All Things Stockport County

      County flattered to deceive against Crawley Town at the Broadfield Stadium tonight allowing their opponents to nick a late goal and a share of the points that had looked nobbut a pipe dream up until then for the Sussex outfit. This was extremely disappointing as the blues had nullified everything Crawley had to offer and shown plenty themselves in the first half, if with a familiar absence of razor-sharp finishing where it mattered. Then, having established the required bridgehead at 0-0 at half time, County emerged looking likely to turn their opponents over in the second 45, emphasised precisely when Kane`s inch perfect corner ( won by Richards) saw Sarsevic rise beyond the far post to head home through a crowd of players to put the blues 1-0 up. Sadly Richards had to be substituted at that point, having taken a knock earlier- he was replaced by Madden so that was like for like but that could not be said for at least one of the later subbings that had the ...

      Yesterday was a day when County`s promotion push might have been severely challenged. Not by the quality of their opponents or their position and current form in the league but by the bald fact that Karl Robinson`s Salford City side were 2-0 up at half time and County were struggling for a coherent response at the Peninsular Stadium last night. Salford looked a fairly basic outfit wedded to lifting the ball long and high towards the County box and not much else. There was a solid reasoning behind this route one approach - that was where 23 goal Matt Smith lurked. County should have coped, didn’t, floundering instead as a series of free headers boosted the Ammies confidence. The   home sides propensity for time wasting was   game long but ridiculously started   early doors along with some iffy `man to man ‘marking ( Bristow forced off with a shoulder injury after half an hour just one example). Sadly, Mr Yates the Referee proved incapable of ...