Stocksbridge Park Steels manager Chris Hilton has slammed the Northern Premier League over their botched attempt to restart the season. The NPL announced at the beginning of last week that the campaign would remain on hold and be looked again after the Government’s review of the Tier allocations on December 16th. However, the following day read more→
Stalwart captain Liam McFayden’s dual-registration deal with Athersley Rec has benefits for both clubs, Stocksbridge Park Steels manager Chris Hilton says. McFadyen recently ended his sabbatical from the Non League scene and with Stocksbridge not playing over Christmas, it provided a bedroom-sized window of opportunity for him to be lent to the Rec to get read more→
Ryan Laight has returned to Stocksbridge Park Steels as first team coach after nearly three years away. Laight will be back working alongside assistant manager Lee Thompson and manager Chris Hilton. The former defender signed as player/joined at the beginning of Hilton’s reign in 2014. He then became assistant manager the following year and he read more→
Ex-Sheffield United youngster Harrison Foulstone has joined Chris Hilton’s Stocksbridge Park Steels. Foulstone was with the Blades from the age of six until his release this year after being a regular in the under 18s. In all he was there 12 years. Initially he joined Gainsborough Trinity in September and played several times for Curtis read more→
Penistone Church have signed two players from local neighbours Stocksbridge Park Steels Kurtis Turner and Johnny Pugh are likely to go into the squad for Saturday’s eagerly-anticipated FA Vase tie against AFC Liverpool. Turner ends his second spell at Bracken Moor to move to Penistone. Attacker Pugh was on the fringes of Chris Hilton’s squad read more→
Experienced Staveley Miners Welfare midfielder Sam Finlaw has joined Stocksbridge Park Steels. His arrival at Bracken Moor has helped ease Stocksbridge’s injury problems which see Joe Lumsden and Lewis Whitham on the treatment table. The move reunites him with ex-team-mates Michael Trench, Ross Goodwin and Stuart Ludlam. Finlaw is in line to make his Stocksbridge read more→
Stocksbridge Park Steels manager Chris Hilton believes the FA need to start preparing to provide financial aid to Non League clubs if the Government orders another lockdown. Fears the country will follow the decisions of the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales in having a ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown are growing. That’s on top of the three read more→
Manchester United young goalkeeper Jacob Carney has joined Brighouse Town on loan. The youngster, the son of former Ossett Albion stopper and ex-Belper Town boss Andy, spent last season with Stocksbridge Park Steels. He earned rave reviews for his performances for the Steels. Carney signed his first professional contract with United in May. Brighouse are read more→
NPL Division One South East Round-Up Somersaulting Luke Mangham led Stocksbridge Park Steels to a remarkable late and epic 4-3 win over leaders Belper Town at Bracken Moor. Chris Hilton’s Steels trailed three times and they were losing 3-2 with ten minutes to go when the former Garforth Town striker Mangham heroically intervened. Belper, managed read more→
“The reason why that memory sticks in my mind is because when you say it now it doesn’t sound right. Jamie Vardy had to retake a penalty for Stocksbridge Park Steels reserves in a penalty shootout at Athersley Rec in the County Senior League Cup and he had a bloke on the sidelines trying to read more→
