One Monday back in December, David Seaman dipped his hand into a glass bowl, fished out ball No 61, chortled into a camera and sent an FA Cup flashback through a market town in north-east Derbyshire.
'Unfinished business,' smiled Chesterfield chairman Mike Goodwin once the din of being drawn against Chelsea subsided. 'If David Elleray had given that goal when he should have, that would've been 3-1 up with 20 minutes left. I'm sure we'd have gone on to Wembley and played Chelsea in the final.'
At Stamford Bridge on Saturday, comes a third round tie with hidden depth for fans of a club with little to cheer in recent years, nagged by a footballing injustice for a quarter of a century.