The Grass Is Always Greener For Matt The Promotion King!

The online encyclopedia doesn’t get much wrong. Perhaps except from pranksters with too much time of their hands editing comical additions to celeb’s profile pages.

You wouldn’t expect anyone to strike something quite important from the record all together.

We wanted to quiz Matt Green about his double National League promotion, and how he hopes to make it a treble inside a decade.

It was a simple enough line we were fishing for. Only to find out he’s already done it.

“They’ve missed out my one with Torquay United!” the Ammies forward said as he gears up for Wednesday night’s live BT Sport fixture with Harrogate Town.

“In fairness, I was only on the bench at Wembley when we went up against Cambridge United. We had a really good side, Tim Sills and Chris Hargreaves were great in the play-off final. We enjoyed a really good season and deserved to go up.

“So I’m already on three. I went up into the League with Oxford United and Mansfield when we won the league back in 2013.

“I’m now looking for number four. If I get it hopefully someone can update my Wikipedia page. It’s funny as my wife has always said she thinks I’ve got more goals that they have me down for, maybe she was right after all!”

When Salford signed the 31-year-old in December, he knew he had a job on to make it a quadruple.

When he put pen to paper the club were in the middle of a four-game losing run and there appeared to be doubts about their ability to sustain a challenge.

But gradually they have chipped away and are back in sight of leaders Leyton Orient as the final month of the season approaches.

“Can we still win it? Yes, but it’s in Leyton Orient’s hands now,” the capture from Lincoln City accepts. “But the way the league has been going this season, you can’t rule out the teams at the top going through a bad spell, and any of the chasing pack putting a strong run together.

“There will be added spice of course on Wednesday because the two clubs were battling for the National League North title last year before Salford pulled away at the end.

“It’s a big game but we have done well against teams who are going for promotion.

“I actually forgot how difficult it can be at this level. Everyone team works so hard and the teams in the wrong half can do something against the teams at the top.

“We’ve seen that for ourselves this season. We’ve come unstuck against sides most people would expect us to beat but have also beaten Wrexham, Solihull and left Leyton Orient with a 3-0 win.”

Green added: “Salford is a unique sort of place. We’re a club on the up that has definitely gone against us sometimes.

“Maybe people judge us a little and games are raised. They think if they perform against us maybe they can get head-hunted.

“But it’s the same when sides play Orient and Wrexham. That’s the nature of life up the top and we’ve got to react to that.

‘We’ve got to pick up as many points between now and the end of the season and see where it takes us.”

PICTURES: CHARLOTTE TATTERSALL, ANDY NUNN & PA