THE date was September 23, 2000 when Wycombe Wanderers created a Football League record which still stands today – by scoring the fastest two successive goals.

Jamie Bates and Jermaine McSporran were the scorers and Peterborough were the opposition.

The gap was just nine seconds – a fact which amazed me when I was taken on a tour of Adams Park earlier this month.

So thanks to all the readers who took part in my contest last week to tell us how Wanderers achieved this incredible feat. Several of you were quick off the mark with your answer, but you would have had to get up very early to beat Dave Brooker who emailed me at 8.36am on Tuesday, barely minutes after I’d gotten out of bed for the day.

Dave rightly told me Blues scored immediately before half time and then straight after. Apparently, Peterborough didn’t touch the ball in between Bates and Big Mac slotting it into the onion bag.

So Dave wins my customary useless Backchat prize which is slightly less rubbish than usual. I am sending him a floating football radio which for some reason was hanging about in its box next to the Deputy Editor’s desk.

But the other extraordinary fact to emerge from this story is that the man who sub edited this column is, by utter coincidence, the same fellow who apparently unearthed the record all those years ago.

Stand up Dave Peters, Bucks Free Press Sports Editor, who tells me he researched the fact at the time. And he recalls, probably wrongly, it was me – yes me – who asked him to look into it.

I have no memory of that whatsoever, but if it’s true it’s meant I have been stunned and surprised by my own genius 11 years after I helped cement a bit of soccer history into the record books.

I probably had nothing to do with it whatsoever, but it’s nice to believe that my work somehow led to this being in the football hall of fame.

If it is true, it will be the only decent thing I have ever contributed to the world of football, apart from my support of Tottenham of course.