"One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."

So said the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, but he wasn't a Braintree Town fan - or at least I don't think he was.

The dust has settled on a wonderful day last weekend and I'm sure manager Danny Searle and his players are already fully focused on a trip to Eastleigh on Saturday, but those of us on the sidelines are allowed to continue bathing in the glory of the Iron's 1-0 win against Salford City.

So let's do just that because it was a day worthy of being remembered at Cressing Road.

They have been in short supply at times this season and that's why the team are in the position they are, but if the Iron are going to give this survival thing a good go, then it's this sort of fight that we need to see.

And what a fight it was!

Salford arrived with their multi-million pound budget, big name players and even bigger name backers - Beckham, Scholes, Butt, Neville (x2) and Giggs - but they left with their tails between their legs.

Did a team sat second in the Vanarama National League table take rock-bottom Braintree too lightly?

No, I don't think they did - in my mind there was no deficiency on the part of the visitors, it was all about Braintree and their dogged refusal to accept what I'm sure many have already decided.

Callum Morton's stoppage-time winner was the cherry on the cake but Iron displayed - as a whole squad - that they do have what it takes to remain in the National League this year.

The three points and the manner of the win were so important as it helped lay to rest the ghosts of Havant & Waterlooville and Sutton United when it had been the Iron conceding late, but there was a bigger factor for me.

It was the atmosphere around the ground that was so uplifting - before, during and after the game.

It has been a fractious campaign with plenty of rancour, but Danny Searle's first home game as manager showed that the Iron really can move forward as one again and that's going to be oh so important not just for the rest of this season but beyond as well.

Danny is a coach who has already got to grips with the need to unify the club.

I saw he was present at Braintree Town Girls under-15s cup game at Chelmsford the day after they had formed the guard of honour for his team on Saturday and that's the type of classy move that another Danny who managed the club not so long ago was well-known for.

Mr Cowley appreciated the need to engage with absolutely everyone associated with the club and the current boss appears to be cut from a similar cloth as his words in my post-match interview with him echoed what his predecessor had said in times gone by.

So as important as the result was, the buoyant atmosphere on the terraces and in the clubhouse after the game was perhaps the most striking thing to come out of Saturday's encounter for me.

Let's not kid ourselves that the size of the task ahead of Braintree is gargantuan still, but wherever they end up next year, they have to head there in a unified manner and this was a wonderful way for them to head into what could be a memorable closing part of the campaign.

There are still 14 games to be played - that's almost a third of a season - and 42 points up for grabs.

Call me a dreamer, but I'd rather say I'm an optimist and having spoken to Danny Searle and some of his players, there is no shortage of belief.

Am I heralding a glorious summer after spotting one of Aristole's swallows?

Well if you take the Salford result in isolation, coupled with where the club still finds itself in the table, and there could be an argument that that is the case, but this was the Iron's third win in the last six league games and a fourth clean sheet to boot.

Now that's not relegation form.

It may not be time to get the sun lounger out just yet, but slap on a precautionary layer of factor 30 because summer could just be on it's way.