Port Vale hoping to avoid unwanted record
March 11, 2008
League One side Port Vale go into tonight’s match with rivals Crewe Alexandra with more than local pride to play for.
Vale are looking to halt a run of nine away defeats in succession – their worst run since 1971/2.
Even more astonishingly if the Alex were to claim maximum points this evening it would be Vale’s worst away run for over one hundred years. In 1895/6 the Valiants lost fifteen away matches on the bounce which is their current record.
The poor run of form which has seen Vale all but relegated to League Two began with the FA Cup defeat to non league Chasetown and has been followed up with reversals at Cheltenham, Notts Forest, Swansea, Hartlepool, Bristol Rovers, Doncaster, Millwall and Carlisle.
Within this period twenty goals have been conceded (which isn’t too bad I guess!) whilst only seven have been scored.
Boss Lee Sinnott has blamed a lack of continuity in the side as the cause of the poor run but Vale now need a minor miracle to avoid relegation to the league’s basement division.
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