County v Wrexham
From the fifth tier to the third, our recent rivalry continues…
Saturday 16 November 2024
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Dear County fans, Stopfordians, Wrexham supporters, and anyone else from The Football Family joining us today, a very warm welcome to your Saturday edition of The Scarf My Father Wore.
Ian Brown, Nick Lee and Jonathan Baker join us today, ahead of our latest showdown with our friends from North Wales.
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Finally, I’m currently walking every street in Stockport to raise money for mental health charity Mentell. If you’d like to make a donation to help me reach my target, please click here.
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Des Junior
Des Junior loves writing about County. But he can never be arsed doing match previews. They’re a bit dull, aren’t they? Will Collar’s out for a month with diarrhoea… blah blah blah…tomorrow’s referee has handed out more cards than Moonpig…blah blah blah…County haven’t won at Birmingham for a thousand years.
Fortunately, he has a number of fellow County content creators to call upon. Here’s their thoughts, general chit-chat and score predictions, as Wrexham visit Edgeley Park in the third tier for the first time since 2004-05.
Ian Brown, All Things Stockport County
County 3 Wrexham 0
Pye in for Touray, who’s on international duty. Apart from that, it’s got to be the same team from the Bolton win hasn’t it?
Same again would seem to be what’s called for. However, I suspect Dave Challinor will want to start Odin Bailey, in which case Callum Connolly might be the one to lose out. In that case we’d go with four at the back with Macauley Southam-Hales and Ryan Rydel slotting in at full-back.
Alternatively, if my ‘Connolly under threat’ hunch has legs I would not be averse to instead swapping him for Sam Hughes and sticking with the back three, which would push Ryan and the Welsh Genius a little further up the park with slightly less defensive duties to think about.
But whatever 11 are sent out, I expect us to beat Wrexham today.
Ian follows County home and away, producing detailed match reports every week, along with lots of other great content. Head over to hedgegrower.blogspot.com.
Nick Lee, SK3 TV
County 3 Wrexham 1
Best and worst memories from previous clashes with Wrexham?
Best: I wasn't there because I was dying of the lurgy and it remains my greatest regret in 30 years of following County, but it has to be the 5-0 win last year. Any other answer is pretty much wrong innit?
Worst: That trip there in an FA Trophy replay in 2015 was pretty bleak. 2-1 down at half-time and their keeper goes off injured to be replaced by an outfield player. We then fail to do so much as muster a shot in the second half and go on to lose 6-1. Genuinely torrid.
Nick’s one of the co-hosts of SK3 TV, a new podcast for the 2024-25 season, with live episodes every Monday at 8pm. Click here for links.
Jonathan Baker, The County Away Day Show
County 2 Wrexham 1
As a County fan, which team do you hate the most?
A great question – and of course we know what the most topical answer would be! I actually find myself struggling to muster particularly high levels of strictly County-based enmity for our opposition this afternoon, seeing them as another proper old-fashioned club whose loyal fanbase have endured plenty through the years, and who are as deserving as any of the unsolicited riches latterly propelling them towards the game’s upper echelons.
Having said that, I still absolutely can’t stand them, and this is for reasons nothing to do with County at all, but on account of them having shattered my 10-year-old heart by knocking brave Northern League fighters Blyth Spartans out of the FA Cup in a fifth round replay staged at St James’ Park back in 1977-78.
I was at the game with my many Northumbrian cousins, all of us bedecked in green-and-white scarves, and with the winners due to face the mighty Arsenal in the quarter finals, the entire North East of England had been roused to fever pitch; the attendance was officially given as a capacity 42,000, but it’s commonly accepted there were a good extra 10,000 packed inside. When the final whistle blew on a bitterly close 2-1 defeat for the brave team of pitmen, I was reduced to tears – the first time a football result had caused such emotion, and absolutely not the last.
This afternoon, I’m braced for 90 minutes of the high and fragile emotions that this fixture customarily brings in its wake. The two sides are as ever very closely matched, but I sense an early goal for the Hatters, and the sold-out crowd to roar us over the line. I’ll go for a direct reversal of that faraway cup tie: a 2-1 home win.
Jonathan, aka Geordie Hatter, hosts The County Away Day Show on selected Saturday mornings during the season, when the Hatters are on the road. All episodes can be found at the-geordie-hatter.mixlr.com.
Today’s other predictions
County Supporters Co-operative: County 2 Wrexham 2
Hatters Matters: County 3 Wrexham 1
The Scarf Bergara Wore: County 2 Wrexham 1
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Photo of the day
Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Never mind Jake Paul v Mike Tyson, this weekend’s biggest ding-dong is down at Edgeley Park.
Pop into Rough Hands Tap for a pint this weekend
Any Wrexham fans (or indeed any of our other readers from North Wales) joining us today? Enjoy a pint or two at Rough Hands Tap this weekend, Wrexham’s newest craft beer bar.
Located at Chapter Court on Queens Street, everyone’s welcome for good chat and cracking craft beer or bangin' coffee.
Visit roughhands.co.uk for further details.
Today in SK
🎬 Cinema
Three films at The Savoy Cinema (SK4) today. Buffalo Kids (PG) at 12.30pm, Gladiator II (15) at 2.30pm and 8pm, and Juror #2 (12A) at 5.30pm. Click here for tickets.
💿 DJ
DJ Brinner at The Dog & Partridge (SK2). 8pm.
🍺 Food and drink
Pop in for a pint at Heaton Hops (SK4), CAMRA Pub of the Year for Stockport and South Manchester.
All pints £2.50 at The Cross Keys (SK8) from 6pm till 9pm.
If you’re simply in the mood for a couple of pints today, pop along to one of our featured venues such as AMP (SK1), The Crown (SK2), The Alexandra (SK3), The Steelworks (SK6) or The Three Tunnes (SK7).
🎵 Karaoke
The Nelson Tavern (SK1) with Lee. From 8pm.
🎙 Live music
The Amanda Jane Heywood Band at The Crown Inn (SK6). 9pm.
Random photos of County players at other clubs
#49 – Adriano Moke, Wrexham
A blast from our non-league past, this one. Portugal-born Adriano Moke made 29 appearances for County during our first season in the Conference North. Went to Macc after that, and then had a season at Wrexham.
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