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This will make you feel good

Peterborough v Wrexham (FA Cup 4th Round 1996-7)

If you're feeling a bit down this winter, just buy this video. It will make you cheer up instantly.

It's an epic in the Titanic mould. There's Rooster Russell as the Heroic Lead Man - a kind of lower-leagues Leonardo Di Caprio - and Yozzer Hughes as the Young Pretender (soon to be poached by Mr Francis); there's even Ian Walsh as the Prophet of Doom in the commentary box (Wrexham are 4-2 up with five minutes to go and Walsh says "There's still a long way to go". Thanks Ian!)

It's definitely a feel-good video: Marriott in fine fettle and looking as if he's actually enjoying being in Wrexham colours; Watkin looking sharp and dangerous; and Bryan Hughes looking alert and dangerous, like he always did. Yes, it's Titanic meets The Good Old Days and Wrexham win 4-2 away from home. Can't be bad.

The video is wrapped around the photocopied front cover of the Peterborough matchday programme ("Posh News") and once in the machine it's full of pleasant memories: that white-and-black away kit that did the Reds so proud on their Cup travels in season 1996-7; the Joey Jones-Barry Fry touchline banter (two archetypal football characters); and the 15-minute delay to kick-off that really proved what a big match it really was (when was the last time, before this, that a Wrexham kick-off was delayed? Answers on a postcard please to Red Passion.)

The goals were also excellent: Charlery's sweet finish, Ward's bullet header and Russell's two crackers. Great memories and, apart from the odd technical hitch and an anti-climactic ending (why weren't there any emotive post-match interviews?), a reasonably produced video.

Peter Davies