All Things Stockport County

After a cracking attacking performance that certainly left the Macclesfield manager with more questions about his side for the coming season than the man in charge of County, the team now move on to a game against newly promoted EFL Championship side Bolton Wanderers. So far the pre-season games have proved a pleasant respite to the Wanderers fans from the off-pitch trials and tribulations. Their financial issues seem never ending, what with failing to pay players' promotion bonuses on time, followed by a recent winding up petition from the Inland Revenue - both issues apparently now sorted according to press reports. At times you don't need to look too hard to see that throwing money after the Premier League millions is often a foolish business plan. I said they had given their fans respite but that came to an end on Saturday, as Bolton lost for the first time this season. To date despite not always impressing they had enough to win games in England an...

County strode beyond the challenge of Cheshire neighbours, and Vanarama Premier side Macclesfield Town, with great assurance at Edgeley Park today in front of around a 1000 highly delighted County fans in a decent gate of 1120. Vanarama   Premier side, Macclesfield may be, but they were made to look distinctly ordinary in the second half as County( 1-2 down at the break), swept imperiously   to a 5-2 victory . 183 from Macc I had spent the morning reading .....`Klopp warns clubs that Coutinho is not for sale even at £72 million'.....`Leicester kick back a bid of close to £30 million from Roma' and...yawn.....`Costa   chooses Athletico , after rejecting a Chinese offer worth £570,000 a week' in the `i' of all papers, so to see some real world /honest football played by players I can still identify with , was truly heartening. It was also timely reassurance, if indeed reassurance was needed, that County, under James Gannon's stewardship,...

To Paint. Across an ocean of canvas white A stroke of beauty comes to light The patterns even, contrast, and fair Complexity in the mind created with care Do not allow a single smear To blotch the canvas and make unclear What blossoms made with hand and mind What intricacies you will find Jacob Traver Let's face it..... there is nothing quite so irritating as someone afflicted by `Pretentious Gittery'....so I will open with an apology. You will by now realise that   I have my pretentious git head on today and there is more than the above opener in store for you dear reader should you venture further into this   offering , an update on an amazing couple of days even for Help the Hatters! It started on Wednesday, which you may know is not a day set aside for Help the Hatters   E P Work Party's. With the Cheadle End paint work almost complete, but still needing some attention, Ray, Keith and Liverpool Hatter Richard ignore...