"I don’t know a manager in the land who doesn’t try to have a little tinker with their squad in January, and I’m no different. Things need to be freshened up: a few new faces need to come in and a few people need to go out. With that in mind I signed four players in time to play the home game against Sutton on Saturday, and I started three of them; goalkeeper Corrin Brooks-Meade on work experience from Fulham, striker Tyrone Berry on loan from Rushden and Diamonds; striker Chris Sharplin on a non-contract basis from Woking. Aussie defender/midfielder Matt McEntegart, on a non-contract basis from Forest Green, started on the bench.

It wasn’t a great day for football, with howling winds and sheeting rain, but we did well in the first half to take control, and we were one up within six minutes. It was Tyrone Berry who got the goal, after shooting on the turn. Their keeper might have done better, to tell you the truth, but it was a fine start for the lad, who’s played in the Crystal Palace first team in his time.

This was a game we really needed to win to keep in touch with the play-off pack, and Gary Holloway helped us on our way with a superb volley on twenty minutes, which flew into the top stanchion from 25 or 30 yards out. Sometimes those ones finish in Row Z, but Gary hit it as sweetly as you’ll see in any league in the land. It was just like Paul Scholes’ goal against Villa.