Port Vale: Ex-Valiants striker Portwood dies
FORMER Port Vale striker Cliff Portwood has died at the age of 74 after a long battle with lung disease.
Portwood signed for Vale for £750 in 1959 and was the club's leading scorer in the 1960/61 season with 26 goals, under manager Norman Low.
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GOAL-DEN MEMORIES: Striker Cliff Portwood hit 26 goals for Port Vale in the 1960/61 season.
He scored 38 goals in 72 games in his two seasons with the club before being sold to Grimsby for £6,000 in 1961, and subsequently spent six years at Portsmouth.
Following his retirement in 1970, he emigrated to South Africa and went on to enjoy a successful recording career as a singer in Australia and America.
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He recorded the song 'Up There Oh England' with seven members of England's World Cup winning squad in 1982 – ready for the tournament held that year in Spain.
But licensing wrangles around the B-side delayed its release and by the time it was ready, England had been sent home from Spain, crashing out in the second round.
It took 28 years for the song – an adaptation of an Australian hit single 'Up There Cazaly' – to be rediscovered, re-mastered and released in time for the 2010 World Cup.
Born in Salford, he had settled back in England in 2008 and lived in Alton, Hampshire.
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Comments
by bycarsforever
Wednesday, January 11 2012, 3:50PM
“Cliff was pure class, RIP "twinkle toes"”
by algy7
Wednesday, January 11 2012, 2:23PM
“I agree with both ValiantFosse and PFTalke, Cliff Portwood was a lovely player to watch and support. We, my gang of mates and I, who used to stand behind the Bycars, gave him the nick-name of "juke-box" because of his singing. But it will be his football talent that will be long remembered, I was shocked and surprised when he was sold to Grimsby.
R.I.P. Cliff.”
by ValiantFosse
Wednesday, January 11 2012, 10:59AM
“Great player, the sort Norman Low used to find. RIP Cliff”
by PFTalke
Wednesday, January 11 2012, 10:27AM
“RIP Cliff Portwood. Cliff played in my first match supporting the Vale against Chesterfield and scored one of the 7 goals for the Vale. That was me hooked”