Visiting the world's first football club on Non-League Day
Great sausage sandwiches, a cheerful atmosphere and last-minute equalisers: What other reason would you need to watch Sheffield FC?
Our journey started by getting the 43 bus, which stopped right outside The Home of Football Stadium.
Tucked just around the corner is the Climax Café, where server Angela made us some much needed food and a cup of tea .
Angela stressed that Sheffield FC was an important part of the local community.
She said: "We are are at our busiest when the team are playing locally.
"The club is definitely important for the local community, you’ve only got to see the number of people walking down to the club on a Saturday, it’s amazing.
"It’ll get even better when they move to Meadowhead. I’m not saying our business will suffer when the club moves to their new ground, but we will feel it."
"It brings me joy coming here"
Once into the ground, several visitors spoke to us about why they had decided to come today.
By pure coincidence, one of these people was veteran sports journalist Jonathan Lang.
His stint at The Sheffield Morning Telegraph was proceeded by legendary commentator John Motson, who he actually brought up to Sheffield for his interview.
He said: "It brings me joy coming here, I only live five minutes up the road.
"I don’t need a reminder about Non-League Day. Essentially I have only really covered non-league football."
The pair were founding members of Roving Reporters Football Club in 1965, and Jonathan stressed how important the base of the footballing pyramid is.
He said: "Non-league football is the grassroots, every town up and down the country has a football team whether that’s at the top of the pyramid in the national league or right down to the three clubs there are in Dronfield."
As we chatted, paper team sheets were handed round, with the ground steadily filling up to watch "The Club" play Pontefract Collieries.
A quick trip to the club shop followed, before we settled in around the side of the pitch.
To our right, a small group of vocal young fans helped build the atmosphere as we anticipated kick-off.
"The home crowd are hoping Sheffield FC can make miraculous comeback"
We picked the absolutely perfect game to watch. But little did we know that after the first half.
Pontefract Collieries were 2-0 up at half-time, despite there being little between the sides.
This was only made worse straight after the kick-off, when Sheffield FC immediately conceded a third. It seemed that all hope was lost for a result.
A goal in the 75th minute to make it 3-1 seemed like solely a consolation.
But when Basile Zottos capitalised on a mistake from the Pontefract goalkeeper just before the 90th, what started as a glimmer of hope turned into a full blown assault onto the opposite net as team and crowd alike erupted into action.
With seconds to go, substitute Marc Newsham managed to bundle the ball over the line - sending the stadium into raptures.
The goal scorer ran to celebrate in front of the fans standing outside the Coach & Horses pub, as manager Ryan Cresswell hugged a member of his coaching team.
Fans slowly left the ground, with some piling into the pub to celebrate.
Needing to return home, we jumped on the 43 once more- with buoyant fans serenading us with chants on the top deck as we made our way back up Chesterfield Road.
It might not be the Premier League, or international football.
But it doesn't need to be.
Our day out at Sheffield FC was everything you could hope for.
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