To reach this stage, London’s oldest club have already played four qualifying rounds to reach this stage. In the first qualifying round they drew two all at Lewes then won the replay one-nil. Next they hosted National League South Maidstone United and drew one-one at home before stunning the Stones by winning two-nil away.

In the third qualifying round, they enjoyed a convincing three-nil home win against Chippenham Town before they needed a replay plus a penalty shoot out four-three win to defeat National League North Bedford Town. They contested a goal-less stalemate away and a two-two draw after extra time at their Flamingo Park ground.

Tickets sold out almost as soon as being made available, and the match has been selected for live coverage by the BBC. Ahead of the big match, the Wands’ management team and owners held a press conference. Manager Tim O’Shea is looking forward to the day, as are the players. “They are feeling excited.” he said. “Haircuts are booked in for Saturday morning. Then they’ll come here and do their final prep. They’ve been keeping their focus as last Saturday was an important league game. We’ve tried to keep them focussed on the league games but we’ve let them loose this week and said ‘You’ve got to enjoy it. You’ve got to embrace it. It doesn’t come around too often. Just enjoy the whole occasion. If there’s anyone who wants to talk to you, talk to them. Just promote it. Just have a wonderful day.’”

Whist there have been replays in previous rounds, ties are decided on the day from the first round onwards. “It’s pluses and minuses.” confirmed O’Shea. “If we could get a draw in normal text on Sunday then look forward to a trip to Stockport, how great would that be for the players, the supporters and everyone at the club. The fact that it ends, if we get them on a bad day and could get the to penalties, which is a big ask, then it’s a lottery isn’t it. The boys have played seven games, FA Cup, and it’s two in the Trophy, we’re heavily involved in them and that’s why we’ve only played ten league games.”

On penalty practice, O’Shea joked “No stone’s unturned with us.” before continuing “No not at all. It’s who fancies a penalty. Unfortunately, he’s not going to be with us on Sunday, he’s got injured at Leyton Orient, but Jacob Lowe, he’s seventeen, got a great future and Cheshunt away, that was a Trophy game, he took the fifth penalty. When you ask, he says ‘I want to take the fifth’ and he did the same here against Bedford and got us through.

“The penalties, you don’t even know at that particular time, who’s going to be on the pitch. It’s really the ones, come the end of the game, who are in a decent frame of mind to go and take them. All that we ask is to make sure that the goalie at least makes a save. Missing the target’s a bit of a hard one to take but if the goalkeeper saves it, sometimes you’ve got to put your hand up and say fair play.”

Chairman Gary Hillman is also looking forward to the big day. He said “The Finances is very, very welcome but you can’t buy history. You can’t buy the exposure that we’re going to get on this. Everyone sees the ground, hopefully we’ll come across well on the TV, and our support has gone up from one hundred and fifty to two hundred when we were ground sharing at Bromley to seven/eight hundred averaging now so if we can get that up to a thousand it makes a difference to put a team out that can compete. We want to push up to the next level. This league is extremely hard to get out of with just one winning it and one going up through the play-offs but we’re very well equipped at this moment in time.”

Normally, the Wands like to play an attacking game but O’Shea realises that it would be a risk to be gung-ho against the high flying Stockport team. He joked “We’ll get a few of those buses that are a bit redundant out there and put them just outside our box, I think. We’ve got to respect them as an opposition and where they’re at. There’s no two ways about it. It’s unusual about going into a prep where we are going to have to do quite a bit of defensive shape whereas this year in our own league we are trying to play continually on the front foot.

“You’ve got to give them the utmost respect. They thoroughly, thoroughly deserve it, but we want to carry a threat. We want to give the supporters something to be excited about and not let the occasion put fear into our own players. There are players in Cray shirts out there who are capable of getting people off their seats.”

Kick-off is at 2:15pm on Sunday and for anyone not fortunate enough to have a ticket it will be shown live on BBC.