YOU rarely realise as a football supporter that you are living through periods of glory for your club.

If you’re a Manchester United fan, chances are you identified the success under Sir Alex Ferguson and ditto for Chelsea supporters who have watched the club pre and post Roman Abramovich. But for the rest of us, it’s a lot harder.

When my own club made a first foray into the money pit of the Champions League I dared to dream it was just the beginning, but in reality, the team at the time and a top four finish in the Premier League was the pinnacle, not part of the descent.

However, in watching both Newport and Wrexham’s results and emotions at the weekend, it’s hard to ignore the fact that Exiles supporters really are experiencing a golden period in the club’s history.

Ten years ago Newport were part time and on route to finishing 18th in the sixth tier of English football and five years ago were still there, albeit on route to a record breaking promotion campaign that saw them promoted as champions.

That felt like a big moment, the Exiles finally throwing off the shackles and moving to within a promotion of their ultimate goal, a return to the Football League, but they were even in 2011 still a part time club with few professional players.

And now here we are, the start of 2015 and a situation where the Exiles are a single point off the automatic promotion places in League Two, looking more than capable of achieving a third promotion in six seasons.

Newport County fans are living their dreams and to see Wrexham, a mainstay of the Football League throughout Newport’s journey through the non-league pyramid being patted on the back as nearly men in the FA Cup while vowing to put right another poor Conference campaign, it provides us a little perspective.

On the evidence of their debut campaign in the Football League and considering their budget and start to this season, it is scarcely credible to see Justin Edinburgh’s men not just in the play-off positions of League Two but as the form side in the division, having accrued 18 points from their past seven matches.

Of course, County were also in a good spot 12 months ago, but they’ve already enjoyed far more fortune than last term with the Rodney Parade pitch in superb condition and unlikely to cause any postponements out of the ordinary.

County have better players, better circumstances and are better for the experience of last term and it is no longer possible to deny their results.

Edinburgh’s tried and tested 5-3-2 formation stifled the Exiles last year in the second half of the season when they became too predictable, but they’ve remained tactically flexible throughout this campaign and are yet to find many sides who can dominate against them. Even Championship side Reading had a tough examination against resolute County.

So many clubs lurch from manager to manager it’s become a success to survive a single season at the same club in the Football League with the average tenure just 11 months, but Newport are enjoying a period of genuine stability under the ninth longest serving manager in the English football.

He’s taken them up once, to Wembley twice and now looks like he could have at least a top seven finish up his sleeve for this term with Newport now containing almost an entire squad of professional players who live in the area.

There must be so many clubs in League Two and the Conference casting envious eyes to Rodney Parade with Newport unbeaten in the league at their fortress since the opening day of the campaign.

Football is a fickle sport and can things can turn quickly and it will only take an injury crisis, or the call from a big club for the manager or any other smaller things for Newport’s momentum to falter, but they are currently on an undeniable high, the culmination of an amazing half a decade for the club.

We can’t know how long it will last and as football supporters will always be cautious if not pessimistic, but it really is imperative for County fans to enjoy this current situation, because it’s been a once in a generation run of success. Long may it continue.