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A selection of favourite Port Vale games over the years including cup giantkillings, finals and promotions...

Classic Port Vale clashes

A selection of favourite Port Vale games over the years including cup giantkillings, finals and promotions…

History and Memorabilia

Match action - Port Vale 2-0 Swindon Town 1938

Goalkeeper drama overshadowed Port Vale’s first-ever win over Swindon in 1938…

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Read an 1893 match report as Port Vale thrash rivals Crewe

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A look at Port Vale’s club record 9-1 win over Chesterfield in 1932

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Nearly Men 31: Deklan Wynne, the International left-back who never played competitively for Vale

Five of the best

Five bizarre Port Vale transfer rumours

Five bizarre Port Vale transfer rumours

Port Vale v Czechoslovakia programme

Five of the best: memorable Port Vale programmes

Port Vale striker Bob Blood

Five of the best: Port Vale forwards with formidable strike rates

Port Vale's first-ever promotion in 1930 was an amazing, against the odds triumph

Five of the best – Port Vale comeback seasons after suffering relegation

Cult heroes

Port Vale winger David Worrall

Cult hero 74: David Worrall

Bill Cope - Port Vale

Cult hero 73: Bill Cope

Tom Pope

Cult hero 72: Tom Pope

Phil Griffiths

Cult hero 71: Phil Griffiths

Vintage Vale Park

Port Vale - Vale Park opening day songsheet

The Vale Park stadium opening day, August 1950

Vale Park tunnel 2021

Sentinel reports on £1.2m Vale Park stadium improvements this summer

Split image: the plans and artist's impression of Vale Park's Hamil End

Original Vale Park plans envisaged a huge Kop-style end terrace

The Lorne Street stand in 2020

The long, long wait is over – the Lorne St stand is fully seated

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The Iron Curtain side of 1954

Scrapbook - press clippings from the 1953-54 season

Press Clippings: media reports of Port Vale’s glorious 1953-54 season

1954 FA Cup semi-final replay ticket

A ticket for a possible replay of Port Vale’s 1954 FA Cup semi-final

I was there: a fans’ view of Port Vale’s Iron Curtain side

I was there: a fans’ view of Port Vale’s Iron Curtain side

Front cover: Sentinel special to celebrate Port Vale's 1954 FA Cup semi-final

1954 semi-final special – the front cover

Tributes & Obituaries

Vale Park Stadium entrance © Copyright Graham Hogg and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Former Port Vale midfielder Billy Kellock passes away

Commentator George Andrews interviews Brian Horton

Respected Port Vale commentator George Andrews passes away

Harry Poole

Legendary Port Vale player Harry Poole passes away

Arthur Longbottom - Port Vale

Arthur Longbottom, Port Vale’s top scorer in 1962 passes away

Port Vale programmes

Mansfield Town v Port Vale programme, 1985

Vintage programme: read Mansfield Town versus Port Vale, 1985

Ipswich Town v Port Vale programme,1990

Vintage programme: read Ipswich Town versus Port Vale, 1990

Newcastle United versus Port Vale, 1991

Vintage programme: read Newcastle United vs Port Vale from 1991

Wrexham vs Port Vale programme 1963

Vintage programme: read Wrexham versus Port Vale from 1963

Port Vale scrapbooks

Portion of an 1895 letter about Port Vale FC

Clippings: “hobbledehoys” – a Port Vale spat in the 1895 letters section of the Sentinel

Port Vale's new signing for the 1983-84 season

Clippings: Photoshoots of Port Vale new signings over the years

Port Vale 4-2 Swansea Town, 1968

Scrapbook Clippings: teenager Mick nets a hat-trick for Port Vale

Scrapbook - Port Vale games in the late 1960s

Scrapbook clippings – more Vale shots from the sixties

The Sproson family

The Roy Sproson statue by AS Photos

The Roy Sproson statue is unveiled

Press clipping - Sportsman award for Roy Sproson

Flashback: Roy Sproson honoured in 1969

The Roy Sproson and Selwyn Whalley testimonial programme

Sproson and Whalley’s testimonial programme, 1964

The Sproson Legacy

Phil Sproson: the OVF interview

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Nearly Men

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Nearly Men 31: Deklan Wynne, the International left-back who never played competitively for Vale

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Nearly men 30: cosmopolitan manager Constantine who turned down Port Vale in 2016

Flags fly at the back of Port Vale's Railway Stand

Nearly men 29: Chris Burns, the swap deal which never happened

Chris Price - image courtesy Talking Bull

Nearly men 28: Chris Price, the full-back who turned down John Rudge

On this day

: 1910 Goalkeeper Allan Todd is born.; 1929 Albert Pynegar hits his sixth goal in four games during a 3-1 win over Nelson.; 1968 Former player Joe Brough sadly passes away.; 1968 Winger John Jeffers is born.; 1985 Paul Maguire scores twice as Port Vale defeat Wrexham 4-0.; 2001 Ian Armstrong scores his first Port Vale goal in a 5-0 win over Cambridge United.; 2001 Danny Maye makes his Port Vale debut in a 5-0 win over Cambridge United.; 2021 Danny Amos, George Lloyd and Ellis Jones all make their full debuts in a 1-0 Football League Trophy win over Rochdale.; 2024 Lorent Tolaj scores the winner as Port Vale win 1-0 at Notts County.