Sheff Utd 2-1 Port Vale
Sheff Utd 2-1 Port Vale: Micky Adams left Sheffield with his head held high, but a goal from Tom Pope proved to be not enough as the home side snatched a victory with two goals in the dying minutes of the match.
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About Tom Pope
The tall forward is a Port Vale striking legend after breaking the goalscoring record for goals scored at Vale Park. A lifelong Vale fan, he initially joined the club on loan before the move was made permanent.
The striker rose to prominence with thirty three goals during the side’s 2012-13 promotion season. He moved to Bury in 2015 but returned for a second spell with Port Vale in 2017.
The forward has now won the club’s player of the year award on three separate occasions.
Pope stretches lead at the top
Striker Tom Pope has moved clear at the top of OVF man of the match leaderboard after winning the MOTM award for the Bristol Rovers game.
Pope goes top of MOTM leaderboard
Striker Tom Pope has moved to the top of the OVF man of the match leaderboard after winning the MOTM award for the Rochdale game.
Smurthwaite: Pope’s going nowhere
Port Vale CEO Norman Smurthwaite called in to a live phone-in on BBC Radio Stoke to dismiss “rumours” that Vale were intending to sell top scorer Tom Pope.
Prolific Pope handed contract extension
Port Vale’s leading scorer Tom Pope’s goalscoring exploits have triggered a clause in his contract, tying him to the Valiants until the end of the 2013/14 season.
Watch Pope break Vale’s goalscoring record
Watch match highlights of Port Vale’s 4-0 thrashing of Bristol Rovers on Tuesday night in a game which saw prolific striker Tom Pope net a hat-trick.
Port Vale 4-0 Bristol Rovers
Port Vale 4-0 Bristol Rovers: Tom Pope became the fastest player to score twenty goals in the club’s history as the Valiants celebrated the Paul Wildes takeover with a comprehensive thrashing of Bristol Rovers.
Tom Pope: Burslem’s own Lionel Messi?
Sky Sports News have published a list of the current top scorers in Europe and Vale’s Tom Pope is lying in third place with the same tally as Barcelona star Lionel Messi.
Port Vale 2-2 Rochdale
Port Vale 2-2 Rochdale: Tuesday’s match was soured by poor refereeing decisions as Sam Morsy was controversially sent-off and Vale threw away a two goal lead.
Pope goes joint-top of MOTM leaderboard
Tom Pope has joined Jennison Myrie-Williams at the top of the overall OVF man of the match leaderboard. Pope was a convincing winner of the Wycombe MOTM vote. Here are the Wycombe results: MOTM Leadboard: 3 votes – Jennison Myrie-Williams, Tom Pope 2 votes – Chris Neal, Louis Dodds, Sam Morsy, and Doug Loft 1 […]
Port Vale 4-1 Wycombe Wanderers
Port Vale 4-1 Wycombe: Striker Tom Pope made it fiveteen goals for the season as Vale came from behind to beat ten man Wycombe at Vale Park.
Port Vale 3-0 Oxford Utd
Port Vale 3-0 Oxford: Goals from Tom Pope, Ashley Vincent and Sam Morsy earned Vale a deserved home win over Oxford Utd in front of the Sky TV cameras.
Pope nets second MOTM award
Prolific striker Tom Pope has been awarded his second OVF man of the match award of the season.
Double award joy for Port Vale
Manager Micky Adams and striker Tom Pope have been named as the nPower League Two manager and player of the month for September.
Vale duo on League Two awards shortlist
Manager Micky Adams and striker Tom Pope have been shortlisted for the nPower League Two manager and player of the month awards, respectively.
Exeter City 0-2 Port Vale
Exeter City 0-2 Port Vale: The prolific Tom Pope reached eleven goals for the season as the Vale produced another good away performance with a 2-0 win over Exeter.
Bradford City 0-1 Port Vale
Bradford City 0-1 Port Vale: The Valiants ended Bradford’s unbeaten home record after Tom Pope’s first-half strike earned them a 1-0 away win at the Coral Windows Stadium.
Pride restored by freescoring Vale
Prominent Port Vale columnist Martin Tideswell says that to see “the Vale playing expansive, attacking football echoes the halcyon days of the early to mid-Nineties and reminds us of when we had Messrs Guppy and McCarthy on the wing.”
Pope: We’re firing on all cylinders
In-form striker Tom Pope says Vale’s front four “look like they have played together for years” as they prepare to take on leaders Gillingham on Saturday.
Match Report: Fleetwood Town 2-5 Port Vale
Fleetwood Town 2-5 Port Vale: Strikers Louis Dodds and Tom Pope both scored twice as Micky Adam’s free-scoring Vale secured an astonishing 5-2 away win over Fleetwood Town.
Pope walks Rotherham MOTM vote
It will be no great surprise that striker Tom Pope was the resounding winner of the OVF man of the match award for the Rotherham game.
Vale duo named in team of the week
Winger Ashley Vincent and striker Tom Pope have been named in the Football League League Two team of the week.
Pope proving his doubters wrong
Prominent Port Vale columnist Martin Tideswell says he is delighted that striker Tom Pope “stepped out of the shadow of other Vale strikers and became his own man.”
Seven days, seven positives
It’s been a good week for the Valiants and Rob Fielding reflects on a number of positives both on and off the pitch…
No more late nights for new man Pope
Striker Tom Pope has acknowledged that a change in lifestyle has helped after he enjoyed a prolific start to the new season.
Port Vale 6-2 Rotherham United
Port Vale 6-2 Rotherham United: Tom Pope scored four times against his former club and with six goals this season went past his goal tally for the whole of the last campaign as Vale thrashed Steve Evans’ Rotherham.