The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
A fitting finale to complete a special day for Sports
It was a fitting finale in may ways as Peterborough Sports made certain of another season at National League North level.
A first win at King’s Lynn Town – traditional big hitters at this level – secured by a last-gasp goal from joint player-manager Michael Gash, a man who remains a hero to Linnetts fans was a lovely little end-of-season story.
Gash and his co-boss Luke Steele have achieved what many thought was impossible. They stepped into the shoes of club legend Jimmy Dean and managed to build on their predecessor’s incredible achievements.
Sports have made a mockery of ‘second-season syndrome’ and managed more points this time around than in their debut campaign.
They can’t though match last season’s 14th place finish.
"It was a great way to ensure we stayed up,” Gash said. “We wanted to do the job ourselves without relying on other teams and to win the way we did, at a big club in front of 1,600 fans, many of them our own, was a great feeling.
"It was nice for me to get the goal at a club that means so much to me, but the whole team deserve great praise.”
Gash had only entered the fray as an 80th minute substitute, but in added time he struck with a lovely curling shot from just outside the area which beat former Posh ‘keeper Paul Jones.
Lynn’s former Stamford AFC striker Jonathan Margetts was sent off five minutes into the second-half for a crude challenge on Dan Lawlor, although Sports had looked the likelier winners against 11 men.
Dan Jarvis struck the crossbar in the first half from 20 yards.