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Peterborough United 3 Stockport County 0 ( Football League 1 ) Thursday 20 November 2025

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        “Top of the League ,We`re `aving a laugh” some County supporters sang late on in the game last night, but we weren`t laughing on a night that County`s slip showed alarmingly allowing Luke Williams` Peterborough United side   to claim   a 3-0 win at their wintry London Road stadium. It was a dire night weather-wise ,and County`s performance mirrored the prevailing conditions, as the green shirted blues went 1 down within 6 minutes of the start and never quite recovered. Yes, they made a better effort after the   break with Nathan Lowe on for Benony Andresson, but I can only recall home keeper Alex Bass being called on to make 1 save of any note and we had to wait until the third minute of added time for that. When Ollie Norwood was in the team, I cannot recall anyone ever suggesting that we were a `one man team` but he did quietly massage the blues into coherent shape with his under-stated excellence and boy does his absence show up our ...

Stockport County 0 Luton Town 3 ( Football League 1) Saturday 8 November 2025

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          A County team, cruelly shorn of captain and inspiration Ollie Norwood were outplayed, and outclassed at Edgeley Park today when rookie manager Jack Wilshire`s Luton Town team   took all the available points with a well-deserved 3-0 win. It was a truly awful display by County , one that begs the obvious question ` how can the absence of 1 man, however good he might be, have such a deleterious effect on a team?` and it did, it really did ,the blues   being somewhat fortunate to end up just 3 down. Point to a missed penalty early in the second half, and having to play the last 10 minutes of normal time with 10 men, as Dodgson earned himself a second yellow and saw red ,if you must,   but neither of these moments really influenced the   game`s outcome- that was settled much earlier, and to be fair Luton scored some good goals , and well merited their victory , so   we`ll take it on the chin and go again! ………………………………. ...