Playoffs??? An Addams Family Miracle

Were you watching on Thursday?  I was, and I still don’t believe it.  Wednesday lost the away leg nil-4 to Dick Town (aka Petersborough), a gap that no side in EFL playoff HISTORY had ever overcome.  But Wednesday scored two in the first half, allowing the supporters to dream and causing Dick Town to undrop its bollocks.

In the 2nd half, the visitors played like a Gravy Tits side away to City of Men.  They wouldn’t have attacked the Wednesday goal if they had pulled their keeper.  Still…the 70th minute 3rd was all the now-exhausted Owls could muster during 90 minutes.

They’d get 6 extra, and Dick Town tried the match official’s patience.  9 times out of 10, that’s a successful (if gutless) strategy.  But this time…they fucked around and found out.  6 minutes went up on the board, but I saw the ref tap his watch at least once (which is quasi-sign language for “add another minute”).  So, as the 7th minute ticked away, Dick Town’s body language was “alright, job done.”

But the whistle didn’t blow.  Play on.  They’d need to gain possession, or at least make another clearence of any danger.  They did neither.  A cross found its way into the box, bounced pass both the main attacker and defender, with an also-marked 2nd sticking a boot in to slide the 4th miraculously home.

The crowd reaction can’t be described, you just had to see and hear it.  And now, somehow…the sides had to go another half hour.

Good news?  Number 5 also went in off an Owl head.  Bad news?  Said Owl was defending his own goal, and Dick Town led 5-4 on aggregate.  Lucky for Wednesday, there is no “away goals” rule any more.  They only needed one equalizer tp force pennos – and they got it.  Now, I kind of expected Dick Town to just forfeit.  Instead, they missed while Wednesday rifled in 5 no-doubters, on to Wembley.

They’ll get Barnsley in the League One playoff final, Hippo watching them beat Bolton as of this writing.

Championship bracket is set as well, with Luton Town taking on Coventry City.  Either would be an amazing story in the Prem, having been together in League Two only 5 years ago.  But we all want to see one of the “celebrity” Prem managers forced onto the narrow touchlines of Kenilworth Road next season.  So lets have it, Luton.

League Two plays both of their ties this morning, so you can ignore the Redshite/Bonesaws ball-gargling on USA.  I’m just going to pretend nothing of import is going on there, and hope for the best.

See y’all in the comments.