Such is Newport County’s injury plight that manager Michael Flynn is threatening to come out of retirement to play in the Leasing.com Trophy tie at Brighton U21 at the Amex Stadium tonight (7.00pm, Tuesday). The Exiles picked up two more injuries in their 1-0 FA Cup win at Maldon & Tiptree as they reached the third round for the fourth time in five years. But they lost central defenders Mark O’Brien and Kyle Howkins in the process. Howkins was forced to spend the weekend in hospital after coming off worst in a sickening clash of heads with home striker Charlee Hughes, while O’Brien is suffering from “bone bruising”. They joined an injury list that contains Mickey Demetriou, Dan Leadbitter, Scot Bennett, Robbie Willmott, Joss Labadie, Taylor Maloney, Keanu Marsh-Brown and Ade Azeez.

Newport County beware! Manager Michael Flynn and his Exiles play Isthmian League North Maldon and Tiptree in Essex this evening and there is clear and imminent danger in the fixture. Maldon is a town close to the Blackwater Estuary in Essex and their team have massively over-achieved so far this season. They are unbeaten in […]

Newport County striker Padraig Amond is ready to underline his status as an FA Cup goalscoring great this evening. Amond has already eclipsed a host of legendary strikers with his scoring sequence in the competitions and has just one more epic No.9 left in his sights. County’s Irish goal machine has overtaken Jackie Milburn and Nat Lofthouse, drawn level with Jeff Astle and Peter Osgood, and now only the great Stan Mortensen is ahead of him.

Newport boss Michael Flynn gave a brutally frank assessment that his side “looked at best a mid-table team,” following their 1-0 home defeat to Oldham Athletic. A first-half stoppage time goal for Oldham’s Zak Mills was all that separated the two sides, shifting Oldham up two places up into 20th. Newport drop down into 11th. But Saturday’s defeat makes it three successive League Two defeats in a row – the first time that has happened since December 2018.

Tom King is worried he may have found his way onto the Madridistas’ hit list after standing next to Gareth Bale in Wales’ post-match celebrations after qualifying for the Euros this week. Bale’s team-mates huddled around the Real Madrid star after the game and draped a Welsh flag that carried the controversial slogan ‘Wales. Golf. Madrid.’ in front of him. That celebration created a storm back in the Spanish capital as tensions between the one-time world’s most expensive player and his club plummeted to an all-time low. Standing next to the four times Champions League winner was League Two goalkeeper, King.

Manager Gavin Williams and his Martyrs have had a second successive BetVictor Southern League march postponed. Merthyr Town were due to play Poole Town away last weekend, but the team coach was caught in heavy traffic and the fixture was called. That delayed the debut of defender Ismail Yakubu, signed on loan from Hayes and […]

Newport boss Michael Flynn is eyeing up another lucrative Cup run after the Exiles continued their FA Cup love affair with a hard-fought 2-0 win over Grimsby. Worth £111,000 for the winner (£36,000 for progressing into round two, and £75,000 for a televised second round), the victory allowed manager Flynn to make clear he was hungry for more. “I want more, I want to earn more, I want to be in the third round,” said Flynn. “I won’t be taking nothing for granted.”

Tom King was given a crash course in learning the Welsh national anthem after he received a mobile call from Ryan Giggs. Newport County goalkeeper King was called up alongside Wayne Hennessey and Adam Davies for Euro 2020 qualifiers against Azerbaijan in Baku on Saturday and Hungary at Cardiff City Stadium next Tuesday. The call-up […]

Michael Flynn says Newport County’s 2-1 defeat to newly promoted Salford City “should be a harsh lesson”. The County manager also accused his players of over-confidence and suggested some of they had inflated their own worth. “It’s a reality check for them,” said a frustrated Flynn, after Newport suffered back-to-back defeats for the first time this season.

Darren Jones is trying to shake-up junior football in Wales, with a new development programme branded under the name of Scottish giants, Celtic. But his new venture – and old school approach – appears to be on a collision course with the existing powers, as Robert Wheeler reports. Former Newport County captain Darren Jones believes Welsh football is missing out by not having a stepping stone between grassroots and academy level. In response, Jones has created his own Newport-based development centre – Celtic South Wales (CSW) Elite FC, which boasts links to Scottish giants Celtic.

Michael Flynn is causing a stir in SkyBet League Two. He has steered Newport County into fifth place, only three points behind leaders Crewe with a game in hand. Welshman Flynn has received honourable mentions throughout the Football League for the way he has rebuilt and revitalised County over the last two and a half […]

Wales back row forward Aaron Wainwright has been one of the success stories of the World Cup. But had Newport County got their man five years ago, then, as Graham Thomas reports, it would been a whole new ball game. If Aaron Wainwright had taken a different path at 17, then he could have been playing Premier League football this weekend instead of trying to help Wales into the final of the Rugby World Cup. The Wales flanker has been one of the breakout global stars of the tournament in Japan, his status already assured before his man-of-the-match performance in the victory over France in last week’s quarter-final.