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Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Long-serving Port Vale defender Smith to leave
Defender Nathan Smith is to leave Port Vale after 16 years with the club. Smith, who came through the club's academy, made 428 appearances and scored 22 goals for the Valiants after making his senior debut in the 2016-17 season. Advertisement The 29-year-old was twice named Player of the Season and twice helped Vale win promotion to League One - in 2021-22 and 2024-25. "Nathan Smith has been an incredible servant to this football club and leaves with our very best wishes," Vale manager Darren Moore told the club website. "I'm sure I speak on behalf of every Vale supporter when I say he will forever be part of the club. "It's hard for us all to say goodbye to such a top player and important character, but we feel this is the right time for Smudge to take on a new challenge. "For this season to end in promotion is fitting, and we're all delighted for him that he's departing on the back of such a fantastic achievement for the club."
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Long-serving Port Vale defender Smith to leave
Defender Nathan Smith is to leave Port Vale after 16 years with the club. Smith, who came through the club's academy, made 428 appearances and scored 22 goals for the Valiants after making his senior debut in the 2016-17 season. The 29-year-old was twice named Player of the Season and twice helped Vale win promotion to League One - in 2021-22 and 2024-25. "Nathan Smith has been an incredible servant to this football club and leaves with our very best wishes," Vale manager Darren Moore told the club website. "I'm sure I speak on behalf of every Vale supporter when I say he will forever be part of the club. "It's hard for us all to say goodbye to such a top player and important character, but we feel this is the right time for Smudge to take on a new challenge. "For this season to end in promotion is fitting, and we're all delighted for him that he's departing on the back of such a fantastic achievement for the club."
BBC News
12-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Long-serving Port Vale defender Smith to leave
Defender Nathan Smith is to leave Port Vale after 16 years with the who came through the club's academy, made 428 appearances and scored 22 goals for the Valiants after making his senior debut in the 2016-17 29-year-old was twice named Player of the Season and twice helped Vale win promotion to League One - in 2021-22 and 2024-25."Nathan Smith has been an incredible servant to this football club and leaves with our very best wishes," Vale manager Darren Moore told the club website. "I'm sure I speak on behalf of every Vale supporter when I say he will forever be part of the club."It's hard for us all to say goodbye to such a top player and important character, but we feel this is the right time for Smudge to take on a new challenge."For this season to end in promotion is fitting, and we're all delighted for him that he's departing on the back of such a fantastic achievement for the club."
BBC News
23-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Courage and composure' crucial
Port Vale boss Darren Moore has called on his players to keep cool heads ahead of the final two matches of the season as they aim to seal promotion to League Valiants currently sit second in League Two and will clinch an immediate return to the third tier as early as Saturday if they win at AFC Wimbledon and fourth-placed Walsall fail to beat Accrington Stanley."The words that you'd use for the team are courage and composure," Moore told BBC Radio Stoke."I think those two [words] will be evident over the next couple of games, but we've got a great trust in this group - they are a joy to work with."And it is the club's trust in Moore, who was retained as the club's manager following last season's relegation, which looks set to be repaid with an instant return to League the former West Brom and Sheffield Wednesday boss is not leaving anything up to chance."If you look at this season, it's the most contested League Two for many seasons," he added."It looks likely it will go down to the last game [of the season], so credit to everyone. What we're doing at Vale here is focussing on us."Monday's last-gasp draw at home against Grimsby has kept Moore's men on course for promotion, and after the match, the 50-year-old confirmed club captain Ben Garrity has been ruled out of the final run-in through injury."He's ran his race for this season," Moore said after Garrity limped off in the 77th minute of Vale's 3-2 defeat at Carlisle United on Good Friday."So, we thank him for his efforts on the pitch, but now he'll support the team from off the field, where he'll continue his captain's role."
New York Times
23-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Mariah Carey Did Not Copy Her Christmas Hit From Another Song, Judge Rules
'All I Want for Christmas Is You,' the perennial hit song by Mariah Carey that has become a holiday ear worm for the ages, was not stolen from other songwriters, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled this week. In addition to dismissing the music copyright case, the judge, Mónica Ramírez Almadani, ordered the two songwriters who filed the lawsuit to pay at least part of the lawyers' fees for Ms. Carey and Walter Afanasieff, her co-writer and a co-defendant. The lawsuit, which sought $20 million in damages, relied on music experts who claimed 'similarities in isolation,' the judge found, but who failed to put those similarities in the context of the entire song. The judge said that the plaintiffs had not met the burden of showing substantial similarities. The plaintiffs — Andy Stone, who uses the stage name Vince Vance, and Troy Powers — wrote the song in 1988, court documents show. Their song, also called 'All I Want for Christmas Is You,' was recorded by Vince Vance and the Valiants and released in 1989. It became a hit, appearing on Billboard's Hot Country chart in 1994 and returning to the chart multiple times in the 1990s. Ms. Carey's song of the same name was released in late 1994 on her Christmas album, 'Merry Christmas.' In the lawsuit, lawyers for Mr. Stone and Mr. Powers said that the close timing of the success of the earlier song and Ms. Carey's release 'points to the overwhelming likelihood that Carey and Afanasieff, both career musicians and songwriters, who knew the importance of charting on Billboard, had access to the Vance work.' The lawsuit said that the Vance song 'contains a unique linguistic structure where a person, disillusioned with expensive gifts and seasonal comforts, wants to be with their loved one' and writes to Santa Claus. Lawyers for the plaintiffs also said that Ms. Carey and Mr. Afanasieff should have sought a license or other permission from Mr. Stone and Mr. Powers because of that 'unique and original' two-part sequence. The lyrical phrase 'All I want for Christmas is you' is at the end of every verse throughout the Vance song, and that phrase also appears throughout Ms. Carey's song, the lawsuit said. It also said that her song used more than 50 percent of Mr. Vance's work, in the lyrics and the chords. Lawyers for Ms. Carey and Mr. Afanasieff said that the music and the lyrics of the two songs were completely different. They said that the lawsuit was 'absurdly relying on' references 'to snow, mistletoe, presents under Christmas trees and wanting a loved one for Christmas' that appear in both songs. They said that 'the human condition, and the need for the company of another above all else at Christmastime,' were not themes that were protectable by copyright. Judge Ramírez Almadani heard testimony from two expert musicologists for each side, but she ultimately agreed with those testifying for Ms. Carey and Mr. Afanasieff. One of those experts found no significant harmonic similarities between the songs, because the chord progressions and harmonic rhythms are 'very different' in both works, the judge said in her ruling. The expert also found that the two songs share only five words: mistletoe, Santa Claus/Santa, snow, stocking and Christmas, according to the ruling. The phrases referring to the holiday season — 'all I want for Christmas is you' and 'underneath the Christmas tree' — as well as 'just one thing' and 'come true' were all part of a holiday vocabulary long before either of the songs was written, the judge said. Lawyers for each side were not immediately available on Saturday. Over the past three decades, Ms. Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' has become one of the longest-charting singles in any genre, spending 65 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100.
