1953-54 Port Vale player profiles – the legendary Iron Curtain side
1953-54 Port Vale player profiles: images and contemporary text from the ‘Pride of Port Vale’ booklet.
Freddie Steele
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Potteries legend Freddie Steele represented Port Vale both as player and manager. However, he is best remembered as the manager of Port Vale’s legendary 1953-54 Iron Curtain side which won promotion and reached the FA Cup semi-final.
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Freddie Steele
Freddie Steele player profile: biography, stats, images and news about this Port Vale player.
Port Vale book available again
A well-received book about Port Vale’s legendary 1954 side – Men of Steele – has been given another print run.
Video: The 1953-1954 Port Vale Iron Curtain season
Thanks to Stuart Dean, we have a short documentary clip of Port Vale’s 1954 record-breaking side.
The heroes of ’54 get the magazine treatment
The excellent football nostalgia magazine Backpass has an extensive feature on Port Vale’s 1954 Iron Curtain side including an interview with Vale great Colin Askey.
Read the Port Vale v Wrexham programme from 1954
Paul Humphreys has kindly provided the onevalefan viewers with the opportunity to leaf through the pages of a souvenir programme from the glorious 1954 Iron Curtain campaign.
Port Vale history 1950 to 1968
The move to Vale Park, the cup run of the famed ‘Steele Curtain’ side and the controversy over league expulsion.