Torquay's players are on the floor, heads in hands.
Twice in a week, that is, and McPhee has been named Man of the Match.
The Gulls fans are streaming out now as a team of men in black assemble the presentation podium.
It's the Revenge of the Nerds, and the fans in red are giving it plenty.
It's a long walk up those stairs for the runners-up, but up they trudge. Woodsy leads them up, and the Gulls directors shake their hands.
Now Ebbsfleet are on their way up from the pitch.
Captain Paul McCarthy collects the trophy and shows it to the Fleet fans. They are ecstatic and deservedly so. They kept us at bay for the first half hour, pounced on a schoolboy error to score, and then hung on in the second half as we tired and ran out of ideas.