He began the week with promotion top of his priority list but headed to Wembley on the back of defeat in the Essex Senior League play-off final, losing the league cup final just two days later.
However, a first look around the home of football quickly banished those memories as attention turned to an FA Vase showpiece that was, in truth, won at a canter against league rivals Great Wakering Rovers.
All of a sudden, Spinks and his boys were on top of the world – and he wouldn’t swap the results.
“I would have done beforehand,” he told The NLP. “If someone had said on Monday that we could win the play-off and lose here, I would have taken it, but not now.
This story is from the May 12, 2024 edition of The Non-League Football Paper.
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