King’s Lynn Town manager Tommy Widdrington wants The Walks rocking as his side play host to the biggest game of the National League North season tonight.
The Linnets go head-to-head with league leaders AFC Fylde in what has become a two-horse race between the two clubs for the league title in recent weeks.
It promises to be an edge-of-the-seat occasion as Lynn look to enhance their automatic promotion hopes at the expense of the Coasters, who currently top the league standings by two points with two games in hand.
“I hope the place is rocking,” admitted the Lynn boss.
“I know there was a lot of youngsters in today for the academy day but I hope a lot of people come back on Tuesday because it’s the biggest game so far in this league this season.
“The top two teams are at it, I believe. I think we’re both at the top of the division. We both have the same thing in mind. We want to do the same thing. So I expect it to be a good game.
“It’s a fantastic spectacle for this level of football and I hope there’s double the amount of people we had here today in on Tuesday.
“This is our patch, they are coming into our backyard and we want to show them what we’re all about.
“I told the players there’s no cup finals between now and the end of the season. There’s no games where you can get more than three points. We just move on and play the next nine games.”
Despite what’s at stake, Widdrington insists that he does not regard the clash between the two sides as bigger than any other game.
“I don’t really look at it as any bigger, it’s just another opposition and we think we know how they will try to play and we will pick a team accordingly,” he said.
“I can understand why it’s being talked about because of where we both are in the league. Both teams have had really good league seasons.
“We’ve also had an FA Cup run, which has possibly hindered us a bit because of the fact that we’ve had to play eight Tuesdays in a row, but we’ve just got to get on with it.
“Nobody would give up the Doncaster game or the Stevenage game to have played a couple of less games in the last eight weeks.”
Lynn’s boss isn’t the slightest bit bothered about Fylde’s recent recruitment drive which has seen the recent loan signings of strikers Nathan Delfouneso and Bartosz Cybulski.
Delfouneso, once tipped as a future England star while a youngster at Aston Villa, joined Accrington Stanley on a short term contract last September but departed the club in January having made seven appearances, all bar one from the bench.
Cybulski has arrived from Derby County for the rest of the season and has experience of National League football having made 11 appearances (two starts) for Solihull Moors this season, scoring three times.
“It’s none of our business, it’s theirs.
“It’s not my players’ jobs or my job to worry, think or try to reason as to why they’ve gone and done what they’ve done, that’s their job and I hope it works out for them.”
