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Both teams had accrued more than 100 points and scored more than 100 goals in an exhilarating title race. Both, undoubtedly, deserved to be members in the EFL the next season.
Yet despite Notts finishing the season with a total of 107 points – 23 more than third-placed Chesterfield – they had to settle for a place in the play-offs and eventually scraped into League Two via a penalty-shootout win over the Spireites at Wembley.
“It’s just insane to me in this league that only one goes up automatically,” Reynolds told BT Sport [now TNT Sport] after the televised game.
“If it were different – and I think it should be – both of these clubs would be celebrating together right now because what they’ve done has not only created drama unlike anything you’d ever see in a damn movie, but something that I think people will be talking about for ages.”
Quite the endorsement from one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
And now the National League as a whole is demanding an extra promotion place to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself.
Wrexham’s fifth-tier title win in 2023 already feels like a distant memory.
Under the stewardship of Reynolds and co-owner Rob McElhenney the north Wales club are on the hunt for an unprecedented third successive promotion, which would take them up to the Championship.
Yet back in the National League, the talk of a change to the system is very much back on the agenda.
This week, all 72 clubs across non-league steps one and two wrote to the Football League to demand an extra promotion spot between the National League and League Two to make it three up and three down.
Currently, only the champions in top spot gain automatic promotion to the EFL, a position currently occupied by Barnet.
Teams finishing second down to seventh then enter the play-offs, whereby second and third receive a bye to the …
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