Spireites ace eyes place in folklore
JAMES BERRY says champions-elect Chesterfield don’t just want to win the National League title – they want to win big and write their names in club legend.
Berry scored the opener in Tuesday night’s 2-1 win at Dagenham & Redbridge that put Paul Cook’s side a staggering 22 points clear at the summit.
It means the scintillating Spireites are just seven wins from booking their return ticket to the EFL.
The midweek victory was also their seventh on the bounce and keeps them on pace to smash Wrexham’s record haul of 111 points, set just last season.
While it seems to be only a matter of time before they are maththerematically certain, are no premature tions taking place. celebrafoot off “We can’t take our the gas – we want to win it convincingly,” Berry told The NLP. “We’ve got the opportunity here to be remembered for a long time.
“From the backroom staff to the players, I keep reiterating, it’s really special what we’ve got going on here. We want to keep winning, keep getting those three points and keep striving for the league.
“We’ve not won anything yet and we’ve not won the league. The job is not ished so, 100 per cent, we keep fina lid on it because we want to keep getting three points, keep going, keep going and we’ll see where we are at the end of the year – hopefully we’re league champions but by a long shot.”
Berry is also hitting red-hot form of his own with Tuesday’s strike – slamming in a rebound after Dagenham keeper Elliot Justham had parried Ollie Banks’ swerving shot – the third game in a row he’s got on the scoresheet sheet and his fourth goal in five games.
The 23-year-old joined Chesterfield in August from NPL Premier Macclesfield, who he’d helped to back-to-back promotions from the North W
