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The 1956–57 season was Port Vale’s forty-fifth season of football in the Football League and their third successive season (thirty-second overall) in the Second Division. An unmitigated disaster from start to finish they were relegated in bottom place with just 22 points from 42 games. It was the end of an era as the reputation of ‘the Steele Curtain’ had taken a severe blow and its architect Freddie Steele left the club in January.