Manager Dan Beaman: "The scoreline is embarrassing; it makes it look like we played a bunch of terrible players when they weren't. They had some great individuals, three or four absolutely unreal players who did skills and tricks you only see on the internet, and the ball was like glue to their feet. The only difference is, they tried to take everyone on, didn't really pass to each other, and they grew frustrated with each other. We played as a team, with plenty of one and two touch passing. Every single one of our players played out of their skins and fought for every ball like their lives depended on it. Arsenal didn't, possibly thinking they were going to have an easy game against a team they've never heard of, and could beat us by skill alone.

After 15 minutes of being backs against the wall, with our keeper and the woodwork coming to our rescue, we hit three goals in about 5 minutes of out nowhere, and Arsenal fell apart until half time, after we scored another 4 of 5 when they were arguing amongst themselves.

After half time (when we were 8-1 up!), for the next half an hour they were slightly the better side, they started passing and matched our work rate.

But our keeper was amazing, and they missed the target a few times. We rode our luck at time, but we've also had bad luck infront of goal in the last couple of games.

We scored 3 in the last few minutes when they seemed to give up.

I've stated all along that it wasn't their main Academy Under 16 side, they have a few teams as you'd imagine, to look at trialists etc. They also had a few Under 15's playing for them aswell. For me their players were trying too hard to impress as individuals today, and football is a lot about character and desire. They were slightly arrogant before the game, laughing at us for taking team photos outside of the ground, but i think we had the last laugh.

Take nothing away from our lads, we played some breathtaking football for 90% of the game, and the parents were gobsmacked at the performance after the game.

A huge well done to everyone, and my thanks to Steve Smart who came down to referee (who was very fair to both sides), and to Jim McAlwane who came down to take the photos.

You've done me and your club proud today boys, well done. Use this as a spring board to improve further in your football over the next few years, as i won't be there to push you for much longer."