Big Tim Sills scores the second for Torquay against Cambridge
The worst game of footy I ever went to see was Torquay United against Cheltenham Town in 2000, so bad I can’t put it into words in fact. I don’t begrudge them a return to league football, though. The Gulls return to the Football League while Cambridge remain a little longer in the Blue Square Premier, AKA the conference, after their second play-off final defeat in a row. The deadlock was broken when a long ball was flicked on to Elliot Benyon who laid the ball to Chris Hargreaves, who in turn fired in from the edge of the area. Tim Sills then headed home to bring league football back to Plainmoor after a two-year absence. It is a cruel old game, but Torquay deserved their victory and had, on the last day of the league programme, done Cambridge a favour in defeating league the champions, Burton Albion. Had Cambridge beaten Altrincham they could have gone up automatically, but now they must wallow in what might have been.
