THE BOTTLES of bubbly must have tasted pretty sweet at Ebbsfleet United last Saturday.
After all, this is a club that is accused of losing its bottle when it comes to promotion.
Even during last week’s play-off final, 1-0 behind to Chelmsford and down to ten men, the wisecracks were out on twitter.
“Ebbsfleet bottling it again,” was the general gist. How wrong they were. On the ropes no doubt, they dug deep and turned it around through Dave Winfield and Darren McQueen goals to seal a return to Non-League’s top flight. Now, that’s bottle.
There’s no doubt ...