What an unbelievable story. A lot of people have their panties in a bunch over the money, over the celebrities, and over the media attention, but no one genuinely expected such an amazing result with three straight promotions following the first campaign falling just short with a playoff defeat.
It seemed like a joke. Did two Hollywood celebrities really want to buy a soccer club from a long-overlooked Welsh city of 45,000 people that was languishing in the fifth tier of the English game?
They won the National League, they won promotion from League 2, and now they’ve won promotion from League 1 by finishing second. They’re in the Championship next year, and the Premiership is only one promotion away.
Speaking of English football, Castalia Library’s own DWFC finished in the National League South playoffs, in sixth place, but only 3 points behind the champions, Truro City. The crazy thing is that 86 points would have been enough for second last year, and they’ve still got a chance to return to the National League if they can win the next three games. They did score the most goals in the league – 89 – but an occasionally unreliable defense gave up 54, far too many of them late-game equalizers. They only lost 8 games out of 46, but it was the 14 draws, particularly the four points unexpectedly dropped against Aveley and Bath City, that cost them the league title and the automatic promotion.
