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I could respond to those last two posts with one gentleman’s name but politeness and good taste prevents me from doing so.



If I were you, I’d let it go! More worried about Mansfield myself!

Not being a native of South Cheshire, I don’t quite get the hostility between the Vale and Crewe. Growing up, it was Yeovil and Weymouth for me – “Chim chiminey, Chim chiminey, Chim chim cher-oo, we hate the *******s in claret and blue!” – but when the likes of Micky Adams is disrespectful to a legend he’ll never be, Marc Richards goads Artell (I think it was) after scoring an own goal, Luke Rodgers’s provocative gesture in front of the Crewe bench, and the vitriol spewing out of the Ice Cream Stand last weekend – then sometimes I do.

But the thing that struck me most after Monday’s game was the Vale reaction on P&G. It was a “poor game between two poor teams”. Their attempt at watering down a dramatic equaliser to end an exciting match. And then there were the fans calling for the Vale to rip out half their squad before next season. I admit they look like a team of misfits at the minute with no foundation (unlike us who have Garrett, Ng, Ray, Wintle, Jones, Ainley & Pickering to build around), but with time that Vale team could gel and evolve. Another knee-jerk reaction to missing out on 3 pts, (they did look crest-fallen on the goal-cam though ). Had the game finished on 92 minutes, would we have heard any of that??