The Stockport County Herald
Squad12 Oct 2026
Joseph Olowu signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joseph Olowu commits to Stockport County for another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jay Mingi has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Stockport County
Joseph Olowu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Stockport County
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lewis Bate was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Joseph Olowu
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joseph Olowu, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
A reunion for Kyle Wootton
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Lincoln City in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
When it matters, Benoný Breki Andrésson plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes Ben Osborn a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Stockport County. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Lewis Bate question follows Stockport County around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Lewis Bate’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Stockport County put Jid Okeke up for sale
- The dugout Jid Okeke knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Lincoln City