The Iron Man & the Stuff of Legend

No not Iron Man from Marvel!

Oct 25, 2023

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You are going to be disappointed if you think this article might be a review for a new movie in the Iron Man Franchise from Marvel Studios. Our iron man isn’t Robert Downey Jr. It is in fact Freddie Steele who became one of Port Vale’s most loved and respected managers.

And Iron Man? Well, that’s from sports reporter Bob Ferrier’s football club news roundup published in the 1951 Christmas Eve edition of the Daily Mirror under the headline ‘Iron Man Going Home Again.’

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