I said, ‘We’ll see when they get in the Football League’.”Įighteen months later, Powell is watching on television as Stockport lose a penalty shootout against Carlisle in the League Two play-off final. Stockport were in the Conference (the National League). “My friend knew the owner (Mark Stott) and said to me, ‘I can get you a conversation with the club, what do you think?’ My first thought, without being rude, was, ‘Hell, no.’ I’d just been player of the season in a Championship team. The background, he explains, is that one of his friends invited him to a Stockport game at Edgeley Park in December 2021. “Just across the fields,” says Powell, with his knowledge of the local geography.Īnd it is some story how Powell has chosen Stockport, one of League Two’s upwardly mobile clubs, when he could have made far more money elsewhere and had numerous offers from teams higher up the football ladder. Manchester City’s old training headquarters is next door. We are sitting in an upstairs room at Stockport County’s training ground on a stretch of road, just off the M60 motorway, that will be familiar to many football people in this part of the country. Puma set to be Premier League ball supplier from 2025
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