The game was a pretty highly charged affair. The atmosphere at Filbert Way was a bit more like it, the anti-F"£$%^ songs ringing out louder than anything else has this season! The players seemed up for it and there was little pulling out of tackles. 6 yellow cards, most justified, with F"£$%^ resorting to cheating when things didn't go their way. They couldn't cope with the physical and stifling way City controlled them and resorted to giving free kicks away, pulling City players back and tripping them up.

City resorted to hoofing the ball up field quite a lot, but Tricky Trev and Tommy Wright looked to be struggling to get into the physical game early on. Was it a baptism of fire for Tommy who was actually making his first full debut in such a big game?

Alan Rogers, up for it against his old team, looked like he desperately wanted to get on the score sheet and nearly had a penalty after only 7 minutes as he went charging through on goal. Rogers isn't the diving sort but the ref, who was a bit of a chicken sh*t all game and should have booked some of their players a lot earlier and even sent one off, waved play on.

City were the more dominant for the first half hour but most of the chances were a bit half hearted and didn't really test the F"£$%^ keeper. The breakthrough came on 37 minutes.

Quick work from the ballboy (well done kid) saw Jordan Stewart have a crack on goal. F"£$%^ could only clear straight into the path of Tommy Wright, poaching near goal a la Lineker and he easily tapped in a goal that only Akinbiyi could have missed. Tommy ended up over the hoardings and hugging some woman on the front row of the Lineker Stand and the F"£$%^ fans were silent for a long long time.

The City fans then had an hour biting their nails! Not helped by Tricky Trev making some absolute howlers but at least we could laugh about it. Callum Davidson made some great tackles and Muzzy created some stuff in midfied when we weren't hoofing it about. Mad Frank had a few problems down the wing as F"£$%^ used their pace, but our central defence was rock solid, especially Taggs, and Walker only had to gather a few balls. Jordan Stewart showed some nice skill and some good runs, and Tommy Wright had a couple of spells of showboating and played a superb game.

The last ten minutes were stressfull, the last five nail biting and the 3 minutes of stoppage time absolute agony.

But as the ref blew the whistle the City fans relaxed and started to chant "We are going up" all the way out of the stadium and down Filbert Way.