by Alviro Patterson » Tue May 08, 2018 12:28 am
The National League Playoffs are just ruddy brilliant
6230 packed into Edgeley Park for the Eliminator between Stockport County and Chorley. The latter soaking up pressure and sneaking it 1-0.
Then onto the Semi-Final where Chorley travelled to Harrogate. Once again Chorley soaking up pressure and took the lead through a defensive lapse, but went down to 10 men on 44 minutes for a dangerous tackle.
Harrogate set up camp in the Chorley half like keen teenagers going to their first 3 day festival. A shot thundered off the bar, looked like it went over the line, referee blew her whistle and gave a penalty for a goal denying foul where only a yellow card was issued. Harrogate equalised from the spot on the hour.
Chorley did venture out into Harrogates half late on and nearly sneaked a winner. However Harrogates persistence paid and won it in the 94th minute, pure scenes and jubilation amongst the players and fans. Experiences and pressure ever seen in Premier League U23 matches or Checkatrade Trophy group stage matches. Non league football is where it's at now, it feels like when I was watching football pre Roman Abramovich.
"Stats are there to be broken" Dominic Cork
"They took all our players away, banned our captain and we still came away with a ten-wicket victory" Jason Gillespie
"You won't get anywhere slouching about half out of bed" Geoffrey Boycott
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