When striker Cedwyn Scott fired home the winning penalty to send 22,000 Notts County fans into ecstasy one word stood out - redemption. Redemption that the same player had a last-kick-of-the-game spot kick saved at Wrexham a few weeks back pretty much condemning us to the dreaded play-offs where we had failed for the past three seasons, had taken us back to the Football League.
It had been a momentous campaign, the team and individual players broke a number of long-standing records and we’d finished so far ahead of Chesterfield if it had been a boxing bout the trainer in the blue and white corner would have thrown in the towel before a punch had been thrown.
But it wasn’t, it was a one-off, winner takes all football game and the prize was the back to the promised land of league football, something both clubs have been without for too long. And as the clock ticked towards 90 minutes the vast majority of Notts fans, like me and all of my mates who had travelled to London, were mentally preparing our away trips to Halifax, York and Gateshead again.
