Lymington & New Milton's incredible FA Cup run continued with a solid 2-0 win over Highworth Town in front of 280 enthralled spectators at the Fawcetts Field.

FA Cup fever has gripped the New Forest club this season, and they now stand just one match away from the first round proper.

And this morning's draw gave them a fourth qualifying round tie at Salisbury on October 25.

"We are tantilisingly close now to the first round proper," said manager Ian Robinson.

"In real terms, though, we're still a million miles away, and we've got an awful lot of work to do before we get there.

"We have played better than that this season, but I thought it was a very good workmanlike performance."

The latest victory in the most famous domestic cup competition in the world for the Linnets was mixed with some bizarre moments, and finished with one of the goals of the season.

Prior to bizarre moment number one, Robinson's troops dominated the early exchanges, but the enormous pressure on the visitors' goal didn't materialise into finding the net.

Peter Smith, who played as an attacking full back frightened the life out of Highworth, and his man-of-the-match performance was a huge feature in the eventual outcome.

Bizarre moment number one came after 28 minutes of the contest. Referee Bill Lillington appeared to twist an ankle, and he was consequently stretchered off, before an announcement on the tannoy left everyone in the ground highly amused.

"If there is any qualified official in the ground, would they please make themselves known," was the message over Fawcetts Field, and fully 15 minutes later an official who was involved with a game going on behind the ground came to the rescue. League referee Wendy Toms, who had been running the line, took centre stage in the middle, and bizarre moment number two, later in the game allowed two Highworth substitutes to take to the field with shirts on without numbers.

Luckily for Toms, she didn't have to book either of the mystery players, but Paul Donnelly was not so fortunate. He pulled Kevin James down inside the box and saw a second yellow card waved in his face and so trundled off for an early bath.

Kevin James then dispatched an inch perfect spot-kick to put Linnets ahead.

The visitors, considering their excellent league form going into this match, having won seven out of eight, were a disappointing spectacle, particularly when they resorted to some rash challenges, and now they were down to ten.

The Linnets have been playing some excellent football recently, and with 20 minutes remaining turned it on again in one sweeping attack.

John Bailey picked the ball up deep inside his own half, before dispatching it to Paddy James who found Trevor Smith.

His deft touch with the outside of his right boot produced a perfectly weighted ball for Thomson who toyed with a defender and then cut inside to fire an excellent right foot shot from the edge of the box into the bottom corner of the goal.