Cheers Brian. Wasn't to sure about the sale of Stephenson, but I felt the offer too good to refuse
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Having rejected bids for Tony Williams from Premiership clubs, the first game of April saw a trip to play-off chasing
Cardiff. They currently occupied the seventh and last play-off place, but they certainly didn’t show it. Twenty-six minutes gone in the first half, four shots and four goals.
Henderson, Sheridan, Henderson again and then
Clark saw us lead four-nil at half-time and we ended up winning
four-one as Cardiff did manage to grab a consolation goal. What a way to secure promotion, eh? Which is what the three points we got did.
Now assured of promotion I allowed
Tony Williams to talk other clubs. Newcastle were the club that he chose and he will leave at the end of the season in exchange for fellow ‘keeper
Steve Harper. We travelled to
Hull for our next league game and
Fortune-West’s goal on the stroke of half-time saw us lead one-nil at half-time.
Sheridan came on during the break and he fired in a further two goals before Hull pulled one back. No further goals were added and we secured a
three-one victory, a result that took to 100 league points.
Our game on Bank Holiday Monday game brought with it the visit of
Blackpool. The game itself was one of the most uneventful of the season but
Matthews’ second-half strike secured a
one-nil victory. And the
Third Division Championship came along with that victory, so no-one had any complaints about the quality of it. With that in the bag, we travelled to
Kidderminster for our next match. We were behind early and stayed behind until
Clark got us a point with just six minutes to go in a
one-all draw.
Our penultimate game saw us host
Cheltenham at Victoria Park. After a goalless first half,
Sheridan scored the only goal of the game to give us a
one-nil victory. A dire game was quickly forgotten as we received the Third Division trophy after the game. Our last game saw us travel to last-placed
Barnet, who needed a win to be in with a chance of survival. They took the lead early on but
Van Kessel struck just before half-time to make it one-all. That was our 100th goal of the season and there were to be no more as well
drew one-all.
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">********************************************* ***************************************** English Third Division - Saturday 26th May 2001********************************************** ****************************************========== ================================================== ========================== 2000/1 Table============================================= =========================================Pos Team Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag Won Drn Lst For Ag Pts--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1st C HARTLEPOOL 46 20 2 1 48 17 14 4 5 52 33 1082nd P Mansfield 46 15 4 4 45 23 15 3 5 45 23 973rd P Orient 46 13 4 6 39 27 13 6 4 35 25 88--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4th Kidderminster 46 15 3 5 49 27 12 3 8 39 31 875th Lincoln 46 17 4 2 48 23 8 8 7 41 40 876th Cardiff 46 13 7 3 35 18 9 7 7 34 28 807th P Blackpool 46 14 4 5 39 24 10 2 11 27 29 78--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8th Hull 46 11 9 3 31 16 9 3 11 26 30 729th Chesterfield 46 15 5 3 37 19 5 7 11 23 35 7210th Plymouth 46 12 2 9 47 37 8 7 8 38 34 6911th Halifax 46 12 4 7 41 34 6 7 10 26 37 6512th Exeter 46 12 7 4 32 19 5 5 13 32 41 6313th York 46 8 6 9 27 32 10 2 11 35 44 6214th Darlington 46 8 6 9 33 31 6 9 8 23 24 5715th Macclesfield 46 9 7 7 39 33 7 0 16 31 52 5516th Torquay 46 10 5 8 35 30 3 6 14 24 43 5017th Carlisle 46 10 3 10 41 37 3 7 13 33 47 4918th Southend 46 8 3 12 26 32 4 8 11 19 30 4719th Shrewsbury 46 6 7 10 27 35 5 6 12 16 34 4620th Rochdale 46 6 9 8 24 29 4 6 13 15 30 4521st Brighton 46 2 9 12 26 42 7 5 11 25 36 4122nd Scunthorpe 46 5 5 13 25 38 5 4 14 17 33 3923rd Cheltenham 46 6 7 10 27 30 1 9 13 14 40 37--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------24th R Barnet 46 8 6 9 29 30 0 4 19 13 51 34</pre>
Side note : Derby finished 19th in the Premiership, were relegated and Jim Smith was sacked. I applied for the job, but I was overlooked in favour of Huddersfield Town's Steve Bruce 
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