WYCOMBE Wanderers’ last stand as the only unbeaten team in professional league football in England is over.

It took 1,710 minutes, but Blues finally tasted defeat in League Two on Saturday when they were beaten 3-2 at Aldershot Town.

It was their 19th league game of the campaign and means they fall two matches short of the club record set three years ago under John Gorman.

Taylor, who has managed a team to promotion out of every professional league in the country but never come close to an 18-match sequence without losing, said: “Nobody would have dreamed we could have gone 18 matches unbeaten.

“We’re now on 19 matches and 40 points, and we’re absolutely delighted with that.”

Three years ago Gorman’s team did not lose until the 22nd league game of the season.

Off-field tragedies meant Blues only managed another 34 points in the remaining 27 games, but Taylor is confident the Aldershot defeat won’t lead to a similar collapse.

He said: “What we’ve shown in the 18 games is that we’re capable of putting some more runs together.

“That’s what we need to do now. We need to learn from today and start again. I don’t think anyone is going to go on an 18-match unbeaten run again, I’m sure we’re not, but we’ve got make sure we get enough good runs.”

Wanderers still have a six-point lead at the top of the table, and Taylor admits that losing their unbeaten tag might even be a long-term blessing.

He said: “I don’t know what other managers say; it might be an easy thing to say in the changing room at quarter to three, ‘you go and be the only team to beat them.’ “So I imagine the chaps are in some ways happy that it’s out of the way and there’s less coverage.

“But it’s all about what you do on the field. Nobody has got a divine right to win a football match and we weren’t as good as we have been today.

“That happens in games, but I’m very, very happy we haven’t got a match on Tuesday. We can have a hard few days and I’ve no doubt we’ll be working towards a win next Saturday.

“I’m sure we will bounce back.”