The recipe for play off success is not to take the occasion too seriously
Mark Clemmit
Monday May 18 2015, 1.01am, The Times
 Bristol Rovers celebrated their return to the Football League with a 5-3 win on penalties over Grimsby Town at Wembley yesterday after the sides could not be separated inside 120 minutes
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The last time I saw Ian Holloway at Wembley Stadium, that is before he spent yesterday afternoon alongside me as his beloved Bristol Rovers won promotion back to the Football League, was an hour and a half after he had secured Crystal Palace's elevation to the Barclays Premier League in 2013.
Somehow I'd managed to blag my way into the Wembley hospitality area and was on the hunt for a glass of something white, preferably French or Italian, to help bid farewell to another football season.
Just when my cause was looking desperate and I'd had to resort to rummaging around empty tables to see if anybody had left anything decent in the ice bucket (not a drop on Elton John's — mind you he