1. The Gulls show professional as well as personal pride.
In his post-match interview, Torquay United manager Gary Johnson hailed the professionalism of his side - as they defeated play-off hopefuls Chesterfield. United went into the match as a mid-table team with nothing to play for, the Spireites needed a win to cement their position in the league's top seven. However, you could have quite easily have thought that it was the Gulls who were the team pushing for the play-offs and Chesterfield were the side with the close season on their minds.
Spireites keeper Scott Loach was by far the busier keeper than his United opposite number Shaun MacDonald, and the nearest that they came to scoring was through a free-kick from sub Danny Rowe that hit the upright in the 79th minute.
2. Duke-McKenna signs off on a high.
In the last game of his loan spell from Queens Park Rangers at Plainmoor, Stephen Duke-McKenna signed off by scoring his third goal for the club. The Guyanian international, who was playing as right wing-back cut onto his left foot before drilling home from 18-yards, after being teed up by Danny Wright. Like his fellow QPR loanee Sinclair Armstrong before him, the Plainmoor faithful have taken Duke-McKenna to their hearts and they will be certainly be following his future progress with interest.
3. Ali Omar stakes a claim in defence.
While United's young player of the year Joe Lewis has received much acclaim for his displays at the heart of the Gulls defence, his defensive partner Ali Omar has stepped up to the plate of late. After a bright display against Dagenham & Redbridge, Omar was voted as the sponsor's man of the match with another impressive display; highlights of his display included an important tackle to deny the Spireites Liam Mandeville on 21 minutes and he was unlucky not to get on the score sheet himself towards the end. Lewis also impressed alongside him as he helped to keep former Gulls' loanee Joe Quigley quiet.
4. 15 for Armani Little.
By converting his 81st minute penalty, Armani Little netted his 15th goal of the season. Little has overhauled the goalscoring return of last season's leading scorer Asa Hall who found the back of the net 14 times. There is a question mark over whether Little will remain at Plainmoor, along with a number of other United players including Connor Lemonheigh-Evans, Joe Lewis and Ben Wynter.
5. Shaun MacDonald wins player of the year.
After the game it was announced that goalkeeper Shaun MacDonald was voted as Torquay United's player of the year for the 2021-22 season. Winning the prize represents a remarkable turnaround for MacDonald who left Plainmoor in the summer of 2021, but he returned to the club in September 2021 and has been an ever present since making his second debut against Southend United on September 18, 2021. By winning the award, MacDonald becomes the first goalkeeper to win the award since Kevin Dearden in the 2001-02 campaign. Other goalkeepers to have won the award include Andy Donnelly, Mike Mahoney, John Turner, Kenny Allen, Kenny Veysey and Neville Southall - some of the very keepers ever to play for Torquay United.
6. Three of the class of 2009 in attendance.
As Gary Johnson sets about building a potential promotion winning side for the 2022-23 campaign, three of the last United side to lead the club back into the Football League were in attendance. Chris Hargreaves, the scorer of United's opening goal at Wembley against Cambridge United in the Blue Square Premier play-off final, was working as a pundit for BT Sport's live television coverage of the match; Tim Sills, who scored United's second on that occasion, was also making a return visit to Plainmoor and Chris Todd was also watching on in his capacity as the Gulls' Under-18's coach. They would all have surely been impressed by what they saw.
