Back in the 2004-05 season both Stockport County and Wrexham were plying their trade in the third tier of English football.
Not long after both found themselves in non-league, as two uninterrupted stays in the EFL totalling 193 years came crashing to an end. Poor decisions on and off the field resulted in both sinking. The intervening years have not been kind to either.
Wrexham have pottered about in the fifth tier for more than a dozen years, whilst County did sink as low as the National League North before finally escaping in 2019. But both are firmly back on the way up now. They have grand ambitions not just to re-enter the Football League and survive, but thrive.
