Eastwood Town 2-0 Wycombe: Lindon Meikle is toast of the Town

Goal hero Lindon Meikle was glad to eat his words after helping to fire Eastwood Town into the third round for the first time in their history.

Manchester United fan Meikle has come in for plenty of stick from his team-mates after admitting he'd written off the Badgers' hopes against the unbeaten League Two leaders.

But the speedy 20-year-old's stunning opener put Paul Cox's men on the way to the shock of the round on Coronation Park's famous sloping pitch.

The striker, who has had trials with Newcastle, MK Dons and Yeovil, revealed: "I thought this would be the end of our FA Cup run to be honest.

"But we matched them everywhere man-for-man and got the goals that mattered. A win like this really puts us on the map and it's all good because this is what dreams are made of.

"This was the biggest game of my career and it means so much to scoreand win. Our main focus this season is on the league because we're desperate to get promoted but we have to make sure we enjoy a run like this."

Meikle, whose goal put the home side ahead, said: "I was waiting on the edge of the box and as Anton Foster flicked it to me I just hit it and it went in. I've scored a few goals like that this season but none as important."

Substitute Peter Knox clinched victory with an injury-time effort to stretch the Northern Premier League promotion hopefuls' unbeaten run to 10 games - eight of those wins.

Manager Cox added: "It's just a dream come true and everyone's walking on air at the minute. It'll be a couple of days before we come down to earth. It's my greatest moment in football because it's something the club's never done.

"We had some unbelievable support from the fans and we always thought we could beat Wycombe and we thoroughly deserved the result. I don't think they can have any complaints."

Wycombe have the chance to bounce back when they return to League Two action at home to Maccles field tomorrow.

Boss Peter Taylor admitted Eastwood wanted the win more than some of his players.

He said: "Give Eastwood credit and I hope they get a big club in the next round. This is a good reality check for the fans and players.

"We played as if we thought we were going to just win and you can't do that. We gave away two stupid goals. It meant 100 per cent to them but some of our challenges were only 90 per cent."

Eastwood Town : Redmond 7, Asher 7, Hume 7, Sturdy 7, Cooke 7, Meikle 8, Dunning 7, Foster 7, Gardner 7, Todd 7, Holmes 7 (Knox 88). Goals: Meikle 34, Knox 90

Wycombe : Shearer 5, Hunt 5, Johnson 5, McCracken 5, Woodman 5, Mousinho 5 (Doherty 61, 5), Holt 5, Spence 5, Phillips 5 (Crooks 81), Harrold 5, Zebroski 5.

Referee : Oliver Langford.
Attendance : 1,955