THE NLP’S GREATEST EVER SEASONS
IN THE return of a brand new series this summer, we look back to the 2004-05 season to relive a breakthrough season at Carlisle United where dampened spirits from the worst floods to hit Cumbria in 200 years were lifted by promotion to the Football League…

IT was just after 2pm on January 8, 2005 that the river Eden burst its banks. By nightfall, Brunton Park was under eight feet of water.
“We were away at Stevenage when the flood hit,” recalls Matt Glennon, Carlisle’s goalkeeper during the club’s solitary season ...