Destiny Day duly arrived and Kings travelled to Salisbury’s well-appointed stadium, still uncertain if a win would be enough to mean Premier survival. Chris Cummins had named an unchanged team and they started as they had to, tearing into their hosts from the first whistle. The pace of wingers Alie Bangura and Ben De LacyTurner was troubling the Whites from the outset and their willingness to cover back as soon as play switched, further frustrated a side short on confidence.

The combination was to bear fruit when DLT sent a superb diagonal cross field pass over to Bangura and his first time pass to Alfie Williams allowed the midfielder to drill home his third goal in successive matches. Salisbury reacted and Abdul Baggie scuffed his shot as the defence dithered and Alfie Marriott saved with his feet soon after, but Kings grew in stature as the half went on and could have gone further ahead when a Jamie Jellis break saw him choose to shoot instead of the pass to Bradley Wadkins and an Alfie Williams free kick was just over, while a defensive error let the striker in on goal, but his lob was over the bar as well as the keeper. Equally, the slender lead was only preserved by a saving tackle from Alex Lafleur as half time approached.

It followed a similar pattern after the break, a Lafleur run and shot tipped round the post by Pat O’Flaherty, who then did enough in a one-on-one with Wadkins to force the striker to put his finish just past the post. He was in action again to push a Jamie Jellis shot to safety and the feeling grew that Kings would rue not taking these chances. And so it was to prove, as the 73rd minute saw a flamboyant referee not only award a penalty for a challenge by Aryan Tajbakhsh, but brandish a red card as well. Kings world looked to have fallen apart, as Charlie Davis stepped up to the spot and the travelling fans held their collective breath. The kick was a good one, hit with force, but Alfie Marriott guessed correctly, flung himself to his left and finger tipped the ball round the post. It was a lifeline, but Kings still had to survive nearly twenty minutes of increasingly desperate bombardment from the eleven men. Jorell Johnson and Sam Dreyer were magnificent in the heart of defence, ably backed by Alex Lafleur and Ryan Case and while there was some heart-stopping moments, there was a confidence about Langley that said “we’ve come this far, they shall not pass”.

As the minutes ticked away and other results showed that a win would be enough, there was to be a twist in the tale, as Alfie Williams refused to hoof the ball upfield from a beleaguered defence in stoppage time, while the recipient of his measured pass, Erin Amu, refused to take it to the corner flag, but instead ran the length of a near deserted half to slot the ball past O’Flaherty and signify that Kings had, after all, done the seemingly impossible and completed the Great Escape by a single point.