Cullerton Bags Hat-Trick but Vale Suffer Cup Woe ; Vale Stormed Into a Four-Goal Lead Thanks to a Hat Trick From the Returning Mick Cullerton but in the End It Still Wasn't Enough, Writes Phil Sherwin.

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Port Vale........................................4 Hereford United .......................2 Vale Park, League Cup, 1st Round First Leg, 18th August 1975 VALE had begun the league season with a goalless draw at Hereford and faced the same opposition at home two days later in a League Cup-tie. Mick Cullerton was in line to make his home debut on his second spell with the club after a Pounds 4,000 move from Stafford Rangers.

Vale took the lead in the 24th minute. A free-kick from Brian Horton was headed on by Derek Brownbill and Cullerton scored with a low angled drive at the far post. Four minutes later it was 2-0 when Gary Dulson raced clear down the left and from his waist high cross Terry Bailey flung himself forward to score with a superb diving header.

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Cullerton Bags Hat-Trick but Vale Suffer Cup Woe ; Vale Stormed Into a Four-Goal Lead Thanks to a Hat Trick From the Returning Mick Cullerton but in the End It Still Wasn't Enough, Writes Phil Sherwin.

It became 3-0 in the 31st minute when a move between Brownbill and Geoff Morris led to Horton finding Cullerton at the far post and he duly scored from a difficult angle.

The Vale fans were in dreamland two minutes before the break when they notched their fourth goal ...

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