Supporting Rochdale should come with a health warning. For all that football has a wonderful propensity for drama, few clubs have ever packed in the heartstopping tension of their past fortnight. But, after it all, they are a Football League club again. And that is all that matters.
Hopes of returning to the ranks of the country’s top 92 clubs looked to have disintegrated with seconds remaining for Boreham Wood to cling on for victory in this extraordinary National League playoff final. Then came Mani Dieseruvwe’s 97th-minute equaliser to send the match into extra time that preceded penalties.
