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Away Ground Guide- Darlington 1883 Wednesday 7 September 2016.

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Darlington 1883 Limited Heritage Park DL14 9AE On 13 December 2013, it was announced that Darlington 1883 and Darlington Rugby Football Club had reached a deal to allow the football team to share their Blackwell Meadows ground, and move back into the town of Darlington.  On 18 March 2016, it was confirmed that Darlington 1883 were to be relocating to Blackwell Meadows at the start of the 2016–17 season (sharing with the rugby club), with expansion plans in place which would expand Blackwell Meadows to hold 3,000 fans. Directions by Car( Sat Nav DL14 9AE)  M60 ( E&N) M62 ( to J29) M1 North A1( M) A1 ( to J58) A68( towards Bishop Aukland) Ist exit on 2 roundabouts ( A68) then 3rd exit next r`about( A688) Ground on left. Admission 2016/17; Adults  £12 Concessions( o/60/students)  £8 Children( 5-16)     £4 Under 5's Free. LATE INFORMATION FROM DARLINGTON......    HERITAGE PARK, BISHOP AUCKLAND DL14 9AE Fo

Stockport County 1 Worcester City 0 ( Vanarama National League- North) 29 August 2016

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County secured all the points today at Edgeley Park after a tussle with Worcester City that the score line of 1-0 makes look closer than it was. For the second match running County rolled their collective sleeves up and scrapped for the points, and all three was but a fair return for a reasonable afternoon’s toil in the sun. Yes the old current bun blazed away, awakening thoughts of a media blizzard of complaints from the Worcester travelling faithful ( all 26 of them), who were housed in the Railway End-alleging sunstroke and worse- wear a hat I say!   Both teams really did toil for much of the game, looking every inch outfits who had played 2 games in 3 days, but County had a bit more to offer than City, whose work rate only picked up from almost none existent , quite late on, and throughout the Worcester finishing was abysmal. For County ….Lloyd grabbed the winner with the tastiest free kick you could wish to see, and took the sponsors M.O.M, but my pick

AFC Telford United 0 Stockport County 0 ( Vanarama National League -North) 27 August 2016

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County came away with a well merited point at New Bucks Head Stadium today, where a battling display saw them held to a 0-0 draw by a lively and combative Telford side. A fair result? Probably, although if two late/ late County strikes had gone in instead of going agonisingly close, it would have been a different story altogether. Having said that though, our hosts, with ex County favourites Gianluca Havern and Micah Evans on board, must have thought that they had done enough to earn a share in the first half which they shaded, if not by a massive margin. For County there was a lot to be happy about….the display of Sam Minihan who, in Duxbury’s continued absence from the starting line up, did a marvellous job of keeping it tight down the left flank.  Minihan....Hurst and an elbow ! And the re-run caught by Andrew Machin..... Duxbury did come on for a late cameo, which turned out to be much more than that, the spring in his step galvanising County in