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Striker Darren Beckford is rightly regarded as a Port Vale legend after a prolific spell with the club. Beckford joined initially on loan in 1986 before fans helped to fund a permanent transfer in 1987. It proved to be money well spent as Beckford netted 82 goals before a near £1m move to Norwich City in 1991.
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In the 2021-22 Port Vale squad both captain Tom Conlon and striker Eden Bailey have relatives who have also played for the club. Here’s a select list of Port Vale players from the same family…
Darren Beckford beats England keeper Peter Shilton – here’s how the national press reported on Port Vale’s creditable home draw with Derby County on January 7th 1990.
We present a selection of press clippings from the 1988-89 Port Vale promotion season charting the success of John Rudge’s side.
It’s thirty one years ago since Port Vale had one of their most memorable weekends in decades.
One is a very well-known name to Vale fans and the other is somewhat surprising – we reveal more two Port Vale transfer near-misses.
Darren Beckford signs for Port Vale: this photo shows the signing of Manchester City striker Darren Beckford in 1987
This photo shows legendary England goalkeeper Peter Shilton clearing the ball from Port Vale striker Darren Beckford.
Ultimate Port Vale strikers: finally, after a longer than expected delay, we’re asking you to select two upfront for our ultimate eleven.
A selection of programme front cover images from over the decades form the latest of our Clipping Heroes series.
In our latest series of clipping from the OVF archives, we look at several matches from the latter part of the 1980’s.
The premise of this series is very simple – press clippings of a prominent Port Vale figure. In this episode it’s Darren Beckford.
Our latest addition to our OVF YouTube channel is a compilation of some of striker Darren Beckford’s many Vale goals.
Darren Beckford player profile: biography, stats, images and news about this Port Vale player.
A new series of videos by OVF celebrate the achievements of key Vale players or officials. Our aim is to sum up their work for the club in a matter of minutes. This one looks at the Port Vale MBE routine.
Port Vale hat-tricks: here is a look back at all of Port Vale hat-trick heroes from the last fifty years.
Here’s a clip from Central News, circa 1990, of Vale players Robbie Earle and Darren Beckford. The report includes a brief compilation of the pair’s goals.
For our latest scrapbook clippings, we take a look at a few Port Vale survival masterclasses including a report on that memorable win over Huddersfield.
Watch the second part of our goals compilation from Port Vale’s promotion season including some memorable strikes from Futcher, Ford, Beckford and of course Robbie Earle…
Darren Beckford and Ron Futcher are amongst the goalscorers as we present two matches from the 1988-1989 promotion season.
We take a look back to 1989 and a crucial play-off semi-final second-leg encounter with Preston North End. Vale had drawn the first-leg 1-1 in a game somewhat overshadowed by a fire under the wooden away end. But they clinched a place in the final with a 3-1 win thanks to another hat-trick by striker […]
Our latest video feature is some footage of fans and players as Port Vale celebrate promotion in 1989.
For this Video Vault feature, we take a trip back to 1988 and a special weekend for Port Vale fans when the Valiants managed to string together two high-scoring wins in the space of just three days. They started with a 6-1 demolition of Cardiff City on Saturday September the 17th, 1988 – a game […]
In this historical feature, we take a look at Port Vale programme feature from 1989 which celebrates Darren Beckford’s 150th appearance for the club.