Best Weston! Curtis Is Now On A Spireites Survival Mission

Curtis Weston is 33 and knows feelings like last weekend’s extra dramatic fourth minute of injury time winner over Wrexham may not come around much longer.

Question is, should it have counted?

“Oh yes!” the former Millwall man stressed. “I hit it well, the ball hit the underside of the crossbar and it went over the line - 100 per cent.

“People have sent me pictures where it shows it’s gone in. It was a great moment, Wrexham always give us a good game and it meant a lot to get the win last weekend.

“I have been asked a couple of times every day this week if it actually went in, but I know it did!

“We’re in football for big moments like that and when they come along you need to remember them.”

The Chesterfield midfielder, like his team-mates, have found a new lease of life under caretaker John Pemberton.

Winning three of his five games at the helm, their season has been given oxygen again when the National League North was opening its jaws.

Still in the bottom four ahead of this weekend’s live BT Sport game at Yeovil, but now playing with belief.

“Pembo has come in and it’s like a fresh start for everyone,” Weston, the former Banet title winner, added.

“He’s worked hard on himself as a coach - that is quite clear. He involves the players and is a one-on-one manager. It’s given us a new energy and his influence is really being felt.

“But we can’t just look at what has happened since he took over and think that’s the hard work done.

“It’s certainly not, it should just be the start - we can’t rely on anything or anyone else except ourselves.

“We’re still in the bottom four, results won’t just come because of what we’ve done in the past three or four weeks. We never look further than the next fixture and we’re not going to start now.”

Weston isn’t sure if Yeovil’s 3-0 defeat at Harrogate Town in midweek - a loss the Glovers boss Darren Sarll called not good enough - will work for them, or against them on Saturday.

The midfielder, who became the youngest player ever to appear in an FA Cup final in 2004 for Millwall against Manchester United aged 17 years and 119 days, knows the quality the promotion chasers have.

“I’ve been in and around the league long enough to know things change very quickly,” he said.

“You can never put your house on a certain result - it’s how you prepare yourself and what happens on the day. This is football, and it’s a league which throws up surprises every week.

“We haven’t been thinking about how many wins we need to stay up. You have a fair idea, but you can’t look that far ahead.

“But if we match what we’ve done in the past five games then we’ll be more than alright. That’s what we need to do and if we can end this season strongly, we can use that to push on next season maybe.

“But first things first and that’s this weekend - it’s another big game for us and we need to be right at it.”