PROUD chairman Toby Macormac summed up Warrington Town’s major FA Cup upset as a night that will live long in the memory.

Somehow, while stood next to a changing room bouncing in celebration and adjacent to a pitch full of spectators still roaring with appreciation, Macormac managed to hold his emotions together.

“Everyone associated with the club – players, directors, fans, everyone that’s supported us – we’ve written ourselves into FA Cup giant-killing history along with the Sutton Uniteds of this world,” he said.

“It’ll live long in the memory and when any form of Match of the Day or any kind of FA Cup coverage is played on TV I’m sure that Craig Robinson’s goal will be included in the highlights at the start.

“It’s a history-making event and I’m just so happy that everyone present played a part in it.”

Macormac has put hours and hours – a labour of love – into the club since taking the reins, including a huge chunk in the planning and preparations for Friday night’s game to go ahead.

It was an event of the magnitude nobody at Town had experienced before.

It was the kind of night Macormac had imagined when he bought into the vision of Town’s dream of Football League status.

“I could see that this is where we were going to go but maybe not as quickly as it has,” he said.

“We work as hard off the field as we do on it and the support we get from local businesses and sponsors is fantastic.”

Town’s profile has shot through the roof as if a switch had been pressed, not only dominating local media coverage but national and regional television and radio networks too in the build up to Friday’s cup triumph and since.

“The exposure from the FA Cup run can not be bought anywhere,” said Macormac, general manager at Eddie Stobart.

“You could see from the support and the pitch invasion at the end that it’s nights like Friday that you can’t buy.

“We’ve had people who have come up to me and actually said they didn’t even know the club was here.

“Some people can be upset by that, but I think it’s fantastic for people to say they’ve never been before and that the first time they’ve been they’ve enjoyed a game like that.

“I think it’s great for everyone.”

Macormac, a former secretary of Moore United in the Warrington and District Football League, was impressed with the way the team stuck together to grind out the result.

They fought off attack after attack as Exeter piled on the pressure with every passing minute in the second half.

“They really dug a performance out,” he said.

“To score after seven minutes against a Football League club and then dig it out for the remaining 83 minutes is a fantastic achievement.

“Afterwards, they were being carried around the pitch on spectators’ shoulders and it’s something they may never do in their careers again.

“And to experience it in the first round proper, an FA Cup match televised live, it’s great for them.”