Watch two match videos from Port Vale’s 1982-83 promotion season
We’re delighted to have been provided with these clips by a Port Vale supporter. They show the much loved 1982-83 promotion side in action.
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Charismatic manager John McGrath took Port Vale to promotion in 1983. He had been appointed manager in 1979 and was sacked in 1983. He later managed Preston North End. McGrath passed away in 1998.
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We’re delighted to have been provided with these clips by a Port Vale supporter. They show the much loved 1982-83 promotion side in action.
In another of our occasional look-backs at Vale events of yesteryear, we recall the season that Mark Chamberlain blossomed into a Port Vale star.
Christmas Day 2012 marks the fourteenth anniversary of former Port Vale FC manager John McGrath sadly passing away.
Cult hero John McGrath: the first manager to enter our cult hall of fame, McGrath’s reign may have been outshone by that of John Rudge but nevertheless McGrath enjoyed a memorable, brief and (at-least partially) successful spell with the Valiants..
The first of two articles looking through the pages of Port Vale’s souvenir promotion programme celebrating the successful 1982-1983 season.
The Roy Sproson legacy, years of underachievement and the emergence of John Rudge.