Match Day Thread Grimsby v Hull City
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Port Vale are supposed to be the only club not named after a settlement. Arsenal isn’t a settlement either so I don’t know why they aren’t included. Maybe because originally called Woolwich Arsenal.
The idea was mooted after Leeds City were kicked out to amalgamate them with Huddersfield Town, they both played in blue and white stripes then, and move to Huddersfield as their ground was bigger. Herbert Chapman who had been at Leeds when they were kicked out went to manage Huddersfield. How I wish that plan had come to fruition.
Chapman then proceeded in 4 seasons to win the Cup and the League 3 times, which is, as I love to remind fans of TWS the same as Leeds have managed in over 100 years.
Port Vale were named after a settlement, it’s just not a name of a settlement any more.
PortVale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in EFL League One.Vale are the only English Football League club not to be named after a settlement, their name being a reference to the valley of ports on the Trent and Mersey Canal.
Chapman was manager for two of Huddersfield’s three consecutive titles in the mid 1920s, then left for Arsenal and won his other two titles as you say.Por
Port Vale are supposed to be the only club not named after a settlement. Arsenal isn’t a settlement either so I don’t know why they aren’t included.
The idea was mooted after Leeds City were kicked out to amalgamate them with Huddersfield Town, they both played in blue and white stripes then, and move to Huddersfield as their ground was bigger. Herbert Chapman who had been at Leeds when they were kicked out went to manage Huddersfield. How I wish that plan had come to fruition.
Chapman then proceeded in 4 seasons to win the Cup and the League 3 times, which is, as I love to remind fans of TWS the same as Leeds have managed in over 100 years.
Huddersfield’s third successive league win was under the management of Cecil Potter, who played for City during and immediately after WW1.
Herbert Chapman’s brother Harry was a player and a manager for City in the years before WW1.
That's my understanding, but I'm happy to be educated. I've looked on the link that lets you compare old maps with new, and there doesn't seem to be a record of it.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sid...42049&lon=-4.51373&layers=192&right=ESRIWorld
Chapman was an innovator and brought about a number of changes to the game. My favourite story about him was concerning his well known refusal to give talks in the dressing room as he said they had discussed things all week. He sat in the stands as you got a better view and he said the players wouldn’t hear you shouting above the crowd anyway. One game at Stoke Arsenal we’re losing and the reporters were amazed to see Chapman get out of his seat and march down the tunnel at half time. Arsenal went on to win 3-2 A reporter caught one of the players after the match and said that was a great turn around what did Mr Chapman say at half time? He said don’t bugger around too long in the bath the train leaves at 5.30 the player replied.
As I replied to OLM, PortVale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in EFL League One.Vale are the only English Football League club not to be named after a settlement, their name being a reference to the valley of ports on the Trent and Mersey Canal.
Does this help
https://www.port-vale.co.uk/history/#:~:text=Port Vale Football Club was,of Stoke-on-Trent.
'Port Vale Football Club was formed in 1876 and took its name from the venue of the inaugural meeting at 'Port Vale House' situated in a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent.'?
https://www.port-vale.co.uk/history/#:~:text=Port Vale Football Club was,of Stoke-on-Trent.
'Port Vale Football Club was formed in 1876 and took its name from the venue of the inaugural meeting at 'Port Vale House' situated in a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent.'?
It confirms it wasn’t named after a settlement. The posts above show what Port Vale referred to. Port Vale house dealt with its administration.
The Deva Stadium actually straddles the Welsh border, in Covid there were different rules governing entry to different stands!
There might have been two. I couldn’t work it out.
Port Vale were one of three clubs, the others being Hull City and Derby County, who planned to extend their grounds to host England internationals. City to 80,000 and both Derby and Port Vale to 70,000. The decision in 1948 to play all internationals at Wembley put paid to that. Just as well. Bring in a crowd of 2,000 at a BP of half that size was bad enough.
The stand that was started on at Port Vale and abandoned was the reason the players emerged half way up the stand and walked down some steps for a long time. There are plans of various designs put forward for Derby’s ground on the internet. Supposedly one of them by an Italian architect was the inspiration for the architect who designed the San Siro’s famous towers.
Port Vale reported years ago after a League Cup match against us that there had been record beer sales despite the following not being that large. So hats off to those lads. If there had been an HCST back then imaging the tutting and wailing about that at the next meeting with the club.
