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Port Vale focus must 'go down to wire'
Port Vale midfielder Ryan Croasdale says the team have to remain concentrated "down to the wire" after two late goals deprived them of their first league win of the looked set to pick up their first three points of the League One campaign on Tuesday, leading early pace-setters Stevenage 1-0 with two minutes two goals in three minutes from Jamie Read - both emanating from long throw-ins - stunned Vale, with Stevenage's winner coming in the first of seven minutes of added result leaves the Valiants with two points from their first four games of the season."It was really frustrating," Croasdale told BBC Radio Stoke."We needed that second goal to kill off the game and to concede two set-piece goals right at the end was very disappointing." Vale's late frustration came after a battling performance three days earlier when they secured a goalless draw at Burton, having played for 75 minutes with 10 men after captain George Byers was sent said having dug-in for that point in difficult circumstances, letting things slip against Stevenage was hard to take."I think it is a concentration thing," he said."We were down to 10 men on Saturday and the lads put a shift in but coming into the latter part of games - especially at this level where we're playing better teams - you've got to go down to the wire with your concentration but obviously we've had a lapse and conceded two."We always knew that set-pieces, even at League Two level, was going to be an issue but we've got to learn quickly - learning on the job I suppose - and we've got to put it right." 'Always trying to improve' Croasdale is playing in the third tier for the first time this season and came into the campaign determined to prove he could perform at that last season's League Two champions - and fellow promotion winners -Doncaster coming to Vale Park on Saturday, the 30-year-old believes a first victory feels close. "Apart from the first half at Rotherham, we've performed really well and up until the last 10 minutes [against Stevenage] we've performed well - but it's about fine margins," he said."We do lots of video analysis and have two or three set-piece sessions throughout the week. We'll have a chat about what happened and hopefully we can put it right on Saturday."We're always trying to improve and always trying to learn. If we can get that first win on the board, it will give everyone a boost."
The Guardian
28 minutes ago
- The Guardian
Prolific Salah and Caldentey rewarded with PFA player of the year awards
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah and Arsenal's Mariona Caldentey have won the 2025 awards for the Professional Footballers' Association players' player of the year. Salah becomes the first player to collect the prestigious men's award three times. It would have been a shock had the Egypt forward not triumphed on Tuesday night at the ceremony in Manchester, given he scored 29 Premier League goals and created a further 18 as Liverpool won the title last season, the 33-year-old enjoying one of his very best campaigns of an already gilded career. Salah said: 'I look at myself now, a guy coming from Egypt and making it to the top level, making history today, it's something that makes me so proud.' Caldentey also shone in her first season as an Arsenal player, with the Spain forward helping the club to end an 18-year wait for European glory by defeating her former team Barcelona in the Champions League final in Lisbon. Along the way, Caldentey scored 19 times in all competitions, including seven Champions League goals. She becomes the third Arsenal player to receive the PFA women's award, following in the footsteps of Kim Little in 2013 and Vivianne Miedema in 2019. Caldentey spent July this year in Switzerland, starring for Spain at Euro 2025. She scored the opening goal in the final against England in Basel before ending with a runners-up medal after the Lionesses prevailed on penalties. 'Everyone at the club has made it so easy for me and they helped me from the start and it just feels like home and I'm happy to be here,' Caldentey said. 'If you ask me my position I don't know what to answer, but I just enjoy it on the pitch and I just want to help my teammates. They've made everything so easy for me so it has been an incredible pleasure.' Caldentey's new Arsenal teammate Olivia Smith is the women's young player of the year, with the equivalent men's award going to Aston Villa's Morgan Rogers. Smith, a 21-year-old Canada forward, became the most expensive signing in women's football history when she arrived in north London from Liverpool for £1m last month. Smith scored seven goals in 20 appearances last season and collected a series of player-of-the-year awards on Merseyside. Rogers turned 23 last month and is already a senior England international after scoring 14 goals in 54 appearances in all competitions for Villa last season. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion James Trafford has become the first goalkeeper to win the Championship player of the year award after keeping 29 clean sheets and conceding only 16 league goals as Burnley were promoted from the second tier. No player has registered more clean sheets or conceded fewer goals during a season in the Football League's history and it is no surprise that Trafford's excellence prompted his recent return to Manchester City. Overall, though, it was very much a night for strikers, with Richard Kone collecting the League One honour for the attacking performances for Wycombe that led to him moving to Queens Park Rangers. Bromley's prolific forward Michael Cheek received the League Two prize, while there were special merit awards for the former England manager Sir Gareth Southgate and the USA head coach, Emma Hayes.
The Independent
29 minutes ago
- The Independent
Aristocrat Constance Marten launches bid to overturn conviction for killing baby while on the run
Aristocrat Constance Marten has launched a bid to overturn her conviction for killing her newborn daughter while on the run from police. Baby Victoria perished in a 'thin and flimsy' tent after Marten and her partner Mark Gordon, a convicted rapist, took her off-grid to stop the infant from being taken into care. The parents are facing years in jail after they were both convicted of gross negligence manslaughter in a retrial this summer. In a separate trial last year, the couple were also found guilty of concealing their daughter's birth, child cruelty and perverting the course of justice by hiding her body in a rubbish-filled plastic shopping bag. An appeal bid following their first trial was previously rejected. However Marten, 38, has now lodged a fresh application at the Court of Appeal seeking permission to appeal her manslaughter conviction, according to court officials. Over the course of the two drawn-out trials, it emerged the couple had carefully concealed Marten's pregnancy with Victoria – their fifth child – before going on the run to stop her from being taken into care. Their first four children had been removed by a family court – a decision which the parents claimed was a miscarriage of justice driven by a 'corrupt' social services system. She gave birth in secret in a holiday cottage before they frantically travelled the country with the baby hidden inside Marten's coat – at first by road and later in taxis paid for with cash from her trust fund – after their car caught fire on the M61. They decided to settle 'off-grid' in the South Downs with little more than some sleeping bags and a cheap tent amid a nationwide manhunt after police found the remains of a placenta in their burnt-out car. But Victoria died after Marten fell asleep with her zipped inside her jacket as they sheltered in the tent in January 2023. After the unanimous guilty verdict for manslaughter was read out in July, Marten, wearing a blue top and dark trousers, later shouted 'it's a scam' from the dock. Gordon, 51, has previously served 22 years in a Florida prison for raping a woman armed with a knife and hedge clippers in a 1989 home invasion when he was 14 years old. A further charge against Gordon for failing to comply with his sex offender notification requirements while on the run was this week dropped by prosecutors. Prosecutor Joel Smith KC told the Old Bailey that in light of his recent conviction for manslaughter, the Crown Prosecution Service took the view that it was no longer in the public interest to pursue the charge. Gordon, who appeared by video-link from Belmarsh prison unrepresented by a lawyer, seemed uncertain when asked to enter a plea. Judge Mark Lucraft KC told him: 'If you plead not guilty that will bring proceedings to an end.' Gordon then responded: 'Of course, not guilty.' Mr Smith then offered no evidence and invited Judge Lucraft to formally acquit Gordon. The parents are due to be sentenced on 15 September.
