Crowning moment of my football season....

Wimborne Town march on into the last 16 of the FA Vase after an exhilarating 4-2 extra time victory over West Yorkshire outfit Glasshoughton Welfare at Cuthbury.

The visitors haven’t got the best record in their league, currently sitting in the lower regions of the table but they put up a fight and had the cheek to take the lead when Luke Sherman bundled the ball over the line early on in the first half.

Wimborne Town supporters celebrate a fine victory and dreaming of a trip to the new Wembley Stadium .

Wimborne didn’t seem to be at the races in the opening half and were nowhere near looking like the side that confidently beat league leaders AFC Totton 3-0 away a week earlier.

But somehow you knew that the equaliser would eventually come, despite Glasshoughton almost doubling their lead when Sherman again almost netted but hit the Magpies’ crossbar from 25 yards instead.

The second half performance from Paul Arnold’s troops was a much better one and sure enough on 71 minutes Arnold junior, Scott, netted the equaliser.

Two minutes later the game was turned on its head when Chris Kennedy finished off a superb run with a good execution to put Wimborne 2-1 up.

That had to be that the way Wimborne were now performing but a bit of Yorkshire grit took over and with nine minutes of normal time to play the team that comes from just outside one of the top rugby league clubs in the country Castleford, showed that they were just as tough with Paul Stevenson making it 2-2.

The majority of an excellent crowd of 596 were stunned into silence but there was to be another twist to this match before extra time took place.

Wimborne's Scott Joyce taking on a Glasshoughton defender - photos by Andy Starmore
A second yellow card was awarded to the Glasshoughton goalkeeper, so they had to endure the whole of extra time with ten men.

Wimborne took advantage of that and took the lead for the second time in the match when Kennedy netted his second.

Just like the World Cup Final of 1966, Wimborne were 3-2 up (definitely over the line!) and everybody thought it was all over. When Stuart Cannie netted the Magpies fourth, no doubt there would have been a few mutterings of “it is now!”

That really "doesn't" grind my gears...