On Friday evening, seventeen year old BJ Banda painted his name in lights as he glanced home the winner to send Finn Harps to the Premier Division at the expense of Limerick FC.
In England, of course, they don't bother with a promotion/relegation playoff match, preferring the four-team playoff so beloved of the Championship's sixth placed team and not so beloved of the Championship's third placed team.
However, English football did produce a couple of epic playoffs between sides in different divisions.
It was deep in the dark 1980s, when English clubs were banned from the continent, Saint & Greavsie filled the airwaves and football stadiums retained a rickety charm, as opposed to the samey, all seater bowls that house the bulk of middling Premier League clubs these days.
In 1986-87, they introduced the playoffs. As they had decided to reduce the First Division to twenty teams, they had to relegate an extra side. Therefore, for the first two seasons, they decreed that the side who had finished just above the relegation zone would enter the playoffs along with the three Second Division teams who had finished outside the automatic promotion spots.
Then, as now, Leeds United were outside the top flight and desperate to get back in. They were managed by club legend Billy Bremner, appointed after the club's slide in the Second Division in 1985.
The team boasted one future legend in their ranks in the shape of Denis Irwin, although they scarcely appreciated it the time. So forgettable was Irwin's time at Leeds, that the Elland Road supporters failed even to give him dogs abuse when returned with Manchester United.
Leeds beat Irwin's future club Oldham in the playoff semi-final, an outcome which riled Joe Royle no end considering Oldham had finished two spots ahead of Leeds in the regular season.
Then came the epic playoff battle with the doughty Charlton Athletic, trying desperately to keep their head above water in their first season in the top flight.
Charlton beat Leeds 1-0 in the Valley through a late goal from Jim Melrose but Leeds won by the same scoreline in Elland Road two days later. Penalties weren't deemed an appropriate way to settle this. A replay was fixed for the neutral venue of St. Andrew's in Birmingham. The game finished 0-0 after 90 minutes, but the extra-time period produced three.
Future Ireland star, John Sheridan curled in a free-kick for Leeds to put them in front but two second half strikes from centre-half Peter Shirtliff gave Charlton an unforgettable victory. Watch the drama below.
Little did Leeds know their saviour would arrive in the year's time.
1987-88 would be the site of the last promotion/relegation tie in English football. This time around, the Second Division's third placed team, Middlesbrough, faced the the First Division strugglers, Chelsea, in the do or die playoff final.
Chelsea, under the management of Bobby Campbell, who had only taken over from the sacked John Hollins late in the season, finished one spot clear of the automatic relegation zone and so were condemned to the four-way crap shoot with the three promotion chasers. After hockeying Blackburn Rovers 6-1 across two legs, they faced Middlesbrough in the two legged final.
A disastrous 2-0 defeat in Ayresome Park left them in a hole they couldn't clamber out of. On a sunny day in Stamford Bridge, Nevin and co beat Middlesbrough 1-0 but it wasn't enough. Bernie Slaven's boys were going up and Chelsea became the only team to go down in this fashion in English football history.
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