The FA Cup 1st Round Darlington game at the Dripping Pan on Saturday is one of the biggest in the club’s long history, so it would have been nice to have gone into it with a league win at top-of-the-table Histon under our belts. In the end we lost, but we were unlucky to, and we put in a good performance. They outplayed us in the first twenty minutes, and scored a goal they deserved at the end of that period. Dean Hooper didn’t get tight on his man, they played a 1-2 round him, and the geezer scored with a good finish. We came back well, however, and started pushing our way into the game. Before half-time we got an equaliser when Leon Legge came powering in to connect with a Juke Box corner, and the ball ripped into the net. 1-1 at half-time: anyone’s game.

I’ve got to say that the ref was an absolute joke: he sent Kenno off 10 minutes into the second half for his second yellow card offence. We got six yellows and that red in what wasn’t a dirty game by any stretch of the imagination. They capitalised when Gary Holloway played a back-pass too short and the geezer tucked it round the keeper. Then we showed our fighting spirit, and really got on top of them. Juke Box put in a cross to the far post and Boothy headed it in. He’s scoring goals for fun now, Boothy, that was his seventh in seven. It’s worth mentioning that he won player of the round in the Crawley game, which means that he’ll be presented with £500 to give for sporting equipment to a school of his choice and a trophy on the pitch before the Final at Wembley (I’ll have to concede it’s unlikely he’ll be playing later in the afternoon!)