Moorlands Sport Extra

Moorlands Sports Extra is back for another season, as we went on the road to the Fitzjohn Stadium as Kidsgrove Athletic hosted the Tom Pope retirement game.The Sneyd Green sniper brought the curtain down on an incredible career. He became the post war record goalscorer for Port Vale with 115 goals for the Burslem club, helping them win promotion out of League Two in 2013 and who can forget the goal that saw him break the post war record- an equaliser at Manchester City in the FA Cup back in January 2020.Pope also played for the likes of Crewe Alexandra, Rotherham United and Bury in the EFL before returning to non-league football with Congleton Town, Witton Albion, Hanley Town and, of course, Kidsgrove Athletic.To honour his career, a Port Vale Xl took on an all-star’s team that included several of Pope’s old teammates at different clubs, including Adam Le Fondre, Pete Williams, Darren Chadwick and Dave Parton. It was the all-stars who won 5-4 despite one last goal in Port Vale colours for Pope.Moorlands Sport Extra were able to catch up with Pope and many of his old teammates, including Richard Duffy, Carl Dickinson, Luke Joyce, Pete Williams, Louis Dodds to get their memories of the one and only Tom Pope.

This week’s Moorlands Sport Extra is now out. Due to time constraints, this week’s podcast should have gone out last week, but couldn’t. However, it’s here now. In this episode, we hear from Leek Town chairman Jon Eeles as he quickly spoke to Dave Stringer following the Blues end of season victory at Workington. Meanwhile Richard Scott speaks with Charles Porter of Congleton Town after their safety was secured in the Northern Premier League West on the final day of the season. Finally, we hear from Newcastle Town chair Gav Appleby who talks us through Newcastle’s season and explains what might be happening with the Northern Premier League playoffs.As always, you can listen to the podcast below or on your chosen podcast provider.

This week’s Moorlands Sport Extra is out. We hear from our cricket correspondent James Marsh as he previews the start of the North Staffs and South Cheshire Cricket League with Rich Cooper. Dave Stringer speaks to Leek Cricket Club captain Alex Mellor as they start their season at Checkley. Meanwhile, the football season comes to an end this weekend for our non-league sides, and we hear from Matt Rhead of Kidsgrove Athletic following their 2-1 defeat at home to Shifnal Town. As always, you can listen to the podcast below or via your chosen podcast provider.

This week’s Moorlands Sport Extra is out. We celebrate Hanley Town lifting the Midlands League title by speaking to manager Scott Dundas following their 4-0 win over Whitchurch Alport in their final league game of the season. As well as this, we hear from Congleton Town manager Richard Duffy and midfielder Cole Ojunju after the game at Witton Albion last weekend.You can listen to the podcast below or on your chosen podcast provider.

This week’s edition of Moorlands Sport Extra is now out. We hear from Kidsgrove Athletic manager Matt Rhead following their 3-1 win over Avro on Tuesday night. As well as hearing from Grove captain Jack Bromfield following his 200th appearance for the club.Meanwhile, we hear from Port Vale manager Jon Brady and defender Connor Hall ahead of their trip to Wycombe Wanderers this weekend. Finally, we explain what Non-League Day is all about.As always, you can listen to the podcast below or on your chosen podcast provider. 

This week’s Moorlands Sport Extra is now out. On the podcast, we catch up with Natty Stewart and Matt Rhead following Kidsgrove Athletic’s 2-0 win over Clitheroe in midweek. We are also with Port Vale ahead of their home tie with Bolton Wanderers. We hear from Jon Brady and Ben Garrity. As always, you can find the podcast below or on your chosen podcast provider.

This week’s edition of Moorlands Sport Extra is now available for you to listen to. On the podcast, we relive the excellent FA Cup victory over Sunderland for Port Vale, and we hear from Mike Stubbs on his thoughts on the Vale drawing Chelsea. Meanwhile, Derek Turner speaks to Mark Robins following their thrilling 3-3 draw with Ipswich Town in midweek.Finally, 1st visit 2nd in the Midlands Football League this weekend as Hanley Town go to Northwich Victoria. Will Bailey, the Hanley secretary, talks to us about the importance of the game. As always, you can listen to the podcast below or on your chosen provider. 

This week’s edition of Moorlands Sport Extra, in association with Leek Building Society, is now out. On the podcast, we hear from Jon Brady and Ben Waine following Port Vale’s epic win over Bristol City in the FA Cup on Tuesday night and we preview Sunday’s game against Sunderland with Brady and Andre Gray. Chris Gibbs speaks to Newcastle Town manager Paul Wright following Castle’s 1-0 win over Chasetown which moves them five points clear of the bottom four in the Northern Premier League West. Finally, we sent Dave Stringer over the Moorlands once again to Buxton to interview speedway promoter Laurence Rodgers as they build up to the new speedway season. As always you can listen to the podcast below or on your chosen podcast provider.