Having not scored for three games it was vital that we got a good start in our home game against bottom-of-the-table Bedford, and we did just that. After two minutes their keeper came out to punch the ball, knocked it straight to Andy Drury, and fell over. He stayed down, but what’s Juke Box supposed to do? He lobbed it over the defence and into the goal. They were complaining afterwards that he should have put it out of play because the goalkeeper was down, but that’s against any player’s instincts. You put it into the goal and ask questions later. After a lengthy stoppage we ran riot. They didn’t have a reserve keeper on the bench, but none of the subsequent goals were down to that. They were down to good approach play and good finishing. I gave Lee Farrell a start after his successful loan spell at Horsham, and it was good to see him score two goals, both of them set up by Paul Booth, who has played his way back into form. When we got a penalty on the half hour, Lee wanted to take it to get his hat-trick but Paul Booth said ‘no way, I’m our penalty taker’, and as usual he made no mistake from the spot. Game well and truly over.

I was disappointed after that, to tell you the truth, because I think we could and should have racked up seven or eight and really sent out a message to the other teams. But our attacking play wasn’t incisive enough, and we lost our shape. We were a bit gung ho, running forward trying to get beyond people. If we’d kept to our game plan we would have done our goal difference a hell of a lot of good. I brought Siggy on with twenty minutes to go, and he got an assist, to make it 5-0. Actually he completely miscued his shot which fell into the path of Paul Booth on the far post, who did brilliantly to direct the ball into the net. I shouted ‘good pass, Siggy’ afterwards, but I turned round and winked at the crowd, to let them know I was joking.