FINALLY, after more than 2,340 minutes of football, Seaford Town have registered their first point of the season.

The Badgers had been on a barren run since the opening day, losing all 25 games having conceded 77 goals and scoring only 14.

But on Saturday it all changed as they finished their 26th game of the season with a 1-1 draw against second-placed Wick and Barnham Football Club.

Their first point sparked scenes of wild celebration, having wrestled back from 1-0 down after Wick scored in the 32nd minute.

In January, former Welsh international and BBC pundit Robbie Savage mocked The Badgers on national radio for having a worse goal-scoring record than the then-seriously struggling Aston Villa in the Premier League.

But it was all smiles on the weekend and chairman at The Crouch Bob Thomsett said: “It was a massive sense of relief more than anything else, we went into the game fearing the worst playing a Wick team that needed a win to gain promotion back to division one.

“We were able to achieve our first point of the season with a team with no fewer than four players making their first 11 debuts.

“Hats off to Grantham Chatterley our reserve team manager for giving these young players the opportunity to develop in the reserves, and I’d also like to say well done to John Foley for giving them the chance.

“It was a very good team performance with the whole team working extremely hard to grab that elusive first point of the season.

“At the final whistle I went up to boss John Foley and called him across and said ‘John’. His reply was ‘what have I done now?’ I responded by congratulating him and giving him a big hug.

“We are all very relieved to get this so-called monkey off our backs.”

The Wick management went into the Seaford Town dressing room and shook all of the players’ hands after the game to congratulate them on their hardiness.

Mr Thomsett added: “Whilst it’s been great receiving all this publicity I’d have given it all up for a successful season, maybe it’s the British way focusing on failure and not success.

“The cheer they gave at the final whistle shows what we’ve been up against trying to find that elusive first point.

“It meant as much to the opposition not to be the first team in the league to concede a point to us than it did to us trying to achieve one.

“It’s still one point in 26 games, we’re not jumping up and down we are just very relieved not to be finishing with zero points.

“Now we’ve got the challenge of winning one of our last two games who knows?”