Salford City v Tranmere Rovers – Match Report @Peninsula Stadium English Football League Two Saturday 10th October 2020 Mike Jackson’s men show that their qualities stretch to the characters that they are, in an amazing comeback to equalise against league title candidates Salford City despite the squad being affected by COVID-19. Murphy – nelson clarke …
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Scunthorpe United (H): Match report
Tranmere Rovers 2 v Scunthorpe United 0 Saturday 3rd October 2020 Prenton Park English Football League Two First of all, I would like to send my condolences to those who knew and were close to Ryan Soderberg. Ryan passed away suddenly on 15th September 2020 and is certainly Tranmere’s shining star. This saturday afternoon on …
Cheltenham Town (H) – Match report.
Tranmere Rovers 0 v Cheltenham Town 3 Prenton Park Saturday 19th September 2020 Opinionated match report – how can we improve? Ultimately the performance against Cheltenham at Prenton Park wasn’t anywhere near ‘good enough’. Thus, for this weekend I’m going to change the type of match report I usually provide. I’m going to try and …
TRANMERE ROVERS V MANCHESTER UNITED – MATCH REPORT
Prenton Park and Birkenhead was an area of excitement on Sunday 26th January 2020 as Tranmere hosted Ole Gunar Solksjaer’s supergiants Manchester United in the fourth round of the FA Cup, following on from a 2-1 home win against Watford that required the use of extra time to set up the fourth round tie. Micky …
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TRANMERE V COVENTRY CITY: MATCH REPORT
TRANMERE ROVERS V COVENTRY CITY: MATCH REPORT It was Mark Robins’ ‘Skyblues’ that we’re the first visitors to Prenton Park of the 2020’s decade. They came into the game in good form, after a 4-1 victory at Adams Park. However, Tranmere were looking to extend their second half performance against Blackpool a few days earlier …
Wycombe Wanderers v Tranmere Rovers : FA Cup first round.
Micky Mellon’s ‘super whites’ are into the second round of the FA Cup after a wonderful closely contested display against Gareth Ainsworth’s ‘Chairboys’, with the use of extra time. Similar to many previous fixtures this season, Tranmere started with an attacking intent. Kieron Morris delivering a free kick into the box, a few minutes into …
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Milton Keynes v Tranmere Rovers : Match report.
Tranmere’s ‘on the road’ visit to Buckinghamshire was a visible improvement on previous fixtures. The Tranmere manager, Micky Mellon, made three changes to the side that were beaten 5-0 on the stadium of light ten days ago. Sid Nelson replaced George Ray, as Ray took his place on the bench. There were two changes to …
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Sunderland v Tranmere : Match report
Tranmere’s midweek journey to Sunderland left them with the message ‘move on from the past, concentrate on the future’. Micky Mellon made two changes from his side that previously drew, at home, to Southend United. Connor Jennings and Paul Mullin replaced the injured Corey Blackett-Taylor and Rushian Hepburn Murphy on the line-up that would compete …
Tranmere Rovers v Southend United : Match report.
‘A poor performance under the Friday night lights of Prenton Park’ Micky Mellon’s side continue their unbeaten run with a disappointing 1-1 home draw with Southend United. There was a few changes to the side that were victorious at Coventry, with Sundays 1-0 ‘smash and grab win’ : Hepburn-Murphy replaced the injured Mullin and Danns, …
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Coventry City v Tranmere Rovers : Match report
In a game described as a ‘smash and grab’, Micky Mellon’s men defeat promotion chasing Coventry City at Birmingham City’s St Andrews stadium. Due to absences with suspensions, injury or international call ups the ‘Super Whites’ replaced Connor Jennings (suspended) with Corey Blackett-Taylor, Neill Danns (international call up) with George Ray meaning Liam Ridehalgh took his …
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