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Hi,

I'm the pre-match reporter for the Port Vale Fans Forum One Vale Fan.

Part of my role is to contact fans of our forthcoming opponents to ask them a few questions and gain their views on the upcoming fixture between our sides in order to produce a report which we release on the site a couple of days prior to the game.

I wondered if you have a few minutes and would be prepared to share a few views if you would kindly offer your feelings on the game by answering the following few questions;
1. Tell us a bit about yourself & history as a fan?
2. How are your team doing (current form and in relation to the expectation of fans at the start of the season)?
3. Who should we watch out for (one or more danger player/s)?
4. What are your thoughts on your manager?
5. What are your thoughts on your board & off field club activities?
6. Any views on Port Vale & specific players?
7. Any views & memories of players / managers that have been involved with both teams (Billy Paynter, Calvin Andrew, Kaid Mohamed etc.)?
8. A score prediction (and potential scorers for both sides)?

Please also feel free to include any other information you feel worthy and I will knock it into a report as per the example below regarding contribution from Plymouth fans from our game with them;
http://www.onevalefan.co.uk/site/opposing-views-plymouth/

To enable me to produce this in good time I need your replies by Tuesday 4th February and the report should appear on the website a day or two before our fixture.

Please also let me know if you would like me to include your name on the article.

Many thanks for your potential support in this matter.

Best Regards,



REP  :bye:

Oh dear, not good timing  :rain:

I thought I would send it while traffic was high on the site  ;)

We are in the very same boat today as you guys, next week could be a decider for one of us in terms of possibly ending our play off challenege....

Do you have the number for the bird in the mature dating advert on your link as i would come to vale for her, the football not so much at the moment. ;) ;)

I have one for Thai Love Links, if that floats your boat I will find one over here for you.

The ladies in Burslem are quite passionate but you may need a couple of paperbags subject to your standards  :eek:

Possibly? Think that ship sailed some weeks ago for us...

Sailed and sunk without trace

Scraping another 10 points to stay up has to be our priority. A day out at Wembley will be a bonus.

Not if our last few visits are anything to go by  :(

Don't get me started on Wembley

Is Port Vale still the only team in the league that isn't named after its geographical location?  I'm sure a lot of folk still think it's in South Wales.

Wimbledon was Milton Keynes for a while.

and Aston Villa, may be others?

So would anyone like to take part & complete the interview questions?  :hmmm:

Villa Park is, I believe in Aston.  QPR though are actually a couple of miles from Queens Park itself and Crystal Palace are not actually based at Crystal Palace, the nearest stations being Norwood Junction and Selhurst Park.

What do you reckon Reg?

I think the point Ardiles is trying to make, is that QPR, and Crystal Palace are named after geographical locations whereas Port Vale, if I recall correctly is named after a hotel.

Although, of course, they used to be called Burslem Port Vale, a name which should never have been changed.

There's a few clubs who have a geographical name but don't play in that location....eg Grimsby, play in Cleethorpes....Bolton play in Horwich.  Bormuff, who I still think of as Bormuff and Boscombe Athletic play in Boscombe.

Wr have to get through the 80% bollocks first  :D

Ill give it a go later on, shopping with the missus first  :cry: :suicide:

Got you - Like Raith Rovers, as in (dancing in the streets of). Raith apparently is Gaelic for 'fort' or 'fortified residence' and is not a geographic area. Closer to home, Arsenal must surely fall into this bracket? :hmmm:

Yep...Reg has got it.  Should have been clearer, sorry.  Clubs will often wander a few miles from where they started out, like Bolton.  (Geddit?)  Arsenal works if you make it Woolwich Arsenal...making PV the exception, I think.

Yes, but they dropped the Woolwich part of Woolwich Arsenal, the same as Burslem being dropped from Burslem Port Vale. It's the same principal is it not?

So how does Headington work?   :sherlock:

The name comes from where the meeting to form the club took place in 1876, the meeting took place in PORT VALE HOUSE.

I'm not certain why you say the name should never have been changed as Burslem was actually adopted later and then disused as we moved looking for a permanent ground until finally settling in Burslem in 1950.

No as we were never formed as Burslem Port Vale, we were formed as Port Vale.

OK, it was a house not a hotel.... maybe it was Plymuff then who got the Argyle from a hotel.

I just prefer the name Burslem Port Vale....in 1960 wasn't Vale Park going to be the "Wembley of the North"?

Didn't some crackpot want to change their name to Port Vale Spitfires recently?

I think we all love it to be honest, makes us unique.

Think we bought it in the mid 40's and it took longer to build than it should have as it was indeed heralded as the Wembley of the North with a 70,000 capacity but costs spiralled and so we settled for 40,000 in the end when it opened in 1950.

My grandad was one of the builders.

A good word re Burslem....

Strange that in Scotland there are plenty of clubs not named after the geographical locations of clubs. Hibernian, Celtic, Rangers, Queen of the South, The Spartans even.

Glasgow Rangers?

Rangers Football Club, similarly The Celtic Football Club.

Yeah. I always thought their official name was Glasgow Rangers for some reason. Just googled it though and it seems I've been wrong all along.

Thanks guys, I have a couple of replies now so don't need anymore.

The finished article will appear on our site by Friday  :D

Happy to keep discussing the origins of Port Vale though and the post about the Port Vale Spitfires takes me back, 2005 and our crazy and corrupt previous board;

http://www.thefootballforum.net/index.php?/topic/42753-vale-unveil-controversial-plan/

You have just reminded me of another one of my bugbears...the way pundits on Sky (and possibly elsewhere) will routinely refer to Man U as 'United' as if everyone is supposed to accept that they - and not Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds, Scunthorpe, whoeever else - are the default 'United'.  You'll hear commentators say '...when he transferred from Newcastle to United' etc.  Irritates the pants off me.

^^^ this

and how football didn't seem to exist pre sky and the premier league.  :badmood: