Football with the handbrake off: Eastbourne Borough are a wow at Slough

So that’s November: seven games, six victories, one draw. Eighteen goals scored and two conceded – and five clean sheets. And considering that October had ended with that dismal 0-5 at Chelmsford, this run of successes is all the more striking.

Borough sink Slough – in 44 pictures by Lydia and Nick Redman.

All five goals were beauties – no scruffy goalmouth scrambles – and this was a whole-team performance. When your centre-half is scoring with a volley that Harry Kane would be proud of, and when your full-backs are spending as much time in the opposition half as in their own, you can only admire.

A word, first, for Slough Town, very welcoming football people but a club in transition. Long-serving management team Neil Baker and Jon Underwood have just stepped aside after an exhausting decade, and you had to feel for Scott Davies as he took his first game in full charge. Half an hour in, with his team 0-3 down, Scott subbed himself in order to take a hard look from the touchline.

The Rebels had actually made a lively start, and Ben Harris saw his goalbound header deflected over by the impressive Jack Burchell. Then James Vaughan copped an early yellow for a midfield trip – referee Ben Atkinson putting an early marker down, perhaps, in a contest which would produce very few contentious moments.

With 15 minutes played, and Borough increasingly dominant, Chris Whelpdale chased a Kai Innocent ball down the left touchline, brilliantly snaffled it from the defender, and played the perfect ball across the Slough goalmouth for Jake Hutchinson’s emphatic finish: 1-0.