National League 2021-22 End of Season Review
Thanks to the discussions around whether National League clubs could complete a play-off campaign during the height of COVID, National League football is classed as elite. Therefore, the final football match of the football calendar for the English elite was not the Football League play-offs or the Champions League final – it was the National League play-off final at the London Stadium ( which, coincidentally, I wrote about ). T alk about saving the best until last. Okay, that was sort of a joke but it wasn’t really, was it? The National League play-off campaign was sensational. Grimsby Town found the net in the final minutes of normal and extra time to equalise and ultimately beat Notts County a day before Chesterfield stunned FC Halifax Town in their eliminator with their best performance under Paul Cook. What followed was an incredible match at The Racecourse between Wrexham and Grimsby which finished 5-4 to the visitors before Solihull Moors came from a goal d