Nigel Adkins insists Scunthorpe United came "within an inch" of turning failure into the "greatest season in the club's history".Adkins' side survived just one season in the Championship after promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in 43 years, but their points tally would have been enough to keep them up in previous years.

Adkins said: "Standing on 45 points with a game to go would have kept us up last season.

"That's how close we have come from turning what will be classed as a disappointing season into what would have been the greatest season in the club's history - 'It's a game of inches', as Al Pacino says in the film Any Given Sunday.

"To take four points from Charlton, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United, Coventry, Cardiff and six from Preston were monumental achievements for this club and this group of players."

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