‘They spurred us on,’ beamed a delighted Watson, whose captain, Chris Price led the Southport team over to acknowledge their rallying supporters.

‘The positive has come from what I have asked for – the fans got behind us – big time. They spurred us on when we were down to 10 men, I made changes, but I’m paid to do that.

‘I can say, hand-on-heart, we’ve no more big time Charlies at this club. We’ve got real team spirit and you can see they want to be together and together with the fans.’