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Stockport County 0 Mansfield Town 1 ( Football League 1 ) Tuesday 21 April 2026

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      County`s promotion push took an almighty knock last night as Nigel Clough`s   Mansfield Town took all the points with a 1-0 win under the lights at Edgeley Park. It was a result that always looked on the cards on an evening when the blues were constantly struggling in vain to put together coherent moves. There were good performances in the County mix for sure…Mothersille again lifted his personal performance bar with his best showing in a County shirt yet…..and Louis Barry showed more than occasional glimpses of what we know he can produce in the hour he was pitch side, but elsewhere whilst Wootton, and Pye worked hard and Edun and Osborn put themselves about well at times , County found the Stags too tough an opponent to digest when they really needed 3 points. …………………………………..     With the 11 names announced earlier, ….I was expecting Tayo Edun to be played out of position on the right side of a back 4, but it was interesting to see Ben O...

Exeter City 3 Stockport County 3 ( Football League 1 ) Saturday 18 April 2026

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          County put their travelling supporters through a range of emotions at sun lit St James` Park today against relegation threatened Exeter City-   as they swept into a first half lead via a Malik Mothersille goal……Josh Stokes doubling the blues advantage from a Mothersille assist 20 minutes later. If we had maintained the 2-0 lead until half time things might have turned out differently, but Exeter took advantage of slack work at the back to nick one back as Reece Cole fired home from the edge of the box. I still found myself thinking County could build from this position, but we needed decisive defending and Exeter were quick to punish them for failing to clear their lines- we faced the final 20 minutes therefore with the scores level at 2—2. Just 7 minutes later and I thought County had sorted matters as Odin Bailey capped a decent showing as substitute with a smartly taken goal. Surely…at 3-2 , with less than 15 minutes left, the match w...