All Things Stockport County

Over the years Help the Hatters have been proud to support the Club and particularly its Manager James Gannon, who was very much involved when we first set forth on the unending journey with a mammoth refurbishment of Manor Farm training facility in Timperley. We are peopled and driven by volunteers without whom nothing would be possible , and these men and women have been truly inspirational in the last few months, when despite still being in the midst of keeping Edgeley Park ship shape, some of our number took considerable time out to head off to Cheadle & Gatley JFC on Outwood Road, Heald Green   to fulfil a project to turn   a somewhat dilapidated facility building into one fit for purpose. You can perhaps get some appreciation of how hard a task this was from the above photos (thanks to Edd & Simon for these) , but many hours were spent painting, plastering and much/much more, and the project was com...

County came away with nothing from Damson Park last night where Tim Flower`s Solihull Moors ran out 2-0 winners. If it ended up being a bleak night for JG`s men, it might easily have finished rather  differently with a kinder shake of Lady Luck`s condiment dispenser. Yes, the white shirted blues arguably shaded the first half, in which Moors ,whilst maybe enjoying more of the ball at times than County, looked no sharper or likely to end what at that point was stalemate. That situation appertained into added time( all 60 seconds of it)whereupon County became the victims of   the selective application of the rule book as a blatantly foul Moors throw was allowed to stand resulting in Walker being sent off ,the ball having struck his arm on the line from the resultant shot. It may have been a penalty …..it almost certainly wasn`t deliberate…..and the throw that set it all up was gruesomely outside the laws of the game. I thought I had seen the last of pl...