HIGHWORTH Town manager John Fisher is looking forward to raising a drink to toast his FA Vase heroes next Saturday and the Elms boss is hoping it will be as the hors d’oeuvre to a Wembley final.

The Hellenic League Worthians will travel to North Shields next weekend looking to overturn a one-goal deficit after they were bested 1-0 in the first leg of their historic Vase semi-final at the Elms on Saturday.

Highworth remain in with a realistic chance of ending their sensational Vase run at the home of English football and Fisher is taking a philosophical attitude towards his club’s planned post-match party in the North East next Saturday.

“The good thing is that we’re staying up there for two nights,” said the Worthians chief.

“We will stay the second night and have a drink afterwards and hopefully it’s to celebrate but if it’s not, we’ll have a drink to say how well we’ve done and that the journey’s been great.

“But hopefully we’re saying ‘we’re at Wembley’.

“It’s still miles away at the moment and it’s a little bit farther away now but we’ve got 90 minutes of football, and maybe a little bit more if it goes to extra-time, and we’re still in with a shout.

“In the first half (at the weekend), we were nowhere near at the races and the lads were down, and we said ‘it’s 0-0 for God’s sake. We’re not out of the game’.

“Now they’ll be thinking ‘yes, we have got a chance’ because that second half will have lifted them above more than anything than we could have asked for.

“They’ve proved that they could compete with them and we could get something at North Shields.

“It’s going to be difficult – we know that – but we don’t do anything easy.”