENTION] myself and others set the record for most tinnies in a BR locker (88) in 1990.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

So in actual fact, Port Vale are the best team

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

There will be plenty of sides who have beaten at least once every club they have met in the league or one of the cups. Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool shirley?

The only club on our list is Chelsea.

 

[Pevenseagull]

There will be plenty of sides who have beaten at least once every club they have met in the league or one of the cups. Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool shirley?

The only club on our list is Chelsea.

We've never beaten Salford


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Or Harrogate.


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I hadn't read your comment properly / you hadn't read the opening comment properly / both.

Maybe both.

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

There will be plenty of sides who have beaten at least once every club they have met in the league or one of the cups. Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool shirley?

The only club on our list is Chelsea.

Not sure we have beaten (or played) Sutton Utd in the league either?

 

[Durlston]

Great atmosphere at Vale Park and that pitch always seems so wide - winger Steve Guppy is still a legend there (along with Martin Foyle and manager John Rudge) where he went on to sign for Leicester. They were a great club in the nineties. Darts genius Phil Taylor and Robbie Williams are their celebrity fans!

 

[A1X]

If they lose their next game 1-0 through an own goal will it be all 92 they’ve beaten?

 

[Superphil]

What a wonderful stat, and achievement.

 

[GT49er]

I wonder when they beat, say, Liverpool, Spurs or Arsenal in the league (back in the days of Burslem Port Vale and Woolwich Arsenal, I presume). Still, unlike us, they can never claim to have beaten Thames United, Merthyr Town or Aberdare Athletic I suppose! I do hope, however, that we don't get round to beating Sutton, Salford or Fleetwood Town in the league any time soon!

Just Chelsea next season will do fine for me!

 

[Gabbafella]

I always had a real dislike for Port Vale in the 90's. I dreaded our games against them, not sure what our record was against them but I can't think of too many pleasant memories playing them, and then when Minton signed for them I was truly gutted.

 

[Invicta]

I always had a real dislike for Port Vale in the 90's. I dreaded our games against them, not sure what our record was against them but I can't think of too many pleasant memories playing them, and then when Minton signed for them I was truly gutted.

They sealed promotion at the Goldstone in 1994, last game of season.

 

[Simgull]

Are they though the first club to do this? Has it been done previously with a few different, but longer standing, clubs amongst the 91?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

We've never beaten Salford


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Or Harrogate.


Edit again

I hadn't read your comment properly / you hadn't read the opening comment properly / both.

Maybe both.

It's either me or you.





It's you

 

[Eeyore]

Are they though the first club to do this? Has it been done previously with a few different, but longer standing, clubs amongst the 91?

Thinking about it, it's unlikely up until the late 50s when the two bottom leagues were divided.

After that, there are teams in different regions that clubs such as Liverpool or Everton would never have come into contact with.

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A quick look. Liverpool have never played Colchester United. Arsenal have never played Exeter City. Everton have never played Mansfield.

Thinking about it, Portsmouth, Bolton Wanderes and Huddersfield Town might be an interesting check though. In more recent times, Wimbledon and Wigan Athletic.

Someone else can do it.

 

[Swansman]

Thinking about it, it's unlikely up until the late 50s when the two bottom leagues were divided.

After that, there are teams in different regions that clubs such as Liverpool or Everton would never have come into contact with.

Edit:

A quick look. Liverpool have never played Colchester United. Arsenal have never played Exeter City. Everton have never played Mansfield.

Anywhere or just league games?

 

[Eeyore]

Anywhere or just league games?

Not in any competitive match.

 

[Robinjakarta]

I always think of them as the club where we got our best ever captain from.

 

[Icy Gull]

I have great memories of my only visit to Vale Park

I probably wasn’t quite as excited as someone on this clip though!


https://youtu.be/HAVzt-rmxDE