All Things Stockport County

    County turned on a tip top performance to see off Walsall, inflicting on them their first defeat since October at the Bescott last night taking all the points with a superb 2-0 win. Again, there appeared to be considerable daylight twixt the two teams with County always in command and able to draw on one more trick to serve them well when required. Top trickster was Kyle Wootton whose two goals in winning the game for County also hopefully went some way to answering those that cannot see the wood for the trees where our number 19 is concerned- well done that man! Elsewhere DC gave a debut to Phil Bardsley and he shone like the proverbial beacon for the 67 minutes he was on the park before being substituted. His crosses and set pieces were the biz and he looks to be a confident operator who just might serve us well! Collar was in great nick again, taking a prodigious amount of stick in the process starting in the 6 th minute when Daniels` challenge laid him out necessitat

        County saw off a somewhat underwhelming Xmas challenge from Cheshire rivals Crewe Alexandra at Edgeley Park today with as convincing a win as you might wish to see on the coldest of SK3 winter afternoons. In the event 2-0 did not come near to acknowledging the gap twixt the two sides. OK Crewe played some neat football at times but without the merest semblance of a threat to go with it- County just waited for them to eventually lose the ball before commencing to dismantle Lee Bell`s side who I did not see test Hinchliffe with so much as a single shot game long! Madden and Collar did the scoring, Madden taking the M.O.M award. The County captain did look in top form with a variety of silky-smooth touches, but I felt Rydel and Collar were in there for consideration in this respect possibly before him, but I will not quarrel none the less. It was another sterling team showing that would have had DC purring with contentment. Mass County subbings late on notionally opened