TOM REVELLED ON CUP GLORY TRAIL

HIS side may have bowed out of the FA Cup on Monday night, but Ramsgate goalkeeper Tom Hadler certainly won a few admirers this week!

-  Hugo Varley

The former Ebbsfleet United and Gillingham keeper pulled off a succession of gravity-defying saves in a desperate attempt to tame a ruthless AFC Wimbledon front line and wrestle the metaphorical floodgates shut.

The plucky Step 4 Rams ultimately fell to a 5-0 defeat at Plough Lane, but Hadler made no fewer than 12 point-blank stops, as well as preventing any more goals during the final 35 minutes, keeping his side’s pride well and truly intact.

“I was definitely kept on my toes out there,” the 27-year-old shot-stopper said. “It was always going to be one hell of a task for us. Wimbledon are doing well in League Two and the gulf in class probably showed from early on, but we have nothing to feel down about, the club was put on the map.