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Let`s Hear it For Adama & Benoni !

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A short piece, by County Historian Ian Watts ,which  gives this blog the opportunity to join Ian in loudly applauding two young men who have now been capped at full international level whilst with the Hatters.     Congratulations to both County players who, over the last few days, have joined the list of players to feature for their country's senior international team whilst on the books of Stockport County.   Adama Sidibeh.     Adama had already played several times for Gambia before joining us in January, but in a closed door friendly versus Turkey on Friday he started against World Cup qualifiers Iran. Sadly, he had to be substituted in the first half due to injury, as his teammates lost 3-1 after leading at the break.   Meanwhile around 1 o'clock GMT on Sunday our young Icelandic striker Benoný Breki Andrésson made his first step up from the U21s, coming on after 72 minutes at Japan's national stadium for his debut full internatio...

Bolton Wanderers 4 Stockport County 1 ( EFL League 1 Play Off Final ) Sunday 24 May 2026

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        County`s quest for a place in the Championship hit the buffers today at Wembley where they slumped to 1-4 defeat at the hands of Bolton Wanderers. Anyone not at the game would conclude that County were outplayed by a better side, but they would not be telling the whole story. For sure Wanderers started firing on all cylinders taking just 3 minutes to surge into the lead through a goal by Ruben Rodrigues, but from there matters changed fairly rapidly as County equalised through Adama Sidibeh   just 8 minutes later, only for County`s equaliser to be ruled out by VAR and an unbelievably naïve `explanation ` by Referee Mr Josh Smith –that was just plain wrong. No matter, and not for the first time, County had fallen foul of Refereeing `inadequacies ` in Play Off Finals ,and had a mountain to climb, which they started to quite impressively- Sidibeh feeding hungrily off prime service from Bailey to again equalise for the blues. This one stood, but I ...