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20 hours ago, Guitar Ray said:

I think we beat Preston first game of the season around ‘91 or 2 can’t remember now if it was 3 or 4 -1.  Someone will correct me.  Of course we’d also previously played them in the playoffs and Beckford scored a hat trick in the home second leg before we went on to beat Bristol Rovers.

3-1 win at Preston on the opening game of the 88/89 season. New £20,000 signing Paul Atkinson scored 2 on his debut. He'd also scored the only goal in a 1-0 friendly win v Stoke at Vale Park a couple of weeks before. He was looking like being a great signing but then got a bad injury very soon after and barely played again for us.

(the play-off games v Preston, with the Beckford hat-trick, were at the end of that same season).

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Impossible to choose just one favourite.  Some on the short list include the Autoglass final when the Sky commentator said we looked like AC Milan in the first half.  The 6-0 win at Fulham with Andy Jones scoring a hat trick was brilliant.  Any win over Stoke, especially Bogie's 12 second goal - the look on my Stokie mate's face when that went in was an absolute picture!  A game in the 70s against Grimsby when we were 3-0 down after an hour then scored four in ten minutes to win it.  That 4-0 win at Huddersfield that kept us up and relegated Stoke and Man City.  The Spurs and Everton cup ties, the first of which brought Vale to national attention for the first time in ages.  Having considered all of those, however, I have to pick last Saturday - a perfect day in every respect.  Thank you, Vale!

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3 hours ago, Aguar61 said:

The things that dreams are made of

 

We may dream about it now but it was in real at the time.  The numerous Lard fans I worked with on a big factory were pretty much all magnanimous in defeat, which was a first.  Moaned a bit about Regis but that was it.

Working with so many people the build up to the derbies was like nothing else I’ve experienced before or since.  It divided the place, even people who’d previously expressed no interest in football took sides.  A few of these, when I asked why not Vale, said they actually took their (Lard) side because they felt “sorry” for them.  True story.

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9 hours ago, The Kalamazoo Kid said:

3-1 win at Preston on the opening game of the 88/89 season. New £20,000 signing Paul Atkinson scored 2 on his debut. He'd also scored the only goal in a 1-0 friendly win v Stoke at Vale Park a couple of weeks before. He was looking like being a great signing but then got a bad injury very soon after and barely played again for us.

(the play-off games v Preston, with the Beckford hat-trick, were at the end of that same season).

I was mascot at Preston that day, then was on the pitch again in play offs when a fire broke out.

I spoke to Paul Atkinson on Facebook recently, he aint a fan of John Rudge. He was calling him all sorts.

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