After an interview with Reuters had been published there were approaches from the Zambian Times and from a Greek TV station who wanted "The Barber" to appear in their Sunday afternoon sports programme. But I was busy watching the fascinating Chasetown v Oldham Cup tie on the BBC.

Last week’s matches were Abbey v Audit Commission in the London League on Tuesday (3-0, with Abbey "opening their account" on 23 minutes) and Hanwell Town v Dulwich Hamlet in the London Senior Cup on Thursday (6-1) and those brought me up to my date with destiny at Priory Lane on Saturday. I was hoping my 5,000th would be memorable – and it was.

It kicked off at noon – I think it was something to do with policing the Bonfire Night celebrations in Lewes – and I took a No.1 bus from Eastbourne’s town centre to get to the ground by 11. I found a substantial crowd already inside, with the stand almost full, and the official attendance of 3,770 was more than 2,000 above the previous record. The "Match of the Day" cameras were there too.

Twenty years or so ago Borough were known as "Langney Sports" and playing on park pitches in the Eastbourne & Hastings League. It’s fantastic the progress the club has made, going up through the Sussex County League divisions, then into the Southern League and now the Conference South. I think I saw them for the first time in a County League Division 3 match against Cooksbridge in 1985, watched by about 30 people.

As kick-off approached on Saturday I was remembering the special players I’d seen in the red and black over the years – Steve Dell, Nigel Hole, Chris Marshall, Don Guy and, of course, the late Mick Green, after whom one of the stands has been named. Borough equalised with a twice-taken penalty in the last minute of normal time – it was one of the most dramatic endings to a match you could imagine – and as Oxford tried to force in the winner from a couple of corners in added time I thought I saw Mick block one shot on the line.

It was wonderful stuff and I was so pleased to have been there.

Within a few minutes of the final whistle I was on a bus taking me back to the town centre to see Eastbourne Town play Oakwood in the Sussex Senior Cup at The Saffrons. That had a 3 o’clock start and Town won 3-0. There was another 3-0 on Sunday morning as Old Town’s U18s beat Wadhurst United before a crowd estimated to be seven at Larkins Field.

So now it's back to obscurity for "The Barber". Back to the world of "two men and a dog", where he remains on first name terms with the dog.