Rochdale return to Football League in shootout after Boreham Wood thriller

• Boreham Wood 2-2 Rochdale (Rochdale win 3-1 on pens)

• Rush 22, Abdulmalik 69; Smith 78, Dieseruvwe 90+6

Supporting Rochdale should come with a health warning. For all that football has a wonderful propensity for drama, few clubs have ever packed in the heart-stopping tribulations of their past fortnight. But, after it all, they are a Football League club again. And that is all that matters.

Hopes of returning to the ranks of the country’s top 92 clubs looked to have disintegrated as mere seconds remained for Boreham Wood to cling on for victory in this National League playoff final. Then came Mani Dieseruvwe’s extraordinary 96th-minute equaliser to send the match into extra time that preceded penalties.