Gareth Ainsworth said he’s cool with the players from his ‘little Wycombe’ team to still be written off despite reaching his initial survival target – saying they’re still capable of more.

Victory over York City at Adams Park took Blues to 50 points after 25 games – the same total last year’s squad managed to accumulate in the entirety of a miserable 46 match campaign.

Their travails on and off the pitch led to them being among the bookmakers’ favourites to go down again this time around.

From the outside looking in, consecutive 1-0 home wins against strugglers Hartlepool and York doesn’t look like much to crow about, but Wanderers could easily have won both games by a convincing margin.

Had York’s debutant goalkeeper Bobby Olejnik not been in such inspired form, as he pulled off a succession of outstanding saves, Blues could well have been out of sight by half time.

They had to wait until the second half for Fred Onyedinma’s winning header, but the slick passing football that carved City apart had the home fans purring with a delight that’s not been felt at Adams Park for many a year.

Ainsworth said: “Let them keep saying they nicked it, because that’s what I like about this club. We’ve been written off for years and years as little Wycombe – and we are little Wycombe – and it’s great to have a team that really fights against it and says, ‘We are together’.

“We are making this place a fortress, which is really good to see, and we are playing some good stuff doing it as well.

“It’s great to reach that [50 points] with 21 games to go. It shows how far we’ve come and how far we could potentially go. There’s still a long way to go and it keeps me on my toes.

“I think consistency is going to be the key. If we’d have drawn today, I’d have been happy because of the performance. Results can go either way – the shot Marvin McCoy had, that could have gone in. It was a fantastic save from Matt Ingram and that’s what he’s paid to do. If that goes in, I’m still sat here a happy man because the performance was fantastic. That’s what gets you higher in divisions – consistency.”

He added: “We thoroughly deserved the win today. We could have had a lot more goals.

“We controlled the first half – their keeper must have won the man of the match award after 25 minutes. Second half was tough, they chucked a bit more at us, but if that had been a 3-or-4-0, nobody would have grumbled.”