When the anti-penalty shoot-out brigade start calling for games that finish level after extra-time to be settled by he side that scores a 'golden-goal', don't mention that to Arthur Burrows.
Arthur was in the County team that played Doncaster Rovers on March 30 1946, a game that created a record which, in all probability, will never be beaten.
Arthur said: "I joined County straight from school after Bill Bardsley, who ran the reserve team, spotted me playing football. I turned professional a couple of years later on the day Bobby Marshall became team manager. My contract was on a part-time basis because I had a secure job as a pattern maker outside football."
World War II sadly cut short Arthur's career but he fondly remembers playing with County legends such as Len Jones, Alf Lythgoe, Tiger Bowles and Billy Bocking.
"Bocking was one of the hardest players in the game," recalled Arthur. "But off the field he was one of the nicest blokes you cold wish to meet."
The famous game against Rovers was a Division Three (North) Cup replay - the first game had ended 2-2 at Belle Vue.
County started brightly and after Les Cocker was brought down in the box Ken Shaw stepped up to score from the spot with just 5 minutes on the clock.
Two goals in a minute, through Maddison and Todd, midway through the half stunned the Edgeley faithful and Rovers went in for their half-time cups of tea 2-1 up.
After the interval County piled on the pressure and they forced extra-time when Shaw equalised, with his second goal of the game, on 72 minutes.
As no further goals were added in the extra 30 minutes the golden-goal rule kicked-in. The teams had to play on until somebody scored.
Many an old-timer tells the tale that fans at the game went home for their tea and then came back to watch some more of the game.
"That's perfectly true," said Arthur. "A pal of mine went to my house in Vernon Park to tell my wife that I was still playing. He then came back to watch the rest of the match!"
After 173 minutes Cocker scored. Fans invaded the pitch in triumph but their joy was short lived. Mr Baker, the match referee from Crewe, had spotted an offence and gave Rovers a free kick.
"We'd all crowded round Les to congratulate him for scoring," Burrows added. "And I remember being so disappointed when the goal was disallowed."
It wasn't just the County players that were disappointed. Three of the Donny team, Swallow, Marriott and Jordan, had worked the previous night and it was reported that even they were upset that the game had to continue!
Two minutes after this incident Baker collapsed with cramp. Unfortunately for both sets of players, though, the Stockport trainer managed to get the ref back on his feet and the game went on. And on. And on.
By now the crowd, and there were almost 13,000 on the 'Park, were getting restless. However, help was at hand due to the proximity of the old engine sheds behind the Railway End terrace at Edgeley Park.
With darkness approaching - it was now almost 7pm and floodlights would not be installed at EP for another 10 years - the hazy smoke from the steam engines congregating in the sidings after their day's work left the referee with little alternative, after 203 minutes, but to abandon the game.
"We were so relieved when that whistle went," added Burrows. "And I can still remember how sore my feet were. In fact most of the players took their boots off before they left the pitch!"
All the hard work put in by Arthur and his teammates in the end counted for nothing, as they were beaten 4-0 in the replay the following Wednesday afternoon!
Edgeley's 'longest-day' did however earn Arthur and the other ten valiant County players a place in the Guinness Book of Records, which, unless the football authorities have a drastic re-thing of current legislation, will last for all time.
The County team on that incredible day back in 1946 read: Bowles; Gleave, Buckley, Burrows, Morris, Weaver, Woodcock, Cocker, Richards, Brown, Shaw.
