The Port Vale Herald
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Port Vale's wait for a win
14 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for George Barker
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Port Vale lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Aug 2027
Nowhere to hide for Port Vale
0‑3 against Exeter City, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Too dear: Port Vale walk away from Nathan Opoku
$500.0K was the most the club would pay and Leicester City were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match21 Aug 2027
The goals have deserted Port Vale
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Port Vale can tell you which week it ends in.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Port Vale
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Door shut on Fin Roberts
Port Vale asked and Crewe Alexandra said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match17 Aug 2027
Huddersfield Town take the points off Port Vale
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Rico Richards frozen out at Port Vale
This is not rotation. Rico Richards has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Port Vale is pretending otherwise.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for George Hall
- Market One of our own: James Robinson joins the Port Vale first team
- Market Joseph Smith steps up from the Port Vale academy