For what it is worth, Windass says he does not feel the instinctive need to celebrate his own goals, and tends to show more delight when team-mates score.<\/p>\n
Besides, for all the non-celebrations this season, it is obvious that beneath it all are hunger and ambition.<\/p>\n
Having had to start in eighth-tier football after his release from Huddersfield Town as a youngster, then getting a break at lowly Accrington, Windass’ route to this point in his career has been a winding one.<\/p>\n
Promotion and a first crack at the top flight was an aim when he was able to cancel his contract at Sheffield Wednesday last summer as a result of missed wages.<\/p>\n
“This is why I joined the club,” he said. “Everyone said they get promoted every year so I thought I’d come and try it out for myself, and hopefully I’m not bad luck!”<\/p>\n
If anything, the opposite is the case given his pedigree. <\/p>\n
There is an irony that Hull City \u2013 the club Wrexham are jostling with for sixth \u2013 are the side who won a Wembley play-off promotion to the Premier League courtesy of a spectacular strike from Windass’ father Dean 18 years ago.<\/p>\n
But Windass has play-off history of his own, having scored a 123rd-minute Wembley winner for Wednesday when they went up from League One three years ago.<\/p>\n
It was a rare occasion where Windass celebrated scoring.<\/p>\n
As the Championship’s final scenes approach, Wrexham will be hoping he can be the hero once more – even if he would be a reluctant one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For what it is worth, Windass says he does not feel the instinctive need to celebrate his own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}