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David Longson's avatar

A very touching piece of writing, which reminded me of being by my dad‘s bedside in a similar way. Dad was a lifelong County fan and could never grasp why their results weren’t in his paper in the usual place after they dropped out of the league. We still always had the ‘ how are County getting on’ conversation, though. Sadly he died before promotion back into division two. He has a memorial brick at the back of the Cheadle End stand.

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Steven Bajic's avatar

Although dad was no football fan he too passed in similar circumstances. Very sad and extremely hard on the rest of the family. I too remember attending Friday night matches at EP and Saturday was always United. I have a season ticket now in The Cheadle End.

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Bert Cert's avatar

My own dad was also a United fan but he died suddenly after a match in 2004 so in a way compared to this lad I suppose I was lucky . He was ok my dad always took me to County on Friday nights in the Johnny Price days. I suppose that is why I enjoy matches at Stockport these days but no way would I attend matches in United shirt with or without bloody Rashford on the back!

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