I wasn’t among those fortunate to be at the Scholars Ground on Tuesday night.
But from all the reports and the old imagination it must have roared and crackled like nothing else.
Just when perhaps we all start to get completely fed up with football’s commercialism, brassed off with genuine supporters being priced out of the game and sick and tired of over-paid prima-donnas in it for money rather than love, along comes a story like Chasetown.
A bunch of part-timers from the Southern Midlands league, with a ground boasting only a 140-seat stand and temporary terracing, are into the Third Round of the FA Cup to tackle Welsh giants Cardiff complete with Robbie Fowler and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. (if the pair of them of them fancy it of course!)
Marvellous scenes, historic scenes, with the latest instalment in the Chasetown dream Tuesday’s epic win against Port Vale.
Not only did Vale miss one penalty, they missed two.
And it wasn’t until the 89th minute that Chasetown substitute Danny Smith struck the decisive winning goal.
Steven Spielberg couldn’t have written it any better.
So onto Cardiff, onto Dave Jones, a manager lauded by Chasetown counterpart Charlie Blakemore after taking Wolves into the Premiership four-and-a-half years ago.
And what a talent Blakemore is proving for turning his team of part-timers into a well-oiled and seemingly invincible machine just destined for slaying giants.
His inspirational team-talks, captured on video, are becoming the stuff of legend.
“They look like they’re from Kwik-Fit with their tracksuits,” he said of the “fancy dan” students of Team Bath ahead of the First Round victory.
“They’ve been playing on their PlayStations all day while you’ve done a day’s work,” prior to last night and the professionals of Vale.
With gems like those, perhaps we could forgive the partisan BBC Radio Stoke commentary on the Internet last night which finished with the rather patronising, “Vale ought to be beating teams like these.”
Blakemore is surely destined for bigger and better things, but certainly not until he’s taken Chasetown where he wants them to be.
And how refreshing too to see a manager and group of players clearly welcoming all the press and public attention and yet being able to cut through the distractions to continue doing the business on the pitch.
Those team-talks, television clips, press cuttings, all are being gleefully kept and meticulously stored away for future reference.
And rightly so.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime event – or maybe not given Chasetown’s march to the First Round and replay with Oldham two years ago!
But in the years to come those videos, DVD’s and cuttings will see the memories flooding back of the finest footballing memories Blakemore and company will ever experience.
And who knows? With Cardiff not exactly pulling up trees in the Championship this season, there may yet be more historic footage to come.