WANDERERS boss Gareth Ainsworth says it feels great to be on top of the table after tonight’s 1-0 win over ten-man Cambridge United took the Blues to the League Two summit.

Michael Harriman’s second half stunner put them there but only after his team-mate Garry Thompson had missed an earlier penalty in the incident which saw United reduced to ten men when their keeper Chris Dunn was sent off for colliding with Gozie Ugwu.

Ainsworth said: “It feels great. To be top of the league is special for any club, but there is a long way to go. It is very early in the season but over the ten games the lads deserve it. It’s a small group of players and you look around sometimes and think how are we doing this but I just have to look into the boys’ eyes and I know how we are doing it. They never give up, they never know when they are beat and fight to the bitter end. They love being this team that everyone thinks one day will run out of steam.

“It’s brilliant. I love my job and love working with these boys. I’m really pleased with them.

“I’m hoping people take us seriously but the league table means nothing at this stage. It’s great to be there and what it does mean is that after ten games we have really come together quickly. We are fighting well together but it is the table after 46 games which interests everybody.

“We had four outfield players on the bench tonight and it is looking like we will have three because of injuries.”

He was referring to match-winning hero Harriman who hobbled off clutching his groin and now faces a race against time to be fit for Saturday’s clash at home to Northampton.

Ainsworth said: “I’m not saying he’s out but it’s Tuesday now and we will have to do some magic on him for him to be right for Saturday.”

United boss Richard Money was a less happy chief. He said his side should not have been reduced to ten and said it wasn't a penalty.

Ainsworth did not want to comment on the incident until he had seen it back on the DVD but he said he did not think the match hinged on that decision.

He said: “If the keeper got something on the ball we may have had a bit of good fortune but I don’t know.

“I don’t want people thinking the game hinged on the red card because I thought we were the better team before that. Half time came at the wrong time for us, we were on top and knocking on the door of Cambridge.”

Blues reshuffled after a first 15 minutes when Cambridge settled well but Wanderers still needed Harriman’s 25-yard goal out of nothing to win it.

Ainsworth said: “It was a great strike to win the game, a fantastic goal and maybe we could have had three or four.”