PARKY'S BOYS ON A GO-PRO

WHEN Phil Parkinson and Altrincham mapped out their transition to a full-time football club, it was with days like today in mind.

The Robins had hit a low when the former Nantwich Town boss and his assistant Neil Sorvel took over back in 2017.

Back-to-back relegations had seen the Robins slip down to Step 3. Not many would have dreamt they'd be two games from the EFL seven years later.

Having climbed back up to Non-League's top table, Alty went full-time last season before improving again for a fourth-place finish to cap a brilliant campaign.

"I feel that way," Parkinson tells The NLP. "We've been here a long time now - seven seasons - and we've had a promotion, a play-off, a play-off promotion, we've had survival for two years as a part-time outfit, we transitioned to full-time.

"The first full-time team looked like it was on to make the play-offs then in January we lost all our frontline and our captain.

"A lot of teams would have go down with the losses we took on January personnel wise but we recovered well and built again this season. So it's been an upward trajectory and hopefully we can keep going in that direction.