Cup heroes Atherstone Town are back to bread-and-butter football this afternoon with what looks like a routine outing against a side anchored to the foot of the Midland Football League Division One.

Only Storm Dennis looks likely to get in the way of the town's FA Vase quarter finalists in the trip to Stafford Town's Evans Park ground (kick off 3pm).

Stafford are seven points adrift of the 19th-placed side in division and have shipped 10 goals in the last two games – without reply.

And last November the Adders hammered Stafford 7-0 in the corresponding fixture at Sheepy Road.

Complacency will be the biggest enemy for Scott Rickards' men after the Wednesday night hiatus of a victory over Worcester City in the last 16 of the Vase – decided by the steady nerve of Adam Goodby in a 5-4 winning penalty shootout after Adders' teenage keeper Aiden Jeynes had saved brilliantly from the home side's Luke Rowe.

The Adders go into the game with some catching up to do in the league. Sitting in eighth spot, they have between four and seven games in hand on the teams above them.

Stafford Town may not prove difficult opposition today but deserve recognition for their own achievements since being formed in 1976 by Gordon Evans.

The 77-year-old was awarded the British Empire Medal in the New Year's Honours two years ago for services to football and he must be proud of what has been achieved at Stafford Town.

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