Victory has never been sweeter for Market Drayton Town coach Mick Murphy than this 3-2 UniBond League President's Cup success at Leek.For the first Leek official to congratulate him on this welcome end to Town's recent slump in form was the man who shares his office at work.
Murphy combines his role as Town's coach with overseeing the Shropshire Football Association's development programme - and Leek's skipper, Andy Taylor, is one of his deputies.
"It was great to end our losing run... but nothing as good as being congratulated by Andy afterwards," said Murphy, grinning broadly as they both discussed the game afterwards.
"We share the same office and work closely together so we obviously both had plenty riding on the result, especially as Leek have been going well in recent weeks while we've suffered a bad patch."
Taylor, who stuck to "no comment" on his own side's performance, might have felt it a little churlish to point out that Leek had hit the woodwork three times and missed two absolute sitters before bowing out to a Town team who played well without key defender Paul McMullen and ace striker Tom Ward.
And Murphy himself admitted that an own goal by Leek defender Nick Ward was crucial. 
He said: "That was the turning point for us... the moment when we realised, after suffering weeks of bad luck, the ball was at last running for us.
"Yes, we had a little luck, but nothing we did not earn with a good team performance."
Leek had taken the lead shortly after the break when Leon Ashman, having already hit the bar and post, slid a good low shot under Town keeper Andrew Spooner as he rushed from goal in a desperate bid to save his scattered defence.
Martyn Davies headed a regulation equaliser for Town on the hour and his bustling presence helped persuade Ward to loft the ball into his own net on 72 minutes.But the Town striker's best moment

came a few minutes later when he scored a remarkable solo goal. As Leek threatened to break away down their left, Davies raced in with a well-timed tackle, then turned back inside, cheekily flipped the ball over the head of an advancing defender and nipped around him to rifle a left foot shot into the net. Gazza, eat your heart out!
Both sides had their moments in the closing 15 minutes but Town convincingly kept their noses in front, Leek's second goal, by sub Daniel Cope in in the last minute, doing nothing to shake their conviction that the good times could be coming back to Greenfields.
Town's injury troubles were not helped when it was revealed after the match at Ward would be out of action for at least a month. The striker, who won the club's top scoring award last season despite missing almost half their games through injury, is a key man in attack.
But while his style of play is almost impossible to replace among the present squad, there were some very encouraging performances from those who might be considered fringe players pushing for a regular first team place.
Andrew Spooner, who was playing for the now defunct Town reserves side in the Shropshire County League last season, maintained his impressive progress in goal and Danny Griffiths, another newcomer to the squad, had his best-yet outing at full back.