![]() ![]() Stockport’s upward trajectory - they are aiming for a third promotion in six seasons - is one of football’s feel-good stories, given it is only a few years since they were sleepwalking towards potential oblivion.īut it feels like even more of an achievement bearing in mind the challenges of living in the shadow of the two giants just up the road. They have more points than any club in England’s top four divisions (41) and have also outscored everybody (39). Look closely and you can see “the Hill of Hell”, the steep, grassy mound put in by Mancini, where his players would be forced to complete punishing military-style runs.Īnd now, a decade on, the players of Stockport, three divisions below the Premier League, are doing wonderful things on a smaller piece of the Carrington district of Manchester, where a special story is being shaped at their own training headquarters.ĭave Challinor’s team have just won their 12th league game in a row, equalling a League Two record. Over the next field, past the riding school and the electricity pylons, Manchester United’s training ground is tucked behind the row of trees their then manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, had planted to keep out snoopers. ![]() For the players of Stockport County, there is nothing new about living among exalted company. ![]()
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