Jack Diamond

Left Midfielder - Stockport County
27 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jack Diamond

7 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Match

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 ratings

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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 terraces

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

Back issues
6 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Harley Windsor damages knee ligaments — 36 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 36 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

4 matches without a win for Stockport County

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Stockport County are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jack Diamond

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Stockport County training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lewis Bate is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Stockport County and Kyle Wootton are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Corey Addai dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

4 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Malik Mothersille scores twice — 8.40

Two goals and a mark of 8.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Kyle Wootton in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stockport County this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Stockport County and Bolton Wanderers in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match

A bad afternoon for Stockport County against Bolton Wanderers

2‑4 to Bolton Wanderers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Stockport County training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lewis Bate is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces

Stockport County supporters have found a favourite in Malik Mothersille

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Malik Mothersille has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

1 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ben Hinchliffe has been here 9 seasons

584 appearances across 9 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Oliver Norwood signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oliver Norwood and Stockport County agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Stockport County

Oliver Norwood was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Stockport County training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lewis Bate is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Stockport County and Kyle Wootton are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

49 months and counting on Jack Diamond

Still no offer on the table, and Jack Diamond’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief