Its highly unusual these days for Town to be a cut above a team in the same division, but for the first 1/2 hour of this match we were. After that, well a combination of "..Typical Town..", along with some poor finishing by Vale and some dubious refereeing kept all the goals in the first half.
David Mirfin got a start and Luke Beckett was dropped in favour of Andy Booth, and it didn't take long for "...our favourite son.." (to borrow a Paul Clark-ism) to get on the scoresheet. A trademark header from an Andy Holdsworth free kick and we were 1 up within 2 minutes.
We weren't made to wait too long for a second goal, and again it came from a set piece. Holdsworth again with the short corner, left alone by Danny Schofield, the ball came to Ronnie Wallwork and he scored with an unstoppable shot.
Town went 3 up after 24 minutes - Joe Skarz played the ball in this time, Nathan Clarke headed home (although I wasn't sure it had crossed the line)!
That was the end of the Town scoring, but Port Vale gave themselves a tiny bit of hope right on half-time - Luke Rodgers (the only decent player they have) beat the offside trap, and calmly steered the ball past an otherwise fairly untroubled Matt Glennon.
Second half, and Town can consider themselves lucky as Vale had 2 stonewall penalties turned down, although they created little else, and 3-1 it stayed. A welcome 3 points!!
Andy Ritchie on Town v Port Vale
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The FFA were handing out their new leaflet, covering the usual topics KD, AP, Ambitious Plans etc etc. Interesting reading, although nothing that hasn't already been discussed at length on here / DATM / FFA website.
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The football freestyle bloke was back at half-time. I am led to believe that his return invite was courtesy of a quote in a newspaper somewhere when he said the best reception he received was from us!!
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Remember those chavvy Port Vale supporters trying (unsuccessfully) to goad the Singing Section? The same idiots were at the Train Station moaning at the police because they were thrown out of the ground!! Luckily, even though my Town Shirt / Scarf was much in evidence they left me alone!
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