OVF Youtube retro classic: Vale hit Barnet for six

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On our OVF YouTube channel we remember some of the great Vale moments of recent years – here we remember a*thrashing of Barnet back in 1993 About the clip Port Vale hit six in their first home game of the 1993-94* season with*strikers Martin Foyle and Bernie Slaven both netting hat-tricks. It was the first-ever […]

 

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[Lornelounger]

Must have broken a record, this game, surely - there can't have been any other instances of where a team reduced to ten men (Billings sent off early on for pulling their striker back when clean through if I remember?) then went on to outplay the opposition and win 6 - 0 with 2 hat tricks. I know Barnet were struggling, and I seem to recall a rather portly goalie of theirs getting a bit of stick from the Bycars, but joining in the banter. Foyle and Slaven were Premiership quality in my view - I wish we had some strikers of their ilk today.

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Must have broken a record, this game, surely - there can't have been any other instances of where a team reduced to ten men (Billings sent off early on for pulling their striker back when clean through if I remember?) then went on to outplay the opposition and win 6 - 0 with 2 hat tricks. I know Barnet were struggling, and I seem to recall a rather portly goalie of theirs getting a bit of stick from the Bycars, but joining in the banter. Foyle and Slaven were Premiership quality in my view - I wish we had some strikers of their ilk today.

 

They were but I seem to recall that even in those days people would moan. I can remember people complaining about Foyle not scoring enough or not being a "fox in the box" type upfront wheras I would say he was arguably the most complete striker I have seen.

 

For me, he was intelligent, brought others into the play, could pass, could finish and must have been great to partner upfront. Foyle was brilliant yet even in those days some fans would moan about him.

 

I guess some things never change...