Irish striker Eoin Doyle is set to seal the third League 2 title of his career after a scintillating season in front of goal, but the celebrations have been very different as he awaits a final decision.
News emerged on Friday that the fourth tier in England is set to be completed using a weighted points per game system, which would mean Swindon would be crowned champions.
Before Friday, Swindon were in the second place, but with a game in hand they have moved marginally ahead of Crewe Alexandra.
The decision has to be ratified but it means Swindon will take the title.
Talks about the future of League 1 will now decide if Town are promoted, with the prospect of ups and downs in the English tiers potentially being suspended.
Doyle said: "I believe it is more or less done. All the clubs voted on it together and as far I know it's just a matter of the EFL and the FA signing it off to make sure it goes ahead.
"When you look at the points per game, I think we win it by a fraction of a point which is a bit weird. But if you look overall and at our run-in – which would have been the more favourable compared to teams around us. So I think we will be deserving winners.
"When the news broke, I was colouring in with my children at the kitchen table. I couldn’t celebrate.
"Usually it would be champagne being sprayed around the place.
"It was a bit strange and unique, but it’s a unique time. I had a few drinks in the house on Saturday night and we had a few Zoom calls but that was it. It’s a strange situation. As things go it’s a positive for us."
Doyle started the season at his own club – Bradford City - but they loaned out the striker when he was deemed surplus to requirements.
However, the Dubliner went on an incredible run, scoring 23 goals in 22 games for Swindon in the first half of the League Two season.
It led to Bradford recalling their player in January, but later in the window he returned to the Robins, having made his thoughts very clear on where he wanted his future to be.
The former Sligo Rovers man went on to score 25 goals in total with Swindon and will collect a third league medal when the vote by the clubs is ratified.
Getting to that point took a lot of talking.
"It was coming a long time. There were meetings that people wouldn’t have known about. I would have met (Bradford manager) Gary Bowyer coming into November and December when I was at Swindon.
"He would say the club is calling me back and I was saying 'I don’t want to play for you, you let me go for the season and my contract is up at the end of the season’.
"I just didn’t want to go back and felt there was no point. If he said a colour was blue, I’d say the colour was green. That is how the conversation went for about six weeks. It was constant arguments and me not wanting to go back.
"Eventually I went to the media and said publicly I wanted to be a Swindon player until the end of the season and that I was hoping Bradford would stick to the arrangement and not call me back. It happened.
"It was a strange situation where a parent club would send a player out on loan to a team in the same division and they end up struggling for goals and the club they sent the player to was doing better than them.
"I had never seen anything like it in football. It was weird being part of it but I was glad in long-term I could get back and have success at Swindon.
"I had played for the manager at Swindon before so when he said he wanted to sign me back it was a no-brainer. I had scored a lot for him previously. It worked out to be a good season for me personally and to help the club get promotion is an extra bonus."
That remains to be seen and another one for the future is the fact Doyle is set to become a free agent, with his contract set to expire in the coming weeks.
A host of clubs are likely to be chasing his signature and time will tell if he gets another chance in League 1, or a tilt at another medal in the fourth tier.
Either way, the celebrations will likely be very different.
Eoin Doyle was speaking during the Sligo Rovers Virtual Match on Saturday
