I’ve been watching Wrexham since 1978. That’s 44 long years of devotion. Some of those years felt very long indeed!

Yet the past few month has flown by. We’ve just experienced one of the most special, wonderful series of games any Wrexham supporters have enjoyed. It’s time to take stock and relish what we’ve witnessed.

The seven consecutive home games we’ve just played out isn’t a unique sequence – we played eight in a row in 1908 – but it certainly felt remarkable.

Those seven games took place in the space of just 28 days. Every 4 days we went back to The Racecourse to partake once more, and revel in how fabulous this team is.

Bare statistics rarely tell the full story, but in this case it’s worth taking a moment to soak them in. Six wins and a draw. An aggregate score of 25-9. We scored 3 or more five times, and 6 in consecutive league games.  Oh, and we qualified for a cup final at Wembley!

It’s not as if we were playing easy opposition either. We faced the three sides that make up the top 4 of the division with us, and beat two of them by a 2-goal margin. The only points we dropped were to Solihull Moors, and they were mightily lucky to escape with a point.

From the start of the season Wrexham’s fans have bought into the adventure, but these games have really cemented a remarkable bond. Appropriately, the sequence ended with us attracting a crowd of over 10,000 to The Racecourse for the first time since we dropped out of the Football League.

In fact, we recorded our first-, second- and fourth-largest crowds of the season so far over the last month, as well as more than doubling our largest ever FA Trophy crowd away from Wembley.

In the midst of a cost of living crisis, with COVID cases rising, it would have been no surprise to see the crowds dwindling as time went on. In fact, the opposite happened. With every new drama, the appetite for more grew.

And boy, was there drama! It’s understandable that the fans would have faith in this team. After all, it refuses to lose. The crazy 6-5 against Dover was proof of that, but remember that Mullin’s match-winning double against Stockport came in added time, as did his winner against Eastleigh.

We thrashed four teams, and somehow found a way to win in the other two victories. It all had a pleasingly logical sense of inevitability about it. Perhaps the biggest shock was that we didn’t find an added time winner against Solihull Moors.

The faith the fans have developed in this team has led to the creation of some really strong relationships with individuals on the pitch too. Something very odd would be afoot if the fans didn’t love an extrovert match-winner like Mullin, but Palmer’s larger-than-life charisma has also had an impact. Aaron Hayden – The Red Baron – is a real cult hero, but one whose popularity is created not by a flawed nature, but by his awesome physicality. Sometimes, it just feels like it’s not fair on the other side that he’s allowed to play.

Throw in local-boy-made-legend Jordan Davies, the tirelessness of Luke Young and James Jones, the thrilling promise of Max Cleworth, Reece Hall-Johnson’s streaks down the flank and Ben Tozer’s massive presence, and you have a really likeable band. And then there’s the wonderful redemption of Christian Dibble as he bounced back from a bad day against Dover to excel against Stockport.

The final goal of these games encapsulated what had gone before perfectly. 

We’d just gone 3-0 up against Altrincham, and Jordan Davies took advantage of the celebrations to change his boots. He didn’t make it back onto the pitch in time for the restart though, despite Ollie Palmer’s craftily slow dawdle back to his own half, so we had to play with ten men. Paul Mullin dropped diligently back to fill Davies’ deeper spot, and clearly we’d just keep it tight until we were back up to eleven men.

Not a bit of it. Forty-five seconds later it was 4-0!

I feel a tinge of regret that this sequence is over; I want to go back and experience it all again. Perhaps that’s the best thing about the last month though. It didn’t feel fragile, or surprising. The quality of the side we’re building makes me confident that we’ll be experiencing these wonderful highs again and again in the next few years.