This was the classic relegation 6 pointer, a must win game. The pressure was on; no more near misses, and boy did we deliver. Before the game I asked for passion, effort, belief and quality, and every single Dons player gave all four of those attributes in spades. 15 battle hardened heroes were too much for a Hindhead side just as pumped up as we were, and who never ever gave up.

For the first time this season, we named an unchanged back four of JT, Cafu, Pete and Tom. Parker was shifted out to right mid to utilise his 'pace' leaving Ritchie and Ross in the middle, James at left wing and an old school Partnership of Carlo and Cos up top. The Italian stallion and his london mare.

Playing up the hill in the first half on the Hindhead mud bath was always going to be tricky and the home team had the better of the opening exchanges, although the Dons backline was never really in trouble, as a succession of long balls were expertly cut out by Pete and JT. Then disaster struck- we half cleared a corner only for it to fall to a Hindhead Hound on the edge of the area who volleyed the ball into the roof of the net. An excellent finish but exactly what we were trying to avoid.

The big concern when you are at the wrong end of the table is how you react to going behind. Well, to our enormous credit, the Dons fought back immediately- no sense of panic- and began to get a foothold in the game, passing the ball around nicely in the mud. It was no surprise when cos equalised after twenty minutes; an exquisite through ball from James split their fighty centre backs, Carlo picked it up and threaded through to Cos, who doesn't miss one on One's with the keeper. Game on.

I'm going to embarrass myself by saying I don't quite know how we scored our second, although I think Carlo ended a move by hammering home from just inside the area. Suddenly we were in the ascendancy and Parker created space for Tom to bundle forward on two occasions to test the keeper. Half time and we looked comfortable.

Second half started a little subdued but again there seemed little danger from Hindhead until a rare slip let them in and they smashed home at the back post on the hour. Again, no need to panic........

Ten minutes later james ghosted in at the far post to give us the lead and then Tom opened his account for the Dons with a well taken finish in the 80th minute. The Dons were cruising now and were looking forward to their post match pint when suddenly Hindhead fought back one last time (like a Bond villain who just refuses to die) with another well taken finish.

The ref inexplicably signaled another five minutes injury time but we hung on, again showing great composure to put ourselves at the top of our little mini-league with the Cove and Hindhead Hounds. (Beat Odiham in our next game and they are well within reach).

As I said, fantastic to get the win, but just as pleasing was the team spirit, togetherness, passion and desire to dig out a victory against a physical team on an awful pitch.

Great to see Andy back, we have missed you on and off the pitch, and Craig again looked very lively when he came on. Kiley probably isn't quite ready for real men's football, however. Chris looked good in his new Dons kit and battled like a Trojan when he came on.

MOTM: james r for a goal, some excellent wing play particularly in the first half, and really good energy all game. Ross and Tom just behind.