The Port Vale Herald
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Yang Min-Hyeok runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 48. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match16 Sep 2028
No end in sight to Port Vale's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Port Vale has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Port Vale
Daniele Rugani was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match16 Sep 2028
Port Vale cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match16 Sep 2028
A bad afternoon for Port Vale against Bradford City
0‑1 to Bradford City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Jordan Gabriel falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad18 Sep 2028
No hiding place for Rhys Walters
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rhys Walters, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Port Vale pick somebody else ahead of Edward Walker
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Market18 Sep 2028
The George Byers question follows Port Vale around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with George Byers’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Port Vale pick up Zakhar Chervyakov for nothing
- Market Port Vale put Ronwen Hlatshwayo up for sale