The superfan has seen another six games, bringing him up to 178 for the season and 5,510 all told. Bexhill United, the team he followed home and away in the late 1980s, were promoted on Saturday after scoring the winner about ten seconds from time.

The results were: Feltham 1-0 CB Hounslow United, QC Aces 5-4 Clocktower, Bexhill United 3-2 Forest, Hastings Rangers 3-0 Little Common (U16s), Hanwell Town 1-0 North Leigh (U18s) and Maidenhead United 0-0 St Albans City.

The first game, played at The Orchard last Wednesday, was one of those where one team misses a string of 'unmissable' chances and then loses to a goal scored near the end. Feltham’s decisive goal came in the 87th minute of their last game of the season. Clocktower were 4-2 up at one stage on Pitch 2 at Market Road on Thursday, but succumbed 5-4 in front of a crowd of just under two.

Bexhill’s game with Forest at The Polegrove on Saturday was heart-stopping, probably one of my best 20 games ever. The home side needed to win to clinch the second promotion spot in Division Three and were 1-0 up in eight minutes against a team fighting for their County League lives in 12th place (out of 13).

Bexhill couldn’t get the all-important second goal and Forest inexplicably scored twice in the last 20 minutes to lead 2-1. It looked desperate. Then Peter Heritage, 47, came off the bench and the former pro’ cleverly glanced a header against the underside of the bar and over the line for an equaliser two minutes from the end of normal time.

We needed another goal, but Forest were adept at keeping the ball. In the last seconds of stoppage time, with the referee examining his watch, Bexhill managed to force a corner on the right. The ball drifted over to the far post, players from both sides lunged at it, it bobbled around near the line and ended up in the net. Cue craziness on and off the pitch.

The ref signalled a goal, booked the scorer for taking his shirt off, blew for the restart and almost immediately brought proceedings to a close. "They’ve done it!"

It had been a surreal afternoon. Both teams came out for the kick-off in white shirts and at 2.59 the ref was indicating that the visitors had to change. A Bexhill official rushed off to the dressing rooms and returned with a set of yellow shirts, their away strip. "Come on, you yellows!", shouted the grinning Forest ‘keeper to his team-mates.

On the following afternoon there were more than a hundred friends and family at The Saffrons to watch the 1066 Sporting Club Rother Youth Football League Under-16 Lawrie Webber Cup Final. I don’t know if it has all that on the trophy. I knew Lawrie; he was the Bexhill Observer reporter who covered football. He often gave me a lift to the nearest station after we’d seen Bexhill play at some far-flung outpost like Storrington or Broadbridge Heath.

Hanwell Town’s U18s won Monday night’s Allied Counties League Subsidiary Cup semi-final with a goal in the sixth minute of injury time. I can’t stand much more of this excitement.