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Notts County 2 Stockport County 5 ( Football League 2) Tuesday 16 April 2024

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               Champions Again…ole..ole….and we are ..Dave Challinors magnificent Stockport County team, cruelly shorn of their 20 goal striker Tanto Olaofe ,strode majestically to the League 2 title with a rip snortingly superb 5-2 victory away to Notts County at their Meadow Lane home tonight. County played like true champions throughout   taking control of the game early on , a truly excellent hat-trick by the amazing Paddy Madden putting the game beyond Stuart Maynard`s side well before half time. If tension abounded at the start, by the re-start County supporters were already in celebration mood especially when Sarcevic added a fourth goal 5 minutes into the second 45. The standard of play…the football from the blues had been exceptional and the work rate too so it was perhaps to be expected that they would relax a touch at that point, but that may be me undervaluing County`s work, when I maybe should give some credit to the Magpies who in a 4-minute spell nicked 2 goals b

Stockport County 2 Morecambe 0 ( Football League 2 ) Saturday 13 April 2024

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        A superbly clinical performance by Stockport County saw them clinch promotion to League 1 with a 2-0 win against Morecambe in front of more than 10000 today at Edgeley Park. County showed just how to cope with the nerves and anxieties engendered by the occasion with a thoroughly ruthless showing that saw the door slammed tight shut on Ged Brannon`s side by a strike from Tanto on 8 minutes followed by Horsfall`s header in first half added time. Tanto had to be substituted just 20 minutes in, but if this disadvantaged the blues, the visitors just could not find a way of capitalising on the situation as County imposed an iron grip on proceedings that enabled Ben Hinchliffe to claim another clean sheet not having a single shot to stop all game! Another example of superb game management had seen County home with their 4-point lead atop L2 still intact . A win at Meadow Lane on Tuesday sorts the title for County and they did enough today to suggest that is very much on the