Column: We should be talking about football, but once again off-field affairs take centre stage at Chesterfield

This column should be about that magnificent win over Salford.

It should be about Alex Kiwomya’s goals, Jonathan Smith’s tigerish pressing and Jerome Binnom-Williams’ physics-defying goalmouth clearance.

Martin Allen’s game-changing substitution, the emotional full-time scenes and that long overdue Proact atmosphere should be the talking points.

What about Levi Amantchi’s full debut and first Proact assist, at barely 18 years of age?

I should be writing about the signing of another young, hungry player, Alfie Beestin, whose 2019 contract expiry gives him so much to play for at the Proact.

We should be discussing what Saturday’s FA Trophy game means to Basford United, who truly received the plum tie of the round when they were drawn out of the hat with the Spireites.

Instead, here we are again, talking about off-field affairs.

How can we not?

On Saturday, while Allen is running his players through their warm-up and giving out final instructions inside the stadium, a number of the club’s supporters will be outside.

A group, whose number will not be known until 2.30pm on matchday, will be protesting the sad decline of their beloved football club.

What they hope to achieve is uncertain, no goal or target has been identified.

It seems highly unlikely, at best, that a gathering outside the Proact, or even chanting inside it, will bring about a change in the club’s hierarchy.

We are where we are until such a time as someone buys the club from Dave Allen.

The owner has continued to inject eye-watering sums to keep Chesterfield FC afloat - the club’s 2017/18 financial year end accounts show an injection of £1.3m.

There is, of course, no reason why supporters cannot be simultaneously fed up entirely with the situation the club finds itself in and grateful for Allen’s financial backing.