All Things Stockport County

  Despite looking the better team for long periods of the game , County had to settle for a 2-2 draw in the first leg of their play-off tie with Leyton Orient at Brisbane Road today. County were on top from the start and it was a massive surprise when they went behind after half an hour to the clearest offside goal I have seen …ever….. as , in splendid isolation some 3 or 4 yards clear of any defender ,Charlie Kelman was allowed to celebrate scoring a goal that never was! It took County 30 more minutes to set things back on the right course via a penalty converted by Ollie Norwood after handball on the line had deprived Horsfall of scoring the equalising goal. Within 5 more minutes County were ahead, and Orient looked to be about to be swept away by   wave   after wave of County attacks mostly engineered by Jaydon Fevrier down the right for the blues.- his trickery winning a free kick that Norwood lifted onto Fraser Horsfall`s head . County had the lead and look...

      County ended the pre play-off portion of their season on a considerable high with a morale boosting 3-1 win away to Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park today. It was another game of 2 halves – the first seeing County struggle to put together anything to see off a Wycombe side that looked a pale shadow of the side that seemed to be the best L1 side by a distance when beating us at Edgeley Park earlier this season. But pale shadow or not ,Mike Dodds side , waited their moment which came 31 minutes in when Garath McCleary took advantage of some poor County defending to give his side the lead. County continued to struggle into the second half –Corey Addai emerging as    a real hero for the blues- making a terrific save to deny Xavier Simons on 57 minutes before turning the match on its head with another stunning save to keep Luke Leahy`s penalty out on the hour! It took County 10 minutes to capitalise on that piece of goalkeeping brilliance thanks to Ben...