Danny Kedwell celebrates Gillingham's promotion with the fans at the final whistle. Picture: Barry Goodwin

by Luke Cawdell

Danny Kedwell scored the winner that sealed Gillingham’s promotion and now wants to net the goals to take them to the title.

Kedwell’s 15th of the season helped the Gills to a 1-0 win over Torquay at Priestfield on Saturday as the Gills finished the weekend 14 points clear of fourth spot and eight ahead of second-placed Port Vale.

Kedwell, a boyhood Gillingham fan, said: “It was something I have been dreaming of for a long, long time to have scored the goal to get us promotion.

“But there is one more target now and I want to score the goal to make us champions.

“Promotion is a bonus, but we want this title. This is history for the club. It has been a long time since we have gone up as champions and we are going to be back on it and get a win at Cheltenham (next weekend) and then hopefully pick the trophy up here against Wimbledon.”

Kedwell joined the Gills in the summer of 2011, having scored the winning goal to send AFC Wimbledon into the Football League, but he rates Saturday’s strike as even more special.

He said: “Of course it was. That was a special time for them (Wimbledon) because of what they went through and how they came into the Football League. But this is a club I have supported all my life and I have dreamed about all my life, playing here.

“It is a special thing and to score a goal and get us promotion is an unbelievable feeling.”

Kedwell and the team celebrated on the final whistle in front of the Rainham End – a place where he used to watch games himself.

He said: “I just assumed we were up because the fans were singing it and we were just celebrating because we had won again.

“Then they were singing ‘we are going up’ and it was like, ‘oh my God we are up’ and then it went mental.”