Stephen Mitchell

Defensive Midfielder - Port Vale
16 Apr 2036
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The Port Vale Herald

24 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad24 Mar 2036

Ed Thomas damages knee ligaments — 115 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 115 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market24 Mar 2036

Terms done: Ole Ryerson is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Viking waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Port Vale is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match22 Mar 2036

Still nobody has beaten Port Vale

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market24 Mar 2036

Stephen Mitchell asks to leave Port Vale

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad24 Mar 2036

Emmanuel Airoboma in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Port Vale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings24 Mar 2036

Benjamin Brown beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match22 Mar 2036

Jadel Katongo sends Port Vale past Cheltenham Town

It finished 1‑0, and it was Jadel Katongo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Port Vale.

Player ratings24 Mar 2036

Jadel Katongo was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.17. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad24 Mar 2036

Benjamin Brown 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.

In brief

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The Port Vale Herald

24 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings24 Dec 2035

No sign of nerves from Samuel Mitchell at 21 — 7.78

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Samuel Mitchell did not need any: 7.78, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The dugout24 Dec 2035

Ole Ryerson keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Port Vale may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market24 Dec 2035

David Machado puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Port Vale, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad24 Dec 2035

Tempers go at Port Vale

Emmanuel Airoboma 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.

Player ratings24 Dec 2035

Benjamin Brown was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match22 Dec 2035

Samuel Mitchell sends Port Vale past Accrington Stanley

It finished 1‑0, and it was Samuel Mitchell’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Port Vale.

Squad24 Dec 2035

The decline has begun for Juan Cekalovich

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 34 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Port Vale is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Squad24 Dec 2035

A row about effort at Port Vale

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oliver Evans was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout24 Dec 2035

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Interim Coach kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief