On Tuesday night we went up to Banbury to play a team a level below us, in the FA Trophy, the non-league equivalent of the FA Cup. We were due to play them on Saturday but the game was called off due to a waterlogged pitch. Between the postponement and the match, the draw for the next round was made, and the stakes were raised much higher. The winners of the game would get to play Oxford United at home.

What an incentive for Banbury to get through. Not only are Oxford the best team in non-league football this season, but the city is right next door to Banbury and so beating us would have meant a guaranteed gate of 4,000 and about 30 grand in the bank for them - and a local derby to fire up their players and crowd. So the cards were stacked against us - a three and a half hour coach journey on a Tuesday night to play on a heavy pitch against a team that needed to beat us to qualify for the game of their lives.

We were prepared, then, for a battle in front of a crowd that seemed to be about seven or eight hundred. The pressure mounted when we conceded a goal in the fourth minute - they sent a ball over the top and a bad bit of defending meant their geezer got on the end of it and finished well. We rolled our sleeves up and started to fight back. There was a period of 20 minutes or so in the middle of the first half when we were all over them. We scored a beautiful goal to equalise, which started in our half. Robbo to Kenno to Juke Box to Boothy who volleyed it in. Then Siggy was put through, the keeper came out, and he left-footed it into the bottom corner and we were 2-1 up.