Here’s one for the club historians: when was the last time we took seven points off the same team in a league season? Granted, due to the Isthmian League being a stickler for games finishing before handing over the points, we only banked four of them, but we all know we won that first game at Cray. The Youth Wing were demanding the points back yesterday.

It was great to see the closest thing the club has to a statto, Kev Brook, back at the Pan yesterday (disappointingly cardigan-free). I’ll ask him to fire up the club’s supercomputer and run the numbers:

While we’re waiting for those, we don’t need big data to know that yesterday’s game was one of the performances of the season. We didn’t get out of neutral for 90 minutes at Canvey last week, but here we were two goals up inside six minutes.

Both of those early strikes were fine goals. Peter Ojemen – candidate for most improved player of the season – wriggled free of two defenders from a throw-in and stroked a ball across the six-yard box that Bobby Unwin tapped home, possibly with an assist from a defender’s ankles.

Unwin was also involved in the second. The clueless twonk the club had on video commentary (see highlights below) praised Matt Warren for feeding Unwin with a delightful pass, but it was Marcus Sablier who got out the slide rule and fed the ball to Bobby. In my the commentator’s defence, it’s easy to confuse Sablier and Warren, they look so alike they’re virtually twins:

Unwin cut the ball back for Danny Bassett, who netted the second before many fans had even supped the head off their Harvey’s.

If things were going well on the football field, there were also encouraging signs for the Supporters Club cricket team. Parish Muirhead walloped a shot from 25 yards that went comfortably over the bar, only to be caught brilliantly in the slips on the Terry Parris Terrace by D Lamb.

The selectors will doubtless be in touch.

Alas, the commentator wasn’t the only one making the odd mistake out there. Having dominated so heavily that Cray made two substitutions after only half an hour, we helped them back into it shortly afterwards. Jack Meeres’ backwards header fell short and the substitute striker Adam Coombes rounded Toby Bull before having his ankles clipped by the keeper. Toby got a hand to the penalty, but couldn’t keep it out.

That could have precipitated a tough second half against the high-flying Paper Millers, but after a scrappy 15 minutes or so of the second period, we were largely in control. We had to play that second half without Ollie Starkey, who having signed a loan extension earlier this week, then succumbed to what looked like a nasty knee injury that saw him stretchered off. Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Ollie.

It needed a scrappy one to settle the game. Danny Bassett put in a cross from the left. There followed a playground-scrap for the ball involving Ladapo, Hutchinson, their keeper, two defenders, a dog, a Ford Mondeo and four of the original cast of Les Miserables, before Parish Muirhead walloped it home at the back stick.

The fourth came from a corner, the ball floating over all the big fellas at the near post and landing perfectly for a largely unmarked Matty Warren to bundle it home.

I’m told that win makes us mathematically safe from relegation, while loitering 12 points from the play-off spots with six games to go suggests it’s going to be a stretch to gain promotion. But make no mistake, comfortable mid-table security is a great achievement in itself after a turbulent summer. Let’s enjoy whatever the final six games of the season bring.

Lewes: Bull, Warren, Meeres, Spinks, Ojemen, Muirhead (Allen), Sablier (Jones), Antonio, Starkey (Ladapo), Unwin (Hutchinson), Bassett (Ekpiteta).

Supporters Club man of the match: Having struggled to even find one last week, we could genuinely pick from six or seven contenders this week, but we’re giving it to Bobby Unwin, for two key involvements in that lightning start.

Boyesy’s brilliant photos:

Video highlights from Your Instant Replay: