I agree with 90% of your post,Dipdodah. I do think we were guilty of "cheating" our way into the FL. If you cook the books to enable you to offer bigger wages to better players, then any promotion is the outcome of false accounting.
As for the then chairman of the National league, he was caught with his trousers round his ankles. He was shown up in public for the useless, well-connected individual her was. This made him more than keen to damage our club, which he did with that vindictive demotion to the NPL.
Anyway, like you, I am a long-term supporter and have hired a motor for the Alfreton game next Saturday.