The script was perfect. League One had a winner-takes-all scenario on the final day of the 2012/13 season.
In 2013, Brentford and Doncaster were battling for promotion to the Championship. Neither team had their spot secured when they met at Griffin Park on the concluding fixture of the campaign.
Doncaster only needed to draw while Brentford had to win. Rovers came for the draw, focusing on tight defensive work to keep their opponents out.
It was working with the score 0-0 in second-half stoppage time. They were starting to celebrate but that was soon put on hold. In the 94th minute, referee Michael Oliver awarded Brentford a penalty when Dean Furman fouled Toumani Diagouraga in the box.
Up stepped Marcelo Trotta. The Bees forward had 12 goals on his tally that season and knew the weight of expectation on his shoulders.
The goalkeeper dived the wrong way but Trotta smashed his penalty onto the crossbar. Brentford had everyone forward, looking for that goal, and it allowed Doncaster to break forward.
Billy Paynter charged into an empty half of the pitch, soon joined by Rovers midfielder James Coppinger. It was a simple pass around the goalkeeper which allowed the latter to find the net.
"It's hard to put into words," Brentford boss Uwe Rosler said after the game.
"The whole group had to respond because the whole group knew who I selected to take the penalty - which was Kevin O'Connor. As a whole group we have to make sure that message will be followed.
"We should go home and get it out of the system and from tomorrow we start again and then we will be okay. But at the moment it's very difficult under the circumstances after we didn't go up.
"We were nervous and some players didn't want the ball. We should have shown more bravery as a team to get the ball down."
The result meant that Doncaster secured the League One title, with Bournemouth in second, and Brentford had to look to clinch promotion through the play-offs.
That wouldn't happen as defeat to Yeovil at Wembley sentenced them to another season in England's third tier. However, they would be promoted in 2014.
