The Port Vale Herald
Market7 Sep 2026
Newport County come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Port Vale did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Port Vale
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Port Vale are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Port Vale
Joe Gauci 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jordan Roberts 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
One of those days for Rico Richards
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mitch Clark gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market7 Sep 2026
Port Vale and Cameron Humphreys are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market7 Sep 2026
Nobody at Port Vale has picked up the phone to Jordan Roberts
11 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Match5 Sep 2026
Port Vale and Bolton Wanderers take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Squad The armband comes off George Byers
- Market Window shut, Mitch Clark still here
- Player ratings Ben Garrity runs at them all day