Whoever said that sport is healthy? My heart was beating like a blind cobblers thumb by the time the referee blew the final whistle and brought an end to this thriller.

Both sides had good chances before Dan Manuel opened the scoring for Stur after 18 minutes. Manuel cunningly lobbed the ball over ex-Stur keeper Andy Knight's head and watched as it bounced into the net (the ball, not Andy's head).

Two minutes later it was 2-0. Manuel got on the end of a long clearance from Shear and played the ball to Luke Geddes who hit his shot across the keeper and into the bottom corner of the net.

Boro pulled a goal back in the 26th minute when Stickland got onto the end of a long ball and toe poked it past Shear. Goodwin hit Stur's third in the 29th minute, but I missed this one as I had turned away from the action to answer my missus who was jabbering in my lughole (I'll bet the Times football correspondent never has to put up with this), but it was scored by Sam Goodwin so it was probably either a header or a shinner.

ht: 3-1

The visitors came back strongly in the second half and put the Stur goal under concerted pressure, but it was the home side who extended their lead when they broke quickly from defence. Manuel hit a long cross-field pass to Wood who played the ball first time to Assagba. Assagba teed up Stacey who fired the ball into the bottom corner from the edge of the area. The goal had come against the run of play and that should have been that, but no. Ten minutes from time, an own goal saw Boro pull the score back to 4-2. Straight from the kick off, Stur gave the ball away, Boro broke upfield and scored. Two goals in less than a minute and what was looking like a comfortable win was now anything but. With five minutes left, the cat was really put amongst the pigeons. A long clearance from Knights in the Boro goal was headed past Shear to make the score 4 - 4.

Stur were really under pressure now, but with four minutes left the home side broke from defence, Manuel outpaced the Boro defence and hammered the ball into the net for the winner - a goal so beautiful if you put a dress and some lipstick on it, it would look like that girl who says "Papa" on the renault adverts, only better.

Entering stoppage time, there was still time for drama. With 94 minutes and 28 seconds on the clock, Scott Logan was brought on. With 94 minutes and 34 seconds on the clock, Scott Logan was booked. Thankfully it was the last piece of action before the ref brought the game to a close.