That's top goalscorer Alex Hardwick, and the playoff excitement is spreading across the city.

I was out on a run in Wickersley, and you know you have the private football schools, you know, that are going on, and there's a kid in a Sheffield FC t-shirt.

His mum stopped me, and I had a picture with him, and I'm like, what is this? It was such a crazy feeling, being there, and I was just on a run in my village.

Someone noticed me and wanted a picture, and I was like, that is incredible.

That type of experience you don't get anywhere else.

To be the top goalscorer of the world's oldest football team, every time you put the shirt on, you feel proud to be what was the pioneer to football.

Was engineering always going to be something you were into at school? Or when

did you think, ah, that could be a sort of career path for me? So ever since I was younger, I've always loved like bikes and like cars, anything and how they work.

So I grew up on bikes and then as soon as I was 17, I'd started building cars and enjoying how they work and looking how I can improve and make them faster and just better like that.

And I always thought, you know, maybe if I can have a job in something which I have this similar interest in, then maybe, you know, it'll help and I'll enjoy it and I can thrive in it.

Do you ever talk about that in the changing

room? Do you ever have those conversations? I help my friends fix the cars and problems that they have, yeah.

I know William Portman, he always has issues with his car, so I'm always helping him.

And, you know, if I've got issues, then I can help him wherever, especially with stuff like that.

And there's so much for Jeremy Levine, the owner, and Rob Hand, the CEO, to get their teeth

stuck into.

And it couldn't be more different, could it? Because you know John McClure.

You've met him.

I mean, this is a charismatic local fella.

He has a presence.

And he is there in South Yorkshire versus, you know, untold billions, millions.

But it's the point of reference for the last few years for takeovers with that extra celebrity sparkle, shall we say, to it that adds that element

And in non-league football, you're only ever one moment away from the next problem.

The only thing I am a bit worried about tonight is the diesel in the generator.

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This story's going to sound slightly incredible.

How on earth has this come around? It's very exciting me.

So this isn't millions, this is hundreds of billions.

For far too long now, this city has not shouted about itself.

It would be a once-in-a-generation investment.

So from our point of view, we're where we kind of expected to be, which is in the mix, knocking on the door,

The players that we've got in the team, we are good enough to push up and we should be fighting for the first.

Sheffield's number nine is Alex Hardwick.

Like what Ville says, it's 16 new players all coming together at the start of this year.

But like everyone else at this level of football, the star striker is only part-time.

It is like a second job playing football at this level.

You know, we train Tuesday, Thursday.

Saturdays, you know, are all gone.

And then to try and balance, like, a degree as well as working nine to five, it can be a lot.

It is a lot.

The actual crazy thing is I didn't actually start playing football until COVID.