VIDEO: SPIREITES' GOLDEN GOALS '” Derek Niven scores for Chesterfield against Grimsby Town on return from cancer fight

Each week we are taking a look at some of the best to hit the net for Chesterfield over the past decades. If you have a goal you would like us to feature, email [email protected] with brief details and your memories of the strike and we will try to include in a future article.

This week’s Spireites golden goal came on 11th March, 2009 at Saltergate. It wasn’t just a spectacular strike, for it was really memorable for other reasons.

Midfielder Derek Niven was a true Chesterfield legend. He made almost 300 league appearances in a career that stretched from 2003 to 2012.

We have already seen in this Chesterfield Golden Goals feature that Niven could score spectacular goals — and have featured his strikes that beat Manchester City in the League Cup and marked the end of the Spireites playing at Saltergate.

But this golden goal — mentioned on Twitter by Rob@the_spireite — probably meant more to the tenacious midfielder than any of the 18 he struck in the league for the club.

For it marked his return to goalscoring after a year out of the game fighting testicular cancer.

WATCH Derek Niven score against Grimsby TownFans rally to support DerekThe Spireites, then in League Two, were taking on Grimsby Town, a club Niven was to later join. After a goalless first half, Drew Talbot gave the home side the lead.

Then up stepped Niven 15 minutes from time to smash an unstoppable long-range shot into the back of the net.

He surged forward from midfield, took the ball on to his trusty right foot and sent a dipping drive up and over the keeper.

The goal fittingly proved to be the winner as just a minute later Grimsby pulled a goal back, but Chesterfield hung on to win 2-1.

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