Arbroath face a nervous 90 minutes on Saturday as automatic relegation from League 1 will be decided between the Gayfield side and second bottom East Fife.
The Fifers have a one-point advantage and a win for them at Ayr would see them safe.
Any other result for the Bayview side opens the door for Arbroath provided they beat Airdrie to secure a second chance via the play-offs.
For Red Lichties player/manager Paul Sheerin the nerveshredding day has shades of a shoot-out seven years ago when he was with St Johnstone and promotion to Scotland’s top flight was the prize.
The Perth side and Gretna battled it out to be title winners and for eight minutes Sheerin and his team-mates were going up.
St Johnstone defeated Hamilton 4-3, but a late late goal from James Grady gave Gretna a 3-2 win and took them up for their ill-fated spell in the SPL.
Sheerin recalled: “That day with St Johnstone was very painful indeed. We had won, however the Gretna game with Ross County had been delayed by eight minutes. We had done our job but just had to sit and wait there.
“I always remember Stevie Milne’s face. He was not playing but he had sat with a pair of headphones on and was listening to the game at Dingwall.
“The colour just drained from him and he did not need to say anything as we knew what had happened by looking at him.
“It was probably my worst day in football and you could not get anyone to write the script. There is just a feeling of helplessness as you cannot influence what happens in a game somewhere else.”
A draw would see Sheerin’s side reach ninth place on goal difference if Gary Naysmith’s side lose to the promotion-chasing Honest Men, but Sheerin is only interested in a win.
The 39-year-old said: “I said a few weeks ago that if we took things to the last week I would be pleased. We have done that now and winning this game is now the bottom line.
“There is no point in trying to be clever during the game and reacting to what you think is happening elsewhere. We cannot say okay all we need know is a point so change tactics.
“You cannot rely too much on the crowd reaction as we thought last Saturday that East Fife were winning but that was not the case. It is hard to gauge what is going on elsewhere so we will just concentrate on ourselves.
“We don’t really need to know what is happening elsewhere. If we win I will ask the East Fife score quicker than if we draw.”
“If we lose I will not even be asking their score.”