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Stockport County 2 Morecambe 0 ( Football League 2 ) Saturday 13 April 2024

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        A superbly clinical performance by Stockport County saw them clinch promotion to League 1 with a 2-0 win against Morecambe in front of more than 10000 today at Edgeley Park. County showed just how to cope with the nerves and anxieties engendered by the occasion with a thoroughly ruthless showing that saw the door slammed tight shut on Ged Brannon`s side by a strike from Tanto on 8 minutes followed by Horsfall`s header in first half added time. Tanto had to be substituted just 20 minutes in, but if this disadvantaged the blues, the visitors just could not find a way of capitalising on the situation as County imposed an iron grip on proceedings that enabled Ben Hinchliffe to claim another clean sheet not having a single shot to stop all game! Another example of superb game management had seen County home with their 4-point lead atop L2 still intact . A win at Meadow Lane on Tuesday sorts the title for County and they did enough today to suggest that is very much on the

Colchester United 1 Stockport County 2 ( Football League 2 ) Tuesday 9 April 2024

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          County pretty much made promotion a certainty tonight in windswept Essex with an important   2-1 win against a feisty Colchester side, thus with other key players in the title race winning too , duly kept their 4-point lead intact at the top of the L2 table. Only the most outlandish set of circumstances can thwart ……I mean delay the blues now, and the   maths would seem to deem that to be unlikely. A single point against Morecambe will remove that small element of doubt, but it is a small element now after County had to dig deep and win ugly against a side that did relatively well in the circumstances but must have thoroughly disappointed the purists and any neutrals present with an irritating display of bog-standard dark arts that played the officials like a Stradivarius game long. County`s performance in response was not their best- at times putting   a magnificent Tuesday evening following of not far short of 800 through a nervous hell. But, as I have said before