STAGSNET`S STATISTICAL PREVIEW

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STAGSNET`S STATISTICAL PREVIEW
31st March 2003 20:49

The Stags and Port Vale are two sides who played each other in both sections of the old third division before 1957-58 due to the midway geographical position of both sides. To prove the point in the stats shown below, the teams first met in the old div 3 (N) in the 1936-37 season.Two seasons later, they played each other in the southern section which they also did in the first full league season after the 2nd World War and in that season, Port Vale notched their biggest of total eight wins at the Mill to a 3-0 scoreline on September 14, 1946. And in the 1952-53 and 1953-54 seasons they again played in the northern section. More recently, the teams were promoted together from the old fourth division in 1985-86 and a Stags 2-1 home win just before Christmas was a start of a winning streak with eight wins out of nine putting the Mighty Stags firmly on the promotion trail, the Stags finishing third and Vale fourth in the last season before the introdution of the current play-off system. Both teams have also featured players who when playing in Sweden played for the same Swedish club – IFK Munkfors – but not at the same time. Martin Foyle (later Aldershot, Oxford, Port Vale) in 1982, Ian Juryeff (who scored four times for Stags in a 7-1-mauling of Halifax in 1984 featured in the vintage Stags section) in 1983. The first meeting between the teams produced a 7-1 win – and that is the Stags biggest - on March 27, 1937, to avenge a 5-1 defeat at Port Vale – but not at Vale Park – on November 21, 1936.
And in the 1953-54 season, the Stags were one of only FOUR teams to score at Port Vale when they drew 1-1 on April 5, 1954. The first away win at Port Vale was recorded as a 4-1 on Easter Saturday 1977 – a game which is featured in the Vintage section – also on video. This win was the first of a total eight in the memourable promotion run in at the end of the 1976-77 championship season. And the up to date last win at Port Vale happened on Easter Monday, 1989 – at the end of that season the Stags beat all the teams who were promoted to the old 2nd division – the others being Wolves on April 1, 1989, to a tune of 3-1 at Field Mill – and Sheffield United 2-1 away on April 25 – incidentally the same scoreline as at Port Vale! Not only the 7-1 stuffing way back in 1937 explain the good Stags home goal difference against Vale – also the 5-0 – all goals in the first half – on January 24, 1981 – and the Kevin Kent show in the 4-0 win just before Christmas 1987 – although Stags have won 10 of 21 previous Field Mill outings compared to Port Vale's eight – and NO league game at Field Mill has been goalless!. Earlier this season the Stags lost 2-4 at Vale after a poor showing despite scoring after only 29 seconds – incidentally by ex-Valiant Wayne Corden - and that game was to be the last for Stuart Watkiss as Stags manager.

Played for both sides: Allen Tankard, Wayne Corden, Kevin Kent, Gary Ford, Kevin Pilkington.
Managed both sides: Freddie Steele (managed the Stags when they reached the 5th round in the FA Cup 1950-51 and Port Vale when they reached the semi-finals three seasons later).

Home stats: P 21, W 10, D 3, L 8, GF 40, GA 25
Away stats: P 22, W 3, D 8, L 11, GF 22, GA 43

Season Home Date Away Date

1936-37 7-1 1937-03-27 1-5 1936-11-21 Div 3 (N)
1938-39 2-0 1939-01-28 0-3 1938-09-24 Div 3 (S)
1946-47 0-3 1946-09-14 1-4 1947-01-18 Div 3 (S)
1952-53 1-0 1953-03-28 1-1 1952-11-08 Div 3 (N)
1953-54 1-2 1953-08-19 1-1 1954-04-05 Div 3 (N)
1959-60 6-3 1960-04-25 1-4 1959-10-12 Div 3 (old)
1963-64 1-1 1963-09-09 0-1 1963-08-26 Div 3 (old)
1964-65 2-2 1964-09-28 2-2 1964-10-05 Div 3 (old)
1970-71 2-0 1970-09-28 0-2 1971-01-09 Div 3 (old)
1971-72 0-1 1971-11-13 0-1 1972-03-04 Div 3 (old)
1975-76 3-1 1976-01-03 2-2 1976-04-20 Div 3 (old)
1976-77 2-1 1976-12-28 4-1 1977-04-09 Div 3 (old)
1980-81 5-0 1981-01-24 0-0 1980-08-30 Div 4 (old)
1981-82 1-3 1982-02-06 0-0 1981-09-12 Div 4 (old)
1982-83 0-2 1982-09-11 1-4 1983-01-29 Div 4 (old)
1984-85 1-1 1985-03-13 1-0 1984-08-25 Div 4 (old)
1985-86 2-1 1985-12-22 0-0 1985-08-24 Div 4 (old)
1986-87 0-1 1987-01-01 2-3 1987-04-18 Div 3 (old)
1987-88 4-0 1987-12-20 1-1 1988-05-07 Div 3 (old)
1988-89 0-1 1988-12-26 2-1 1989-03-27 Div 3 (old)
1992-93 0-1 1993-04-10 0-3 1993-04-27 Div 2
2002-03 (at Vale Park) 2-4 2002-11-30 Div 2

Svante Bernhard aka Sweden Stag (pictured below, centre)

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