The Port Vale Miscellany

Phil Sherwin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2025 | New edition
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83705-123-6 (ISBN)

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Port Vale Football Club – the name gives no clue to its whereabouts, but this book will tell you all of the highs, lows and downright strange happenings at a club that has been in existence in the Potteries for over 150 years.

Port Vale became the first club to defeat all of the other 91 teams in league games in the main four divisions as of 2021 and have kept up the record in every season since then.

Vale fan and player Tom Pope was the leading scorer in Britain in 2012/13 with 33 goals, none of them being penalties.

Cardiff City once offered a blank cheque for winger Colin Askey, and the club turned it down!

Vale Park once held over 49,000 fans for an FA Cup tie v Aston Villa.

From an FA Cup semi-final to expulsion from the league, and from four Wembley appearances to a ten-goal home defeat when the goalkeeper lost his glasses in the mud, it’s all here. Recounting the record wins, defeats and attendances, the highs of classic giant-killings and the lows of going into administration, The Port Vale Miscellany is a book on the Valiants like no other, packed with facts, stats, trivia, stories and legends.

PHIL SHERWIN has been a Port Vale fan for over 40 years. He is the club's statistician and The Port Vale Miscellany is his first book.

Title
Copyright
Introduction
Foreword
The Port Vale Miscellany

In the Beginning
He’s the One
The Arrival of the Shanahans
Lighten Up
Roy of the Rovers, Or Sam of the Vale?
United over the Vale
Heavy Metal Holocaust
Nicknames
Abandonments
Pitch Invasion
Played for Both Sides
Fan, Player and Record Scorer
We’ve Beaten the Lot
Time for a Ducking
Penalty King
The Ones that Got Away
Young Boys of Burslem
Perish the Thought
Blank Cheque
He’s the Gaffer
Just Not Cricket
Referee
Famous Sons
Record Sale
Quickest Goals
Missed Train
Unbeaten Runs
Home Comforts
Football League Records
Family Affair
They Died with their Boots On
‘Gypsy’ Joe
Shortest Career
Father and Son
Man of the Cloth
Goodison Park Record Breaker
Chairman, Manager, Player and Linesman
Record Sell On
Top Ten Gates
Home Comforts
Bogey Teams
Wemb-Er-Lee!
Foreign Legion
Welsh Cup
Debenhams Cup
Young Guns
Youngest Scorers
Division Three Cup
Last Home Game Woes
The Steele Curtain
Half Man, Half Crab
Sir Stanley Matthews
Treble Hat-Trick
Golden Goal
Two Port Vales
Ground Swap
Fa Cup Pull Out
Great Escape
Boxing
Where’s your Trophy Gone?
Away Goals
Floodlight Pioneers
Scoring Goalkeeper
Name Change
Top Scorer for Two Clubs
Stewart Littlewood the Goal-Scoring Enigma
Double Embarrassment
National Visitors
Yorkshire Cricketers
Highs and Lows
Top Dogs
Back to the League Thanks to a Charlie
Champions of Great Britain
Hat-Tricks
Testimonials
Uproar at Unknowns
Sendings Off
Grounds
Simply the Best
Giant Killing
Top Ten Sales
Top Ten Buys
‘White Boy’
The International Set
Common Opponents
Only Scored V Wrexham
Christmas Day
The Old Uns
Fa Cup Semis
Destroyed By Ryan Wilson
A Long Walk
Most Appearances
Most Goals
Fractured Nose
Giant Killers’ Cup
Robbie Williams Gets the Winner
First Goal
Neighbours
The League Cup
International Venue
Penalty Shoot-Outs
Greatest Embarrassment
Substitutes
American Football
Long-Serving Stalwart
Change of Name?
Record Defeat
Sunday Football
Average Attendances
Munich Air Disaster
Consecutive Appearances
Direct Free Kick
Colours
Anglo-Italian Cup
Boat Race Hat-Tricks
Consecutive Scoring
Greatest Comebacks – for
Greatest Comebacks – Against
The Championships
Administration – Twice
Up, Down and Sideways
Leading League Scorers
Autoglass/Ldv Vans Trophy
Berni Inns
Brothers
From Hero to Zero
Consecutive Clean Sheets
Re-Election
Fa Youth Cup
The Big Home Wins
The Big Away Wins
Ray King
Baseball
Same Again Please
Wartime Guests
Test Match
Resignation
Lowest Gates
Zenith Data Systems Cup
Play-Off Near Misses
He’s Behind You!
Blood Money
Player of the Year
The Big Home Defeats
The Big Away Defeats
PFA Awards
European Trophy
Complete League Record
Play-Offs
Port Vale – Premier League?
Luckiest Ground
Biggest Bogey Ground of the Lot
Floodlights
Wilf Kirkham
The Chairmen
Neutral Grounds
Reserve Crowd Record
Arresting Debut
Speedway
Vale Park

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2025
Vorwort	Robbie Earle
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-83705-123-2 / 1837051232
ISBN-13	978-1-83705-123-6 / 9781837051236
Zustand	Neuware