The Stockport County Herald
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Harley Windsor
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stockport County lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Oliver Whatmuff is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Lewis Bate falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Tanto Olaofe
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
Stockport County find a way past Barnsley
Barnsley made Stockport County work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Malik Mothersille in the eights
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Jack Diamond in the eights
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Stockport County pick somebody else ahead of Corey Addai
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The spotlight tightens on Oliver Norwood
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
In brief
- Market Kaio Eduardo arrives on loan
- The terraces The stand has a song for Malik Mothersille