The last-minute winner against Cheltenham on Sunday reminded us all just what football is about. We went through every emotion that day and If you saw the scenes on the bench it was crazy.

There was me on my knees, the gaffer running down the touchline doing his best Barry Fry impression and Ian Hendon trying to jump on him!

Before the game, we had a chat with their manager about the pitch. Apparently non-league Gloucester share the ground and that was why it was so bad.

We’ve been there before and the pitch had been in great condition but we were horrified when we turned up this time. It was so lively, even though they said they had watered it.

Sometimes you have to adapt to these things and it took us a while to settle.

After dinner the night before the match I was talking with the gaffer and saying how we never seem to get any dramatic late goals and how it was about time we did. And then bang, we get two of them!

We had been sitting there wondering if the goals were ever going to come, as the keeper was saving things on the line and things were going just wide.

Cody scored a terrific first goal. After the ball hit the woodwork he showed terrific reaction to instinctively score from the rebound. He was really brave and showed how much he wanted it.

That gave us the momentum and we scored from a terrific move to win the game.

We will be turning up at Priestfield on Saturday against a side who are probably playing without much pressure and with freedom.

They probably still have targets and may still be looking over their shoulder. They’ve won plenty of away games so we will need to be on our guard. Hopefully we will have too much for them.

While Hereford don’t have much to play for, most teams have.

There are so many teams going for promotion and the play-offs are great for keeping the season alive. Years ago when just the top few went up automatically you would be going out against players who were already on their holidays. You can look right down to the likes of Crewe in our division who all still have an eye on the play-offs.

Apparently the England manager this week said he only needed 100 words to manage the national team.

I haven’t worked under a foreign manager before – well, assuming you don’t count the German in charge of the Gills at the moment – but when I was at Bolton there were loads of nationalities. We had Japanese, Danish, Icelandic, Scottish, Welsh, Geordie, Finnish, French, Spanish, German, Nigerian and Jamaican – and the only word I picked up was sushi!

Sam Allardyce, the boss, didn’t speak much English either, as every second word was a swear word!