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Stockport County 4 Doncaster Rovers 2 ( Football League 1) Monday 29 December 2025

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      Stockport County signed off for 2025 in style with   a much needed , and well deserved, 4-2 win against Doncaster Rovers at Edgeley Park last night. The place was packed once again   ,and County , with Manager Dave Challinor ill and watching the game from the back of the stand, chose their final game of the calendar year to reward their supporters with a display of goal scoring to warm the coldest of their hearts on another very cold evening . Nit-Pickers will say perhaps that the game was a bit of a curate’s egg ,but most watching   , as the goals went in, would have not recognised that description as being anything like accurate , instead being so….. so pleased to see their team scoring a decent clutch of goals again and , at last, remembering how to kill a game off in emphatic style in that game`s dying embers.   Doncaster , still smarting from the defeat we had inflicted upon them at their place not long ago, took the lead midway thro...
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Stockport County 1 Lincoln City 2 ( Football League 1) Friday 26 December 2025

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          There was no Xmas cheer to speak of , for County supporters at Edgeley Park today, where the under-par blues gave one of their poorer performances , losing 2-1 to high flying Lincoln City. The Imps   looked every bit a side perched up there in second spot in League 1 whilst , at times County gave a passable impression of a side struggling at the wrong end of the table. For County , the rot set in early and they could have been 2 or 3 goals down by half time, instead of 1- a goal put away with aplomb by Reece Hackett , but set up by poor defending , most notably a terrible attempted clearance by Brad Hills that left Hinchliffe stranded and easy meat for City`s eager forwards. County shaped better for a time after the break – equalising via Jayden Fevrier who spared Ollie Norwood`s blushes by forcing his follow up effort home after the County captain had seen his penalty saved by George Wickens the Imps keeper. But , despite DC ringing the...
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