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Burton Albion 3 Stockport County 0 ( Football League 1) Tuesday 24 February 2026

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        County slumped to ignominious defeat last night at the hands of lowly Burton Albion who followed a first half in which the   Midlands side   hardly made a single move of merit, by totally blasting County apart in the second . After the first half ,another large Tuesday night County following waited for the blues to show their best game and   see their opponents off, but they waited in vain as …..in a re-run of the early minutes of Saturday`s game….within 2 minutes of the re-start, we were 1 down….. 2 down 8 minutes later as County allowed a side seemingly incapable of putting a decent move together to look like title chasers. Add a howler by Hinchliffe just beyond the hour ,and the scoring for a depressing night in the Midlands was complete. The inquest starts today I guess, from which answers ,might possibly   be required with a certain amount of urgency with some crucially important battles ahead of us in the remainder of the sea...
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Stockport County 4 Wigan Athletic 2 ( Football League 1 ) Saturday 21 February 2026

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        There was early excitement at Edgeley Park today where Gary Caldwell`s Wigan Athletic side started like the proverbial express train going one up inside 2 minutes. County equalised through Brad Hills fairly quickly, before again going behind inside the first 10 minutes. There was no 2 ways about it, County were finding Wigan a tough bunch to handle , but they persevered long enough for Adama Sidibeh to level the scores close to half time. It was clear that County would have to produce something special after the break to see off the Lancastrian side, and that something was the excellent Kyle Wootton who crowned another bravura performance with 2 more nerve-less finishes to secure all the points for the blues. If Wigan`s second half indiscipline contributed to their downfall( reducing them eventually to 9 men)County deserve credit for eventually working their route to victory out- and that man Wootton ……I must say I have never seen a player put so mu...
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