When Cambridge United returned to the Football League following their Conference play-off final win on Sunday, it sparked happy memories for Brentford fans.
For it was 15 years ago this year that the Bees lifted the Division Three title with a dramatic last day win at the Abbey Stadium.
The Bees had gone toe to toe with Cambridge and Cardiff all season for top spot, and the week before the Cambridge game, Ron Noades' side had clinched promotion with a 3-0 home hammering of Exeter City.
A midweek 4-1 trouncing of Swansea City set up a winner-takes-all clash at Cambridge for the season's finale, with leaders Brentford knowing a draw would be enough to take the title back to west London, while the hosts had to win to snatch it away.
In the event, Lloyd Owusu scored the only goal of the game just after the hour mark to send the travelling Bees into raptures, while at the other end, the Brentford back four of Darren Powell, Herman Hreidarsson, Danny Boxall and Ijah Anderson kept quiet the feared Cambridge triple strike force of Martin Butler, Trevor Benjamin and John Taylor.
It meant an instant return to the third tier for the Bees, who had been relegated into the fourth tier for the first time in two decades only a year earlier under Micky Adams.
Noades stayed at the helm for another two years before quitting as both manager and chairman, his spending spree which transpired to been funded by loans rather from his own pocket leaving the Bees in a financial mess from which they only recovered with the arrival of Matthew Benham, following some sterling work by supporters' trust Bees United.
But on that glorious spring day in Cambridge in 1999, partying was the only thing of the minds of Bees fans.
It was a superb late run of form which made them favourites to lift the title, with a 2-1 loss at Swansea in mid February being the Bees' last defeat of the season, followed by a run of 10 wins and six draws.
Strangely enough, their best winning sequence that season was followed by their worst losing sequence. Between mid-August and early September, they won five games on the spin, with a 3-0 League Cup trouncing of West Brom followed by league wins over Brighton (2-0), Barnet (3-0), Rochdale (2-1) and Hull (3-2).
However, there followed five defeats in a row, with two-legged League Cup losses to Spurs (both 2-3) sandwiched by league defeats to Torquay (1-3), Rotherham (0-3) and Scarborough (1-3).
And what of some of the contrasting fortunes experienced by other teams they faced in the league that season? Three (Hull, Swansea and Cardiff) are now in the Premier League, while four (Darlington, Scarborough, Chester and Halifax) all went out of business before reforming as new clubs.
