CHALFONT St Peter are the talk of the town this week after recording a victory over League One side MK Dons that stopped people in their tracks.
They demolished the team that knocked Manchester United out of the Capital One Cup 8-0 on Wednesday night, with Daniel Ailey scoring twice inside eight minutes.
Danilson Vicente (2), Alex Paine, Gareth Paxton, Glenn Yala and Aaron Silcott completed a rout that forever stand out in the record books.
Saints boss Danny Edwards said: “You walk off thinking, ‘did that actually happen?’ I was taken aback.
“They are a professional side that trains every day but from the moment the game started we didn’t give them a sniff.
“Karl Robinson was there and so was their chairman. They had a strong side and were certainly taking the game seriously. They didn’t expect anything like that.
“But we’re undefeated in September and we just played really well.
“We were brave and pressed them very and won a lot of balls in their final third.
It wasn’t the full Dons first team, with a string of academy players involved, but Chalfont rested seven or eight of their first team as well with one eye on Saturday's FA Cup trip to Kettering.
Edwards said: “I was hoping the boys that came in would prove a point and they certainly did that.
“It was 5-0 at half time and I thought MK Dons would come back in the second half and it would finish 5-1 or 5-2. But we won the second half 3-0 as well.
“Now I could go to Kettering and play any one of 20 players.
“Not one of them deserves not to play but a few of them I’ve got to leave out of the squad completely.
“I think it will work for us though, because the boys that might come in against Kettering have to raise the bar, they have to show they deserve to be in the side because we’re going there to win.”
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