Who would you rather come up? Stockport County v Leyton Orient or Charlton Athletic v Wycombe Wonders Are the semi-finals.
Not Charlton. Boring and seen it all before with them. Stockport have done amazingly well to be this close, them or Orient is my pick.
It’s a long, long time (early 80s) since we played Orient, so I would welcome the chance to go back there.
I love the POs, at every level. So much at stake. Real blood and thunder and pashun from the fan bases. I'd watch every game live on TV if I could.
Stockport - got family not far away and there's some good pre-match pubs there (unless things have changed since the 1990s).
Orient or Wycombe as they will have the lowest spending budget in the Championship. Which means we won't be bottom of the pile in that regard. Stockport are being financed heavily as with Wrexham with plans to modernize Edgeley Park with a new large home stand as well.
A really bad decision for Orient’s opener - their striker was about 5 miles offside. The standard of officiating in the country really makes me despair…
Assistant thought the ball hadn’t been touched on its way through ? And Orient could have had a pen later then got one which was less obvious .
It was a shocking, potentially season defining decision. Referees are not and never have been held accountable.
Aren't Wycombe billionaire backed these days? Surely they will make more of a go at it than last time they were in championship.
I'm not so sure the linesman didn't just make a really really bad decision and thought the guy was onside anyway. Otherwise, surely you raise the flag and then when ref comes over you say "bloke was miles off if number 9 flicked it on, but I couldn't determine it from here - what did you see?"
They weren’t bad last time tbf, they were more or less down by the final day but IIRC they won on the final day to end up only being relegated on goal difference, Ainsworth raised a chuckle when they went 1-0 up and he shouted ‘just ten more lads!’
That's what makes football a bit depressing these days, it seems really rare you get a fairy tale of a club that goes up the leagues purely through excellent management, scouting, recruitment and judicious spending without splashing the cash. Stockport's rise from the depths of regional part-time football and bottom half in Conference North with the prospect of a fourth promotion in seven seasons looks really impressive and a great story of a club who've been to hell and back, but if a lot of money has been behind it, it makes them little better than the likes of Fleetwood and Salford, clubs Stockport fans would've looked disapprovingly on even when they were seemingly marooned forever in non-league.
