Spireites parade celebrations
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00:00 that this achievement ranks in your career?
00:03 The best, the best without a doubt.
00:06 I think the National League is so much tougher than people will know.
00:10 Every game is really hard, especially when you're the biggest club in the division.
00:14 Everybody wants to beat you.
00:16 And again, I say it all the time,
00:18 there's so many good people behind the football scene at the minute.
00:22 It's untrue.
00:23 But the players and the staff have been absolutely magnificent.
00:26 Backed up by 8,000 average gates,
00:29 which has made us unstoppable this year.
00:32 And in your own words,
00:35 what would you like to say about the players?
00:39 Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
00:42 Apart from the last five games where we haven't turned up for any of them.
00:46 They've been absolutely fantastic.
00:49 A league season's 46 games,
00:51 and at the end of the season, the best teams are at the top,
00:55 and unfortunately for the ones at the bottom, that's football.
00:58 We were clearly the best team in the league by a mile.
01:00 So congratulations to everybody.
01:02 Paul, it's a team effort,
01:11 as you're always the first to acknowledge.
01:14 How much has the support you've received from your staff and the board helped this season?
01:21 I think all football's in a funny place at the minute
01:24 because of the problems that happen in a football club.
01:27 I just speak inside there.
01:29 Chesterfield Football Club is probably in the best position it's ever been in, in its history.
01:35 And that's great credit to everyone involved.
01:37 Supporters, players, management, above us, people in work, they're a credit to the town.
01:44 And finally, Paul, what is your key message to the supporters?
01:52 Get off our back.
01:56 You just look around today, and the football club means so much to the community.
02:02 And now and again, we need each other,
02:04 and we should always be there for each other, sometimes when times aren't so good.
02:08 You should be the credit this year, it's the players, but there will be dark days ahead.
02:13 When those dark days come, make sure we stay together strong.
02:16 Let's make sure we do.
02:21 We've got one thing that's going to happen any moment.