38 min: Maynard’s foul on Haughton sets up a Fylde free-kick. Danny Rowe fancies this one, but hits the wall again, to jeers.
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36 min: That was a lengthy delay for Tunnicliffe, but he will be OK to play on, with Terry Butcher-style bandage.
34 min: Some running repairs on an injured Tunnicliffe, who took a whack to the head. In the stands, there is a glimpse of Ryan Giggs, who is yawning.
33 min: What a chance! Andy Bond steams through on to a sweet through ball but misses the target. Fylde having much the better of this.
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32 min: Nice run from Whitehead sets up a Salford attack but Fylde seem to have recovered their defensive composure. And they have picked things up in attack, too. They look the more likely next scorers at this point.
30 min: Neal forced to make a save at last as Croasdale, gets a chance to shoot. Corner to Fylde is taken short and Rowe again whacks the ball into the crowd to the sound of jeering.
28 min: Jeers from the Salford contingent as Danny Rowe whacks the ball into the Wembley stands.
27 min: Bradley tries a long one, coming out of midfield to shoot. It sails wide, with Salford keeper Neal having it covered.
25 min: The ball drops to Piergianni, who swings and misses, and fires his shot over. Somehow that’s given as a corner. Pond climbs highest and heads wide, but it looks like a foul was being awarded.
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23 min: Gary Neville still has his arms folded, and best mate Becks is being ignored. This one means a lot.
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21 min: Fylde’s Rowe tries a long shot, but can’t get much power on it. The spark of the early moments seems to have gone.
18 min: Fylde set to make a sub, and it looks like Burke, who got an early injury and was among those slack for the goal, cannot carry on.
16 min: That was poor defending from Fylde and smart finishing from Dieseruvwe. Salford offered a route into the EFL thanks to a series of mistakes. Fylde boss Dave Challinor looks aghast.
Goal! Fylde 0-1 Salford (Dieseruvwe, 15)
Redmond’s ball in, Danny Rowe fails to deal with the danger and Dieseruvwe converts from close range. It was a gift and he snaffled it up.
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13 min: Salford fans making themselves heard now. I suspect a bit of TV amplification, but they are getting behind their teams. Up in the stands, Gary Neville is trying to look calm, but has his arms folded.
11 min: Geoff Wignall emails in: “Err, I think a drive along the West Lancs coast would also include Morecambe, John. Fylde aiming to make it a quintet.”
Yes, my mistake. A hotbed of football.
10 min: Yellow card for Salford’s Nathan Pond for a high tackle and Fylde have a free-kick. Danny Rowe can only hit the wall.
8 min: Burke limps on, and it looks like he might be OK. Up in the crowd, Brooklyn, Cruz and Romeo are looking on. For Salford, Wiseman fires wide…that was close.
6 min: Luke Burke has what looks like a hamstring injury. That could be the end of a player who had looked so dangerous in the early stages. He did it just kicking the ball out and when unchallenged.
5 min: Reid almost got on the end of some fine work from Luke Burke. Fylde look dangerous from the start.
3 min: The size of the crowd, which our spy estimates is less than 5,000, means we can hear the players speak, even if one set of fans are making a bit of a racket and singing the “Allez Allez Allez”. What with Salford’s leanings, would bet those are the Fylde lot.
Salford are without Adam Rooney, who hoiked his groin taking – and missing a penalty – against Eastleigh, and the Scot is replaced by Macclesfield Town legend Danny Whitehead.
The National Anthem rings out, and the band can be heard. Chris Casper, one of the Class of 92 who never quite made it, is in the execs with his old mates. He is sporting director at Salford, the type of role GN wants Big Red at Old Trafford to have.
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Just to say that David Beckham is at Wembley, presumably dropped off by Victoria with the Metropolitan Line down today. Him, Gary Neville, Pippin Neville and Nicky Butt have been doing the media rounds and are swelling a crowd that doesn’t look too large.
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Preamble
Want to feel old? Think back to the days when the Neville Brothers were Fergie’s teacher’s pet and Nicky Butt was a tousle-haired tyro in the midfield, while Ryan Giggs was the new George Best, Paul Scholes never said anything at all while David Beckham didn’t even own a mobile phone to talk on while driving. Doesn’t seem too long ago, does it?
Now those lads, those Fledglings, are middle-aged businessmen with their eyes on the prize of delivering a previous non-League club to the Football League for the first time in its history. They were put through the mill last week by Eastleigh in a rather entertaining penalty shoot-out, now for Fylde.
David Haythornwaite, the owner of Fylde, is just as ambitious as the Class of 92, and hopes to make his club the fourth in a quartet of West Lancs EFL entities, to follow Preston, Fleetwood and Blackpool.
Wembley is the venue, and Gary Neville is sure to be very nervous indeed.
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