Barry Edge poetry

This latest poem from Barry contains graphic detail and is rated M for mature readers. It contains ‘icky’ things that make people shudder at the thought.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. With season 2001/02 coming to an end Barry shares with ovf his choices for ‘Winners’ on and off the park. This is a fun piece of verse with a touch of respect. My special thanks to all ovf posters. And the […]

This onevalefan poem pays tribute to Paul Humphreys, also known as TallPaul, onevalefan’s mild mannered reporter, and winner of Aussie Rules ‘Shutterbug of the Year’ award, for his many home and away dispatches plus photographs during season 2001/2002.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. In this verse he converts Dick Dale’s experience with the local press and one of it’s reporters. It’s true! Honest! Cross his heart…and all that stuff.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. Not so long ago a Stoke City lad and a Port Vale girl went on a date. Suffice it to say they will not be dating again. It seems the lad’s style of courting didn’t impress the Burslem girl, […]

When Barry read the Cardiff Rivals message board he said he could have been knocked over with a feather. So he had a closer sticky-beak (look) to see what all the flapping was about.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. Here is his latest message board verse, this time courtesy Paul T Vale.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia. Barry, like the rest of us, enjoys Derby Days – especially when we beat Stoke City.

Barry draws on Lodge Gate’s ideas of giving and taking that serve to earn those valuable Leave Passes when we ‘mere males’ want to see our beloved Port Vale in action – home or away.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. Here is his exclusive poem about a young Billys Boots romance.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. Here is another of his exclusive poems about one of the Legends of our past.

In his post, dated March 17, 2002 Chris, aka Trent Vale Valiant, shares with us his harrowing experience when travelling between Burslem and Crewe. Burslem Babe had revealed to him a dark secret from her past – of gambling and the Grand National. Chris is still traumatised by it all.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. He has previously illuminated both Sean Ryan’s and Paul T Vale’s stories as to the how, what, where and why they are Valiants. In his latest verse he celebrates David@Preston’s story – our very own ‘adopted son from Dagenham’.

In his early morning post, dated 2nd November, Brooker’s Left Boot said it all for us after another week of non-existent public relations plus silence from the Boardroom of the Port Vale Football Club.

Shaun Higgs aka Biddulphian shares with onevalers the time he and his Valiant mate travelled to Vale Park in a top of the range Mercedes – courtesy of John, the well dressed Arsenal fan.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. For Barry onevalefan is ‘the forum’ for all things Port Vale. But folks, there’s more than just football to read and have your say about – as shown in this latest verse from our resident bard.

Fifty is a milestone celebrated in many ways: a fiftieth wedding anniversary; an innings of fifty runs; fifty first class wickets; fifty career goals; or even collecting your fiftieth Port Vale shirt. And reaching fifty years of age is a major milestone too. In this verse Barry draws on several parts of one ovf thread […]

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. Barry tell’s us that this little ditty is about one Stokie who is very dear to our Valiant hearts.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia. Last February certain message board banter between Port Vale and Stoke City rivals almost reached fever pitch. Our neighbours are in Division One now and Barry says, in a perverse sort of way of course, that he misses the banter between some of our absent Stokie […]

Barry tells us he fell over laughing when he first read Scarthy’s report card following that March day out in Crewe. Further, that it prompted him to think along the lines of ‘nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, y’know what I mean, y’know what I mean, hey, hey, what, what?’ For Barry it was […]

It’s strange how the most obscure of all our recollections can act as a spur to bringing back memories of days gone by, both happy or otherwise. In this verse Barry illuminates one such recollection from the keyboard of LoveRapt.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. Today he asks if the rumour’s true that Paul T Vale is making a bid for the job of manager at the Castle Brit.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan. In this poem Barry illuminates a Forum post, dated August 30, 2002, in which Vayurl tells of his close encounter with the local constabulary.

Exiled Valiant Barry Edge lives in Perth, Western Australia and is a regular columnist for onevalefan and this is his poem about the not so nice side of football.