MALDON & TIPTREE manager Terry Spillane admitted it was 'unbelievable' watching his side draw 4-4 with Burnham Ramblers.
The two teams met in their rearranged Ryman League Division One North clash on Tuesday night and produced a thrilling encounter.
The game had been abandoned at half-time last month due to a waterlogged pitch with Burnham 4-3 up.
This one was put at risk by a partial floodlight failure before kick-off, but once it did get underway, it was another thriller.
"We've never had anything like that before here," he said. "Maybe someone's having a laugh with us and they want to have some entertainment with Maldon and Burnham – and they certainly got that.
"It was a bit of a cold and windy night so I think we wanted to give the fans their money's worth.
"If some of the goals from the game were in the Premier League, you'd just keep playing them. They were unbelievable.
"I was going to say it was the first time we'd let four goals in, but the last time we played them we let four in as well, although they didn't count."
The sides are due to do battle again in the League Cup in a couple of weeks time, and Spillane won't rule out the possibility of another thriller with Keith Wilson's men.
"We're quite friendly our clubs," he added. "We've got them again in two weeks in the League Cup and I said to Keith that we should just flip a coin because I don't think our hearts are going to last another 90 minutes of that.
"I think we're both attacking sides, we've both got decent defences, but some of the goals – especially the last one – it's a great goal.
"In the cold light of day there's nothing you can do about it, you can't legislate for goals like that.
"We went 1-0 down then got ourselves 3-1 in front, they got it back to 3-3 and then we got back in front and you think you'll close up shop, but all of a sudden the kid hits one from 30 yards."
Spillane was, however, frustrated about refereeing decisions, both in that game and Saturday's 2-0 FA Cup loss to Heybridge.
He said: "At 3-2 we had a nailed on penalty five yards away from the linesman and I asked them about it after the game and the referee said that he dived – I said that if that was the case he should have booked my player.
"Things like that are frustrating, my assistant tried to put a positive spin on it by saying these things even themselves out but at the moment it doesn't feel like it's coming but that's football and you do just have to get on with it.
"We just don't seem to be getting the rub of the green at the moment.
"There's an old saying though, the harder you work the luckier you get so we'll be working harder.
"We've got a tough week coming up, Dereham at home, Witham at home and then VCD, so we'll be working hard to get positive results out of that."
