Stronge Reports

  Although County fans may have become accustomed to busy transfer windows, the current one that precedes County’s return to the Football League after a 14-year absence has been hectic even by recent standards.    This guide will help you keep tabs on County’s new men, and what you can expect from them when they get their chance in the upcoming season.  Kyle Wootton  The 6’1” striker was announced as County’s first step into this summer’s transfer window on 9th June. Having managed to score 19 league goals last season in the National League for a Notts County side that never truly troubled the league's top sides, Simon Wilson and his recruitment team will be delighted at securing Wootton’s services on a free transfer.   The Kidderminster-born man cuts a foreboding figure in attack. Whilst comfortable troubling defenders from corners and set-pieces, he should not be mislabeled as an instrument of brute force, capable of scoring a wide array of goals and...

  Billed by some fans as the best signing of the Mark Stott era, Stockport County have agreed terms with Stockport Council for a 250-year lease of Edgeley Park, allowing them further freedoms to renovate and expand the stadium.  From what was a hideous start to the season under Simon Rusk, under the new leadership of Dave Challinor has turned into the most promising position Stockport County have held over the past few years.  Despite some turbulent times on the pitch since Mark Stott took over the club, things off the pitch have been consistently improving, only solidified by this announcement.  As fans in the Cheadle End will be well-acquainted with, huge investment has gone into taking the concourse from the tired shell that it was, into a pre-match experience that could rival that of many Premier League grounds.  The Cheadle End improvements only form a percentage of the £3 million invested into the infrastructure of the club since the arrival of Stott....

Dame Cressida Dick, the supremely well-connected incumbent Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Already au fait with the presence of controversy in her professional career, she finds herself at the centre of yet another brewing nationwide scandal for the second time in a matter of months.  Before becoming embroiled in the 'Partygate' scandal that she currently finds herself tangled up in, there was already a strong contingent of the public, not only from London but also much further afield, that felt it was time she tendered her resignation from the top job within the Metropolitan Police.  Such ill-feeling presented itself against her following the Met Police's handling of the vigil for Sarah Everard, the 33-year-old woman subjected to a grotesque kidnap, sexual attack and subsequent murder by then-serving 48-year-old Met Police officer Wayne Couzens. Couzens was a firearms officer, working for a Met Police unit based in Westminister that is given responsibility for protectin...