It took my beloved Hartlepool United four years to get out of the National League so you can understand why I’m reluctant to go back.

To be honest, it’s been another of those ‘don’t watch but don’t look away’ seasons for us in League Two.

Heading into the weekend we were third bottom, but had played a couple more games than the team directly below us, Crawley.

It looks as if it will go right to the wire, but if after eight or nine games this season you had said to Hartlepool fans that we would have a chance of staying in the Football League in the run-in, most would have taken it.

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