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Prior to kick off of this match the big talking point was could United field eleven fit players? A bruising midweek FA Trophy encounter with Harrow Borough had put question marks over five of the first team squad and with three others missing that game the last thing anyone really wanted was a fixture with the team with the best defensive record in the league.

But that's what we'd got. Promoted Billericay had started the season all guns blazing, surprising a number of the more fancied sides and currently sat in second place in the Premier Division. The only team with a better record at that point was Bob Dowie's Aylesbury, who had taken the League by storm and sat proudly five points clear of their visitors.

In the end only three players remained on the casualty list as United ran riot. Despite only having a solitary goal lead at the interval the Ducks had created numerous cahnces with wingbacks Kieran Gallagher and Jermaine Darlington in rampant form.

Gallagher it was who set up the first, skipping round three defenders before pulling the ball back to top scorer Gary Crawshaw who joyously slid home. The diminutive striker immediately repaid the favour teeing up Gallagher but his spectacular volley was well saved by Dave Root.

Gallagher, Darlington, King and Crawshaw all had chances to extend their sides lead before the break, but the Billericay goal seemed to lead a charmed life.

Then minutes into the second period, when the visitors looked to have weathered the storm, potential disaster struck as Gary Crawshaw limped off. At any other time this could have signalled the time to shut up shop. But with Aylesbury playing their best football in years the manager had other ideas and threw on a substitute destined to go down in Ducks folklore - Dominic Iorfa.

Former Peterborough striker Iorfa had recently joined the Ducks and he made an immediate impact on his debut. With a little over twenty minutes the man in the bright yellow boots scored his first for the club, smashing home a Kieran Gallagher cross.

Fourteen minutes later he was on hand to ram home a rebound to put the result beyond doubt and secure Aylesbury's eighth consecutive League victory and extend their lead to eight points.

Sadly this was the highlight of Iorfa's Buckingham Road career. The following week United's run came to a half at St. Albans, but not before the lanky striker had ensured his place in the Aylesbury Hall of Fame. Waiting to come on as a second half subsitute with his side trailing, Iorfan decided to try and speed up proceedings by launching an attack on of the officials which included a string of unreapeatable expletives. Before he was even allowed to enter the field of play the referee dismissed him and thus condemned his side to defeat. Perhaps not surprisingly he never played for the club again. He may have only played 39 minutes in the Green and White, but few who saw him will forget him.