{"title":"Chesterfield FC","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"putting-on-a-show-inside-chesterfields-remarkable-2023-24-promotion-season","title":"'Putting on a Show': Inside Chesterfield's remarkable 2023\/24 promotion season","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the publisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-content single-post-content bottom-post-content gray-text product-with-bullets page-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-content single-post-content bottom-post-content gray-text product-with-bullets page-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-content single-post-content bottom-post-content gray-text product-with-bullets page-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-content single-post-content bottom-post-content gray-text product-with-bullets page-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"post-content single-post-content bottom-post-content gray-text product-with-bullets page-section\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePutting on a Show is the story of Chesterfield FC's remarkable 2023\/24 promotion season. Written by the Derbyshire Times' Spireites writer Liam Norcliffe, this is a detailed account of Chesterfield's record-breaking return to the EFL after six seasons in non-league which saw them almost relegated to regional football and close to going bust. Featuring interviews with players, coaching staff and other key behind-the-scenes personnel, the story also covers Paul Cook's sensational return to the club, how he rebuilt the squad and how the Spireites recovered from losing the previous season's play-off final on penalties to break records galore and storm to the title - all while playing some of the best football the fifth tier has ever seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiam Norcliffe is the Spireites reporter for the Derbyshire Times newspaper in Chesterfield. Liam has been a journalist since 2014, starting as a trainee news reporter at the Worksop Guardian before qualifying as a senior journalist at the Derbyshire Times. He has been covering the Spireites since 2019 and has followed them up and down the country. His time reporting on the club so far has included a takeover, a pandemic, relegation battles and promotion near-misses, seeing numerous players and managers come and go before covering the Spireites' record-breaking title win in 2023\/24. 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The fans had a vision to embed the club in the local community for the good of everyone in the town. With encouragement from the local council, they ran the club on a knife-edge for several years, then sold it to a trustworthy new owner, who financed a new era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter many ups and downs, relegation from the Football League came for the first time in Chesterfield’s history. The club was sold to a community trust created by fans, which once again saved the Spireites from going under, and four years later they were back in the Football League. 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