Even by the usual heightened level of excitement, there’s a real buzz about the coming weekend.

A remarkable double-header will see Wrexham’s men’s team look to take another step towards the title as they entertain York City in front of a capacity crowd, before clearing the stage for the magnificent women’s team to take a deserved bow.

They’ve already clinched the title but their final league game of the season gives them a chance to become the first Wrexham team in the club’s history to end a season with a 100 per cent record.

Fittingly, their opponents are Connah’s Quay Nomads, who have pushed them all the way. They are not only fierce rivals, but the sort of stubborn side which would relish being party-poopers.

The stage is set for a memorable pair of games!

The excitement around the women’s match is palpable.

My wife, usually a soccer-sceptic, even bought 20 tickets and is taking a selection of friends and their children along to enjoy the experience.

They’ve got seats suspiciously close to the owners’ box in case either of them make an appearance, which is alarming as she has made it perfectly plain that she’d leave me at the first sign that Rob McElhenney was interested.

The fact that a week before the game we were able to announce that the game will be played in front of the biggest crowd in the history of Welsh women’s football makes the anticipation even greater, although for me there is a more impressive statistic lying behind that.

Not only is it a record for a women’s game, it’s also the biggest crowd for any league game organised by the Football Association of Wales.

Stop and think about that for a moment.

That means the game will attract a bigger attendance than any game in the League of Wales’ history!

This deserves celebration as it’s not just a wonderful achievement, and a sign of the potential we have going forward. It’s also a sign that we can be a genuine force for change in the women’s game in Wales, raising its profile and making the competition more high profile than the men’s version.

How many countries can honestly say that their women’s league is more important than the men’s? I don’t mean to denigrate the League of Wales at all, but it’s quite something to contemplate.

If such a thing is achieved, it shows how we should never accept the inevitable and stop being ambitious. This is an incredible possibility, and Rob and Ryan deserve massive credit for allowing us to dream big.

Remember, of course, that the match, though massive, is merely a precursor to the real business. We might have won the Adran North, but that doesn’t mean we’re promoted.

In a frustrating echo of the farcical bottle-neck at the top of the National League, we now have to face the winners of the Adran South, which is likely to be Briton Ferry, in a play-off to decide who fills the sole promotion slot.

They certainly won’t be pushovers, as they’ve reached the final of the FAW Women’s Cup Final. We may be looking at exactly the same situation as the men’s team, where we deserve to go up, but so do our closest rivals.

That can’t happen for the women’s team, though, so enjoy Sunday but be ready to show your support when things get really massive.

Back to Saturday and York City are ancient rivals of the men’s team, having first faced us in a goalless draw in 1929.

We have a good record at home to them, having won 30 and lost nine of 56 encounters.

They last visited The Racecourse in August 2016, when a John Rooney penalty gave us an early lead which was cancelled out by one of our favourite pantomime villains of the National League years, Richard Brodie.

However, a strike from Sean Newton (pictured right) halfway through the second half secured victory.

The previous time they came to North Wales, in October 2011, The Minstermen also suffered a 2-1 defeat.

This time we were playing in the FA Cup, and the decisive strike was an own goal after Nat Knight-Percival’s opener had been cancelled out.

Five weeks earlier York had stunned The Racecourse with an impressive 3-0 win at the start of a season which ended in promotion to the Football League.

Our biggest winning margin against York is 4-0, a scoreline we have managed twice. In October 1960, we overwhelmed The Minstermen in the first half hour, by which time Arfon Griffiths, Ron Roberts and Wyn Davies had all scored. Mickey Metcalf rounded off the scoring in the second half.

The second occasion we enjoyed a 4-0 victory in this fixture was nine years later, and Griffiths was still in our starting line-up.

However, it was Albert Kinsey who took centre-stage on this occasion, hitting a hat trick, with Ray Smith scoring too.

That remains the only hat trick scored by a Wrexham player against York, and Kinsey’s seven goals mean he’s equal top scorer in this fixture, alongside Smith and Ron Hewitt.