The end of a long season, and an even longer 4 year period amongst the non-league world.
When I started this blog I dared to hope it would end with winning the league, and for a long time it seemed that was destined to be. But Stevenage proved stronger and the play off lottery loomed.
Avoiding Luton in the semis, York beating them and Wilder getting the team just right for the last 3 games all contributed to Promotion yesterday.
The game was the proverbial roller coaster, 2 goals up in 20 minutes and York rarely threatened - it all looked too easy. But Clarke made a very rare error - unchallenged the wet ball slipped from his hands and rolled into the net - and this made the second half very very tense, and the longer it went and the deeper Oxford sat the more nervous we got.
But Wilder got it right again, bringing on the two small quick subs Potter and Deering with the aim of punishing York while they pushed forward - and the tension evaporated when they combined to seal promotion with a cool move and a clinical finish from Potter - a goal he deserved.And that, as they say dear reader, was that. The end to a great day and a deserved vistory.
Nothing more to add - League 2 beckons with its glamour fixtures Bury, Hereford, Lincoln ... and we wouldn't swap it for anything - apart from League 1 - but that's for another day.
