QuiteSorry, cant forgive their scrote club and fans for how they treated us when we were shit....announced one of our results at the ground referring to us as Donkeys.
I was in corporate for the City 3-1 defeat and could see Megson (out of view of the City fans} goading on the County fans when they were singing about how shit we are during that defeat.
Fuck em.
Stockport County back in League One after a comfortable 2-0 win today. First time they've been in the third tier since 2009. 15 years ago. Promoted alongside Wrexham. Two clubs who spent years in the non-leagues that have come back to life after being given proper money and proper resources. Wish them both well, especially Stockport. Grew up in the shadow of Edgeley Park, been to dozens of games down the years, a huge crowd of 10,000 today - even in the National League North they were getting 5,000 and 6,000, way more than anyone else down there.
Edgeley Park could be welcoming the likes of Birmingham, Sheffield Wednesday, and QPR next season. Edgeley has seriously suffered without County getting big away games in all those years they've spent in the doldrums, but Stockport's on the rise again and the town is properly buzzing. The worldwide success of Blossoms, the association with our very own 'Stockport Iniesta', County on the up, more and more people coming to the town to live and work, huge redevelopments in the pipeline. Has never felt better to be a part of this town.
Born here in 1994. Lived here til 2012. Being a kid in Stockport, you had two choices for entertainment: go and sit on Stockport Gardens or go round your mate's house. There was fuck all else. Moved back in 2018. And now look at the place. Edgeley will be booming tonight and there's gonna be a lot of sore heads in the SK3 postcode come Sunday morning. This is only the beginning as well. For the first time in my 30 years on this planet Stockport's an exciting place to be and long may its good fortunes continue to be tied to County's.
Yes, my take on this whole business is as much to do with the town, and how County's going up will be good for it, as with the club itself. I've got a sort of sneaking affection for Stockport from all those years back. It was a gritty, grotty town, yet it had somehow survived the industrial revolution (and its decline), and was sort of making a desperate attempt to be part of the ‘swinging sixties’!
There was a shop called Seven Miles Out which I used to frequent as the apprentice hippy that I was. Joss sticks! Patchouli! Girls in long flowing dresses with headbands!! Woodstock comes to the grim industrial north!!! As a lad who'd been serving a prison sentence for ten years (boarding school), this was magic.
As I've said, I saw one or two gigs at the College of Technology. I think I saw a group called the Purple Gang there, singing “Granny Takes a Trip”. I've got a hazy memory of it, anyway. Also saw a group called Stack Waddy, whose one foray into recording was the memorably named LP, Bugger Off!
And County was part of all that. It was handy to have a local club, if only to remind me of what astounding football I was seeing at Maine Rd.
Kev was recently asked to comment on his team mates' haircuts (he can talk!). Asked about Phil, he said, with an ironic smile, “Well, it's simply a Stockport haircut. If you go to Stockport, that's the haircut you see.”
Made me laugh.
Joe Cocker at the Tabernacle if I remember correctlyPurple Gang are still going, sort of anyway.
They have done well this season and have been working their way through the leagues. Happy for them.
Can't believe the fans were nasty and took the piss out of us though. That's just not the done thing:-)
Purple Gang are still going, sort of anyway.
Yeah, just incomprehensible, eh?
I mean, we wouldn't think of doing that.
Jeez, they've got to be eighty and pushing Zimmer frames if they're a day. Still doing the drugs, though, I hope.
Glad to see County do well, my best man is a big county fan. He's always respected City and therefore I have always respected county. Also helps that we both fucking hate United!
I know imagine being mean to away fans. We city fans would never stoop so low.
You're not the best side but you seem nice chaps is often heard from the south stand.
Great post mate, how us blues can hold a grudge because they beat us way back then is something I’ll never know even if they did gloat a bit.When I was growing up in Manchester (ok, greater Manchester) Stockport was my closest fair-sized town. Went into the Merseyway shopping centre fairly regularly with my mother, and used to go and buy my rock and folk LPs at a place that was down the hill, I think on Great Underbank, although I wouldn't swear to it (looong time ago). Even saw Keef Hartley at the Stockport College of Technology, as it then was. Revised for my A levels in Stockport Central Library that spring. Happy times.
I've often thought that if I'd stayed in Manchester, I would probably have supported County as a lower league club as well as City, and indeed went to Edgley Park a few times because it was on Friday nights, and I simply couldn't get enough live football in those days. By God but it was a pokey little ground then. The Cheadle End sometimes used to give it the big one about both City and United from time to time. Touching, really.
There's a logical catchment area to support County in League One, easily, and maybe in the Championship. North Manchester was well served in those days — Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, sad that so many of them have fallen on hard times — and there was something of an imbalance.
Glad to see them doing well, frankly. As for them beating us and gloating about it donkeys years ago, I just can't be bothered to hate them for it now. I haven't got the negative energy. They had their moment in the sun. We are the Champions League holders, three successive Premier League holders and (I am afraid) now a global franchise. Can I really be bothered to care about the fact that a team that's just got back into the league once beat us, during the nanosecond in which our paths crossed? Really not.
Hope they go up.
Correct! And he’ll be selling if he gets them promoted again.Mark, the owner is a huge City fan. He was one of the unfortunates that had to walk down the motorway in Istanbul.
Joe played at his home town of Poynton’s art festival last year.Joe Beard went to school with my Dad, used to drink in my local, I went to school with my daughter. He’s early 70’s.
They still play the odd gig, but he moved to the midlands somewhere to be nearer to his daughter and grand kids.