All Things Stockport County

      This was serious business, in fact very serious business indeed! Mansfield gave us a comprehensive lesson in footballing skills at Field Mill earlier in the season and, prior to today`s match, they stood second, one place behind us in the division whilst still playing progressively having been beaten just once in 23 starts. Thus, few at Edgeley Park would have felt anything other than this would be the sternest test possible for County to face, and that`s precisely how it turned out   as the Stags were just too resourceful for the blues, in a game littered with fouls ,injuries and stoppages that saw top quality football thin on the ground at times. Injuries to Pye early on that forced him to be substituted and Knoyle, who was stretchered off early in the second half hit County hard and will do so again as both add to the already lengthy list of injured players not available to us. It was not that County did not try, they certainly did but they found N...

        County extended their lead at the top of League 2 from 4 to 5 points last night via a share of the points with Bradford City after a blood and thunder fixture that finished 0-0 at Valley Parade . The game was   played out to the malevolent accompaniment of constant wind and rain, and in many ways the elements dictated matters. County will probably be well pleased with the point against an irritatingly combative Bantams side that were fortunate to have Lewis Smith   refereeing proceedings- he let a lot go! Notwithstanding Bradford`s interest in making   a game of it ,at half time I thought we would take the game in the second half with a modest amount of good fortune. We had not achieved too much in terms of goal chances, although Tanto did have one disallowed for `offside` before the break, but Powell had covered every inch of Valley Parade passing City off the park, so I was heartened that we were going to see a continuation of that we...