Port Vale FC issue statement – No Robbie Williams takeover bid
Port Vale football club have denied sensationalised tabloid reports that popstar Robbie Williams is set to takeover the club.
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About Robbie Williams
The popstar is a lifelong Port Vale supporter having grown up in the Red Lion pub near to Port Vale’s Vale Park stadium.
During the height of Take That’s fame, the wearing of a Port Vale shirt by the popstar helped to significantly increase sales in the club shop.
Williams has also appeared several times in a Port Vale shirt notably during a testimonial game for long-serving defender Neil Aspin.
The lifelong Vale supporter, became a majority stakeholder in the club in 2006 and he proxied his voting rights to the Supporters Club when fans tried to oust the unpopular Port Vale board.
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