HALIFAX TOWN TO HYDE FC Click on a Club name to see the record of the games (including result and attendance and where available a link to video highlights). Details of a featured game, including the County line-up and scorers plus a brief reflection on the game. On the right links to my memories of […]

THE TALE OF HOW A CLUB ROCK BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF THE FOOTBALL WORLD … … AND HOW THE CLUB IS BASED IN ITS FANS In the middle of January 2021 my post on “The Changing Face of Edgeley Park Over the Years” brought a fair few responses. The way in […]

BRISTOL ROVERS V STOCKPORT COUNTY DES HINKS CONTINUES THE STORY OF THE FA CUP RUN ROUND 3 FEATURED WHAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE “GREATEST EVER MATCH AT EDGELEY PARK” With victory over Wigan Athletic in the 1st Round and Grimsby Town, (the flying high in Division 3) in the 2nd Round the draw for […]

STOCKPORT COUNTY V GRIMSBY TOWN DES HINKS CONTINUES THE STORY OF THE FA CUP RUN ROUND 2 WAS A TALE OF TRAGEDY …AND …TRIUMPH The draw for Round 2 pitched County against Grimsby Town with the tie scheduled for Edgeley Park. Wigan had been beaten in Round 1 three weeks earlier, but the intervening period […]

STOCKPORT COUNTY V WIGAN ATHLETIC DES HINKS STARTS THE STORY OF THE CUP RUN Little did the punters making their way down Hardcastle Road on Saturday 14th November 1964 know that they were to witness the start of a Cup run which would involve some of the epic County games, recalled more that 55 years […]

LIVERPOOL v STOCKPORT COUNTY – 1965 DES HINKS RECALLS AN UNFORGETTABLE COUNTY MOMENT A team rock bottom of the Football League, (with 12 points from 28 games), visited Anfield to face Liverpool, the reigning Champions of the Football League. At such a tender age a trip to Merseyside was never on the cards for me, […]