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Makes this season feel even worse.

The date 08/05/04 is nostagically etched in my mind as the happiest I've had as a Torquay fan. Only in the context of the attractive football served up over that and the previous season can the 500+ mile journey of 2000+ Torquay fans on that day be justified.

Without reliving all of the day's events, it was truly surreal seeing us secure automatic promotion for the first time in forty odd years on an afternoon when the Yellow Army in Southend's Universal Cycle Stand was also treated to the experience of a Cheeky Girls' performance and Arjan van Heusden in his pants!

Leroy has his detractors for what came after that success, and the quality of unused subs Canoville and Fowler on the final day show he was blessed with talent in his playing squad. To this day, though, I thank him and his team for that season, and for his post-match words: 'Torquay United might be a small club, but we're a club with a big heart.'