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. 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.
Not a league club anymore, but Chester fairly famously play in Wales. Meaning they fell foul of the Covid rules when English grounds could host games with crowds, but welsh grounds couldn’t.
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.'?
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.
Crystal Palace were named after the actual Crystal Palace and not the area that became known as that.
The Deva Stadium actually straddles the Welsh border, in Covid there were different rules governing entry to different stands!
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.
