There are no words to describe this one, but we'll try.
Wrexham won one of the most absolutely mad matches in Boxing Day's storied English football history on Friday, a start-to-finish sprint of a marathon against Sheffield United that no one will forget anytime soon.
The final score was Wrexham 5, Sheffield United 3, and even that eight-goal total doesn't begin to tell the story.
The match began in earnest just even minutes in when Patrick Bamford scored the goal of the season for Sheffield United. Cutting across the box, Bamford somehow hit a left-footed, backhand (backfoot?) Flick from 15 yards out into the far corner of the goal.
Wrexham equalized within two minutes on an own goal.
But then Bamford scored again six minutes later, and Callum O'Hare made it 3-1 Sheffield United after 24 minutes.
The lanky striker Kieffer Moore netted to cut the deficit in half four minutes after that. Yep, five goals in the first 28 minutes.
Somehow, the match waited until the 52nd minute for its next tally, Ryan Longman to knot it 3-3.
And then in the 76th minute, it was Moore with a smooth finish in the box with his right foot for 4-3.
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Five minutes later, Wrexham earned a penalty, and Josh Windass scored it, and from 3-1 down, it was 5-3 Wrexham.
The fans at the Racecourse had seen a poor run of recent home form. But on this night, their post-Christmas outing shifted from potential disaster to absolute elation.
It surely was a tough trip home for the fans from Sheffield who had traveled to Wales hoping to enjoy the holiday and instead had their hearts ripped out, even being forced to watch a high-velocity volley in stoppage time bound off the crossbar and down, not in.
These teams had both begun the side mid-table in the Championship, the second-tier of English football. Wrexham are a headline-grabbing name thanks to their Hollywood owners and their recent string of promotions to within one rung of the Premier League.
It doesn't appear likely that Wrexham grabs a promotion spot this season, but a result like this will propel them toward the new year with quite the momentum.
And sometimes, this sport isn't about the big picture.
It's about the cold winter night on Boxing Day when a game changes from defeat to victory in scintillating fashion, one the scriptwriters could hardly even produce. Who needs Hollywood when we've got sports? This match was as brilliant an evidence of that as any.
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