BillyJenningsBoots
5:10 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
Far Cough 2:29 Tue May 25
Obviously the Nam Arsenal comes from Woolwich Arsenal - their original name - but yes no such place either!
Are they the only 2 clubs not named after a place?
Oh hang on Crystal Palace just sprung to mind.. so thats 3...
|
Alan Alan Devonshire
4:59 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
This is actually a true story. In Dec 1990, I went to see what I thought was Port Vale at home to West Ham, but actually it was the reverse fixture at the Boleyn Ground! On Boxing Day 1990 we had played at home and I was spending a few days after Christmas with the in-laws in Hereford (about 100 miles from Stoke). I knew we were playing Port Vale a couple of days or so later and just assumed it was an away fixture. So anyway, my father in law (who was an Arsenal fan) and I drove up the M6 to Stoke on Trent to watch West Ham. There were quite a few cars with claret and blue scarves draped from the windows, so we thought we were in good company. Anyway, we arrived at the ground at about 2pm and it was completely deserted. I had even asked a local near the ground how to get there and he said, “I don’t know why you’d want to go there”. I assumed he must have been a Stoke City fan! Maybe it had been postponed, I thought? No, the weather wasn’t bad. It was only then that I looked in the newspaper and saw staring at me ‘West Ham v Port Vale’. Never has the expression, “Oh shit!” been more appropriate.
Fortunately the 200 mile round trip wasn’t wasted as Stoke City were at home to Huddersfield that afternoon, so we went to the Victoria Ground for that.
My father in law never let me forget that incident till his dying day. Finally, the ‘West Ham’ fans we were waving to on the motorway? They were actually Aston Villa fans going to their game at Old Trafford!
|
bruuuno
4:02 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
PORT VALE KILL WHU
|
Percy Dalton
3:56 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
Saw us win there in the cup 1970s can't remember much about it as I was terribly terribly drunk.
|
smartypants
3:45 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
I got done over there with West Ham about 89/90 we drew 2-2 I think, wasn’t pleasant. Its a horrible place.
|
Steady
3:35 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
Went there for an away game in 1991, won 1-0 and remember Bish scored the only goal, beauty in the top corner
|
Far Cough
3:18 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
Charlton had a massive ground as well
|
gph
3:16 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
Used to have one of the biggest (the biggest?) club grounds in the country, nicknamed the "Wembley of the North" (oddly, as Stoke is North Midlands, not North proper).
|
Eastside surge
3:10 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
I was at the 2-2 draw in the seats only realised the were standing below us when they all jumped about when they scored otherwise I would have been chucking stuff down on them earlier ( I wouldn't)
|
eastend joker
2:46 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
yes Paul Futcher last fucking minute !
|
SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:43 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
LH
I also just drove past their ground. Stoke is an unmitigated khazi. In fact, Tunstall (the ground is Tunstall/Burslem border, I think) is the least bad of the six towns and that looks like Gaza on a clearing up day.
|
Mr Kenzo
2:38 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
I went there, think we drew 2-2
PAUL FUTCHER
|
Far Cough
2:29 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
There was no place called Arsenal either, the name of the station was added after the Gooner cunts moved there
|
Mike the Hammer
2:25 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
Sarge got a hat trick against them in the FA Cup in 1985 in a 4-1 win.
|
Takashi Miike
2:19 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
martin foyle, club legend
|
Wilko Johnson
2:18 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
Leonard Hatred 2:16 Tue May 25
The club's name comes from a big old house that was there, if I recall correctly.
|
Leonard Hatred
2:16 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
I just drove past their ground. It's in Burslem Stoke. There is no place called Port Vale. So why is it called Port Vale?
|
Lee Trundle
2:14 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
I always used to buy Robin van der Laan when I used to play CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER in the 90's.
|
Rossal
2:13 Tue May 25
Re: Port Vale
|
Robbie Williams
|
| 
