Games: 19 Won: 6 Drew: 6 Lost:  7 Average Attendance: 7,489 Day Date Competition Tier / Round Opponents Res F A Crowd Away Day Sat 12/02/94 Endsleigh League Division 2 Tier 3 Port Vale D 1 1 10,628 273 Tues 08/03/94 Endsleigh League Division 2 Tier 3 Wrexham W 1 0 4,756 274 Sat 12/03/94(Highlights) […]

Games: 23 Won: 10 Drew: 2 Lost:  11 Average Attendance: 8,457 Day Date Competition Tier / Round Opponents Res F A Crowd Away Day Sat 02/01/93(Highlights) FA Cup Round 3 Derby County L 1 2 17,960 250 Sat 30/01/93 Barclays League Division 2 Tier 3 Burnley D 1 1 11,228 251 Tues 02/02/93(Highlights) Autoglass Trophy […]

Games: 27 Won: 13 Drew: 4 Lost:  10 Average Attendance: 8,722 Day Date Competition Tier / Round Opponents Res F A Crowd Away Day Sat 11/01/92(Highlights) Barclays League Division 3 Tier 3 Hull City W 2 0 3,982 223 Sat 15/02/92 Barclays League Division 3 Tier 3 Peterborough United L 2 3 5,301 224 Tues […]

Games: 22 Won: 7 Drew: 2 Lost:  13 Average Attendance: 5,670 * Victoria Ground – Stoke City Day Date Competition Tier / Round Opponents Res F A Crowd Away Day Sat 12/01/91 Barclays League Division 4 Tier 4 Walsall W 2 0 4,364 201 Tues 22/01/91(Highlights) Leyland Daf Cup Northern Round 2 Burnley L 2 […]

Games: 19 Won: 6 Drew: 5 Lost:   8 Average Attendance: 3,516 Day Date Competition Tier / Round Opponents Res F A Crowd Away Day Tue 09/01/90 Leyland Daf Cup Northern Round 1 Carlisle United W 2 1 2,814 182 Tues 30/01/90 Leyland Daf Cup Northern Quarter-final Halifax Town L 1 3 1,779 183 Sat […]

THEY STARTED OVER 200 GAMES (5) It’s more than fair to say that the five names below are written in County folklore, and four of them were fixtures in the Annus Mirabilis, 1996/97. We played 67 games in total that season. I was fortunate enough to miss only three, (the away games at Wycombe; Brentford […]

First County Visit: Saturday 22nd September 1990 Competition: Barclays League Division 4 – (Tier 4) Result: Cardiff City 3 – 3 Stockport County Attendance: 3,374 Away Trip: 49 Away Day: 194 County Line-up 1 Paul Cooper; 2 Malcolm Brown; 3 Tony Barras; 4 David Frain; 5 Andy Thorpe; 6 Alan Finley (12 Keith Alexander); 7 […]

First County Visit: Saturday 24th February 1990 Competition: Barclays League Division 4 – (Tier 4) Result: Scunthorpe United 5 – 0 Stockport County Attendance: 3,280 Away Trip: 48 Away Day: 186 County Line-up 1 David Redfern; 2 Malcolm Brown; 3 David Logan; 4 Steve Bullock; 5 Andy Thorpe; 6 Paul Jones; 7 Chris Beaumont; 8 […]

First County Visit: Tuesday 9th January 1990 Competition: Leyland DAF Cup – (Northern Round 1) Result: Carlisle United 1 – 2 Stockport County (aet) Attendance: 2,814 Away Trip: 47 Away Day: 182 County Line-up 1 David Redfern; 2 Steve Bullock; 3 David Logan; 4 David Frain; 5 Bill Williams; 6 Paul Jones; 7 Chris Beaumont […]

The 1990’s was a decade of almost unparalleled success for County. We came into it 3rd in Division 4, (Tier 4). The work that Bergara had started was showing the first green shoots. It grew from there. A promotion in 1991; 4 Wembley appearances; promotion in 1997, (allied to a League Cup semi final appearance), […]

My first foray into writing for a nationally published tome had been for the 1996/97 season in Survival of the Fattest 3. (Check it out by clicking the link). Two years later Dave Espley asked me to do it for the 1998/99 season. Once gain the remit was 2,000 words, but the subject matter was […]

Fanzines were the football rage during the 1990’s. Pre-internet days; and definitely no message boards, the sole way for the ordinary bloke on the terrace to outline opinions or quite possibly to vent rage was through the pages of a fanzine. The primary fanzine at County was “The Tea Party”. Dave Espley, author of the […]

Played Won Drawn Lost Ave Att: 25 8 9 8 2,300 Programme style in 1982/83. It was a very handy pocket size version. The picture, (from the game against Mansfield in April 1983 when we drew 1-1 thanks to Mike Power strike) features Tommy Sword, (quite possibly in the previous weeks home game against Chester). […]

First County Visit: Saturday 3rd December 1988 Competition: Barclays League Division 4 – (Tier 4) Result: Rotherham United 2 – 1 Stockport County Attendance: 4,005 Away Trip: 46 Away Day: 165 County Line-up 1 Andy Gorton; 2 Brian Butler; 3 Nigel Hart; 4 Steve Bullock; 5 Andy Thorpe; 6 Bill Williams; 7 Rodger Wylde; 8 […]

My average Hatters games a season went up from 41 in the 80’s to 51 in this decade. It was a reflection of the way in which the Club had moved into a more successful era. The appointment of Danny Bergara in the latter years of the 1980’s had proved the catalyst for the massive […]

Away Games: 237 Record: Won 83 Drew 51 Lost 103 Average Attendance: 8,341 New Grounds: 48 Click on the year for a full list of away games I attended. Under each year is a link to the new grounds I visited then. Additionally in the list of games where I have been able to source […]

Games Sub Goals Jim Gannon 388 36 57 Mike Flynn 326 1 13 Sean Connelly 290 9 6 Chris Beaumont 263 20 43 Lee Todd 262 12 4 Neil Edwards 196 1 0 David Frain 190 9 12 Alun Armstrong 180 6 58 Kevin Francis 171 4 102 Brett Angell 163 9 69 Peter Ward […]