Port Vale
Bottom of the leagueTop
- League position 20th
- Goal difference −4
- Home Record
- Away Record
- Getting Away With It
- Holding Leads
- Comebacks
- Dark Arts Index
- Foul Magnet
- Home & Away Home Well above average Away Well below average This season
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Comebacks
Above average
0.60 pts/game
avg 0.47 · 5th of 24 · Last 3 seasonsavg
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Getting Away With It
Average
−2.3 pts
avg −0.6 · 15th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Holding Leads
Average
2.33 pts/game
avg 2.15 · 7th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Dark Arts Index
Average
2.00 cards/game
avg 2.09 · 12th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Foul Magnet
Average
11.8 fouls/game
avg 12.0 · 15th of 24 · This seasonavg
This season's numbers
- Goals scored 6 =23rd highest of 24
- Goals conceded 10 4th lowest of 24
- Clean sheets 4 =3rd highest of 24
- Shots 109 23rd highest of 24
- Shots on target 33 24th highest of 24
- Share of the shots in their games 51% 13th highest of 24
- Corners won 45 19th highest of 24
- Fouls committed 139 13th highest of 24
- Fouls suffered 118 21st highest of 24
- Yellow cards 20 =12th highest of 24
- Red cards 0 =19th highest of 24
- Points dropped from half-time leads 2 =11th highest of 24
Port Vale and each referee
League games since 2021-22, referees with 3 or more. Records like these are mostly chance: across five seasons, a club's record with a referee in one half of their games tells you nothing about the other half. Which refs are card-happy?
| Referee | P | W-D-L | Pts/g | Cards/g | Ref's usual | Fouls net/g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D Rock | 9 | 3-2-4 | 1.22 | 2.2 | 2.0 | +0.2 |
| R Joyce | 8 | 2-3-3 | 1.13 | 1.0 | 1.9 | −0.5 |
| D Bourne | 7 | 1-2-4 | 0.71 | 2.1 | 2.1 | −3.4 |
| P Howard | 7 | 0-3-4 | 0.43 | 2.4 | 1.7 | +1.7 |
| S Oldham | 7 | 4-1-2 | 1.86 | 1.7 | 1.7 | +0.4 |
| T Reeves | 7 | 4-2-1 | 2.00 | 1.7 | 1.7 | +1.1 |
| C Brook | 6 | 0-2-4 | 0.33 | 1.2 | 2.1 | −1.2 |
| L Swabey | 6 | 1-3-2 | 1.00 | 2.0 | 1.9 | +0.8 |
| M Edwards | 6 | 2-0-4 | 1.00 | 1.5 | 1.7 | −1.0 |
| M Woods | 6 | 1-3-2 | 1.00 | 2.7 | 1.9 | +1.2 |
| P Wright | 6 | 3-0-3 | 1.50 | 1.5 | 1.8 | −2.2 |
| B Toner | 5 | 1-1-3 | 0.80 | 1.4 | 2.1 | −0.2 |
| C Hicks | 5 | 1-1-3 | 0.80 | 2.4 | 1.6 | +1.2 |
| M Coy | 5 | 2-2-1 | 1.60 | 1.6 | 1.5 | −0.4 |
| S Mather | 5 | 1-1-3 | 0.80 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 0.0 |
| T Parsons | 5 | 1-2-2 | 1.00 | 2.4 | 2.2 | −1.2 |
| W Finnie | 5 | 1-2-2 | 1.00 | 2.0 | 1.6 | −0.4 |
| A Kitchen | 4 | 3-0-1 | 2.25 | 1.3 | 1.5 | −1.5 |
| B Speedie | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 2.0 | 1.7 | +1.3 |
| C Breakspear | 4 | 2-0-2 | 1.50 | 1.0 | 2.2 | −3.3 |
| D Drysdale | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 2.0 | 1.7 | +3.8 |
| J Miles | 4 | 0-2-2 | 0.50 | 2.3 | 2.1 | −2.5 |
| J Oldham | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 0.0 |
| N Hair | 4 | 3-1-0 | 2.50 | 3.5 | 1.9 | +4.0 |
| S Gill | 4 | 3-0-1 | 2.25 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 0.0 |
| S Purkiss | 4 | 2-1-1 | 1.75 | 3.0 | 2.1 | +5.8 |
| T Kirk | 4 | 2-1-1 | 1.75 | 2.3 | 2.1 | +0.5 |
| A Byrne | 3 | 1-0-2 | 1.00 | 0.7 | 1.9 | −5.7 |
| A Haines | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 0.3 | 1.6 | +1.0 |
| E Duckworth | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 1.3 | 2.1 | +3.0 |
| J Bell | 3 | 0-1-2 | 0.33 | 2.7 | 1.9 | +1.0 |
| M Corlett | 3 | 0-0-3 | 0.00 | 2.0 | 2.3 | −3.0 |
| R Lewis | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 1.7 | 1.8 | −1.3 |
| R Madley | 3 | 0-2-1 | 0.67 | 1.0 | 2.0 | −0.3 |
| S Allison | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 1.7 | 1.9 | −2.7 |
| S Barrott | 3 | 1-1-1 | 1.33 | 0.7 | 1.8 | +1.3 |
| S Jackson | 3 | 0-1-2 | 0.33 | 1.3 | 2.1 | −1.7 |
| S Tallis | 3 | 0-2-1 | 0.67 | 2.0 | 2.1 | −1.3 |
| T Nield | 3 | 0-1-2 | 0.33 | 1.0 | 1.8 | +2.7 |
Manager changes
Points per game in the 10 league games before and after. If kept: what clubs on the same run of form averaged when they kept their manager. Does sacking the manager work?
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Darren Moore out · Jon Brady in 28 Dec 2025 · 24th at the time
- Before
- 0.30
- After
- 1.10
- If kept
- 0.91
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Andy Crosby out · Darren Moore in 5 Feb 2024 · 20th at the time
- Before
- 1.10
- After
- 0.30
- If kept
- 1.29
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Darrell Clarke out · Andy Crosby (interim) in 17 Apr 2023 · 18th at the time
- Before
- 0.60
- After
- 0.75
- If kept
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