I apologised to Bedford’s manager after the game there on Saturday. We got hammered, we got absolutely taken apart, but we ended up winning 2-0. He said “OK Steve, that’s football.” I know how he feels. The same thing happened to us against Bishops Stortford the other week: we hammered them, they won 3-2, and it’s a terrible feeling. It was our keeper Danny Crane who kept us in the game. He made a couple of outstanding saves. One, a point-blank affair from a header in the first half, was like Gordon Banks’ save against Pele in 1970. The guy already had his arms in the air, to celebrate, and Danny managed to get a hand to it. Before that he’d made another great save tipping a shot round the far post. As I say, they were all over us.

It wasn’t as if we played particularly badly. I’d kept Kenno and Lewis Hamilton out of the side to freshen things up and because they were both on four bookings and one more would have led to them missing the Oxford game. But we’ve got a good squad, and there’s plenty of cover: Junior Kadi and David Perpetuini came in. We played averagely, to be fair, and they played out of their skins. We’ve come to expect that at Lewes, everyone’s fired up against us. Then we got two goals right at the death. Great goals by Boothy, who’s on fire at the moment. He didn’t have a great game before that, but he was there when we needed him. Both goals came from passes by Jamie Cade, who’d come on as sub for Siggy, and both started in our own half. For the first, after a good passing move, Cadey found Boothy on the far post and he volleyed it home. For the second Cadey saw Boothy’s run and hit a pass from just inside the halfway line that beat the offside trap. Boothy and the keeper raced for the ball, Boothy got there first, went round the keeper and put it in the bottom corner.