York City and Halifax Town have no time to bask in midweek with records at stake for Minstermen
York City are not hiding from being on the verge of history at Morecambe on Saturday, but they have no choice but to keep their foot down if they achieve it.
Like Halifax Town, they have no time to bask in a great midweek.
No English professional team have more points this season than the Minstermen's 80. A ninth straight win to extend their unbeaten record to 24 matches would set two club records.
Whilst York's title fate is in their own hands after Halifax took two points off Rochdale as they won at Scunthorpe United on Tuesday, the same is true of Dale, their hosts in what threatens to be an epic final game of the regular season at Spotland on April 25.
First-team coach Gary Elphick does not see it as a pressure.
"We've spoken about it, and it needs to be spoken about," he said of the records on the line at 5.30pm. "The players deserved to be spoken about, the management deserve to be spoken about.
"Let's embrace it. There's been times when this football club hasn't achieved and it's gone on bad runs. Let's really enjoy it."
If Will Harris and Tom Lavery's late goals to turn a 2-0 Halifax deficit into a 2-2 draw went down well on Scunthorpe’s away terraces, they were did not muscle the Shaymen back into the top seven, so manager Adam Lakeland is looking to keep the momentum up at home to Sutton United.
That is as much about the fans.
"Every game at home now is a massive, massive game for us," he said. "It's easy to come out on a Tuesday night against Rochdale.
"We need you to come out against Sutton, on the Saturday against Boreham Wood, and against your Carlisles and your Scunthorpes – every point is massively important to us."