History Making White Tigers Can Be Proud - Hodges

The White Tigers are top of the Vanarama National League South and made club history on Saturday in reaching the FA Cup fourth qualifying round.

Lee Hodges’ side beat Bostik League North club AFC Sudbury 4-1 and will now face their league rivals Hampton and Richmond Borough on October 14th, following the draw early today.

Speaking after Saturday’s historic win, Hodges said: "It was always going to be a tough challenge for us. They came here on a high and in excellent form and we knew that they would work extremely hard and give it everything they had got.

"The conditions also didn’t help with the wind and rain and it was one of those ties that could have proved tricky for us to negotiate.

"But, credit to our lads, because they overcame going a goal behind, playing against the conditions, to get back on level terms just before the break and then at half-time we spoke about doing the same to them in the second half as they did to us by pressing them in.

"We managed to do that as our fitness levels showed through and in the end we could have won by a bigger margin than the 4-1 scoreline even though we didn’t necessarily deserve to.

"It’s fantastic that we have been able to create a bit of history by reaching the fourth qualifying round for the first-ever time and everyone involved can take pride from that."

Upon hearing the news of an away draw at Hampton, he said: "It will be a difficult tie because not only are we away to a team in the same League as us, but also we play them on Saturday.

"It’s one of those games where we have to go there and just enjoy the occasion."