The champagne corks popped merrily as Salisbury celebrated their Southern Premier League title triumph in true championship style.

Skipper Aaron Cook lifted the impressive Premier Shield in front of over 1,300 ecstatic fans, who poured on to the Raymond McEnhill Stadium pitch after being treated to a five-goal show against Cheshunt.

"It was a terrific performance to cap what's been a marvelous season for all concerned at Salisbury," said manager Nick Holmes, who was content to remain in the background again as his squad relished the occasion.

Cheshunt were ripped apart in the initial 15 minutes - Salisbury threatening to score almost every time they went forward as they stormed to their seventh successive league victory, during which they have blasted 19 goals and conceded just three.

"We passed the ball around nicely on not the best playing surface in the world," said Holmes.

"But did what we are best at and that's getting the ball up to Paul Sales and Matt Tubbs - and got our rewards.

"We scored three goals in the opening 15 minutes and, by half-time, could have scored even more."

Ironically, Sales didn't add to his season's 22-goal tally - but he won virtually every aerial challenge.

But while Sales and Tubbs caught the eye up front, it was the non-stop midfield performance of Luke Prince that shone out in midfield.

An eve of transfer deadline signing from Mangotsfield United, Prince was superb in the Salisbury engine room.

"He was the architect behind four of our five goals and has been a terrific signing," Holmes grinned.

Salisbury already had the title sealed before Cheshunt arrived, so relaxed, 'no pressure' football was the order of the day.

Cheshunt were simply swept aside by a Salisbury side who, on this performance, have the ability to be a real handful in Nationwide Conference League South football next season.

They were a goal up inside the opening two minutes through Wayne Turk and 3-0 ahead by the end of the first quarter - central defenders Tim Bond and Aaron Cook celebrating their first goals of a season in which their work has been done with aplomb at the opposite end of the pitch.

The aerial menace of Sales - and Prince's deliveries from the flanks - was all too much for the Hertfordshire visitors.

Sales had a hand - or, more appropriately, a head - in the first three goals, while Prince's cross provided a venomous fourth goal for leading scorer Tubbs, his 28th of the campaign, on 33 minutes.

"I was a case of damage limitation for Cheshunt after the break," Holmes said.

"We didn't create so much in the second half and the heat took its toll on the players.

"We're not accustomed to playing in warm sunshine!"

Salisbury's fans, gearing up for a champagne party, had to wait until injury-time before their heroes got a fifth. But it was worth waiting for !

Dreadlocked on-loan Swindon Town striker Ashan Holgate, who had replaced Sales, held the ball up well and delivered an inch perfect pass for Turk to rip a rasping 20-yarder into the far corner..

It was a perfect end to a five-star Salisbury performance.