An unchanged team, with just a positional shuffle to the forward line, welcomed a St. Albans side who had won their previous eight games to a treacherously waterlogged Plough Lane for an Isthmian League fixture.

Wimbledon attacked right from the off, and Head sent in a centre that Stannard would have surely scored from had he been able to keep his footing, but he completely missed the ball from only a few yards out. But it still only took seven minutes for the home side to draw first blood, Laker totally deceiving Gibbons with a cross-shot. Another chance was wasted when Smith floundered in the mud as Stannard’s cross sailed past. Gibbons saved well from both Stannard and Smith and was then saved by Collings after Stannard had lobbed the ball over his head and goal-wards.

Haydock and the defence stood firm as the visitors applied pressure at the start of the second half and the momentum soon swung back the other way. As per the previous week there was a flourish in the final fifteen minutes. Receiving the ball following a throw-in near the left corner flag, Stannard wormed his way past several defenders and increased the Dons’ lead with ease. Three minutes later City attempted to retaliate, but Sayers shot straight at Haydock. The keeper immediately cleared to Head, who tapped the ball forwards to Stannard, who tricked his way past Chisholm and went on a thirty-yard run, avoiding the challenge of the keeper and sweeping the ball in for the third.