FOR one unbelievable hour yesterday, AFC Totton served up the best football manager Louis Langdown has ever witnessed in the Evo-Stik South West.

In what the boss described as a “sublime” performance, the Stags powered themselves 3-0 up away to a Bristol Manor Farm side lording it second in the table.

The last half-hour was a different story as the promoted Western League champions staged a spirited fightback.

But the Stags held their nerve for a fabulous 3-2 victory which takes them fourth in the table, just two points adrift of the Bristolians approaching the halfway point of the season.

After Tony Lee had finished off a great team move to give Totton a 28th-minute lead, fellow frontman Craig Feeney stole the show with an unstoppable 30-yarder into the top corner.

On-loan Poole Town man Lee struck again to put the Stags into 3-0 half-time dreamland and he, Feeney and Charlie Gunson all had chances to build on it at the start of the second period.

Jordan Metters began the Bristol fightback just after the hour and when Stags centre-back Jack Smith conceded a penalty, tucked away by Kye Holly, it set up nerve-jangling finale.

But with young defender Callum Chugg producing a man-of-the-match performance on his return to the side, Totton saw the game out professionally.

“What a fantastic day!” Langdown smiled. “For 60 minutes we were sublime. If we could bottle that, we could sell it to the masses. I think every fan would want to watch football like that, it was so good.

“Bristol are still second and to get a result like that against one of the teams up there really does make a huge difference.

"It puts us in there as a viable option for the play-offs.”