No idea. I’ve absolutely no idea. All I can say is I can’t say I’m hugely surprised.

Even by Jos Mayebi’s standards, that was mad. Any analysis of that match starts and ends with him; the game can only be judged through the prism of Mayebi. Which is why the only thing about that match more remarkable than Mayebi’s performance was the fact that the match report in the Non League Paper mentioned him just twice, once to say he saved a penalty and once to mention that he caught a weak header in the last minute which I can’t even recall!

Quite simply, Mayebi made the sort of error which shouldn’t happen and it cost us a goal. And then he did it again, and got away with it. Oh, did I mention that he nearly did the exact same thing about ten minutes before the opening goal? Throw in a couple of charges a long way out of his area when he had no chance of getting to the ball and it doesn’t sound too good.

And yet in the midst of those wild moments, he pulled off at least three top drawer saves (one from a penalty), the likes of which you really wouldn’t expect to see a Conference keeper make (I’m loath to say four saves as a one-on-one stop he made was a consequence of him passing the ball straight to a striker!)

So, one might argue that in the final analysis, Mayebi is in profit. I doubt if you’ll find many football fans who’d prefer to see a safe option in the opposing goal rather than an erratic one, though.

To begin at the beginning, Mayebi made a magnificent one-handed save to prevent Tamworth taking a sixth minute lead. But soon after this he played a remarkably reckless pass out from the back, threading the ball narrowly beyond an onrushing striker to Steve Tomassen, who did well to get rid of the ball as he was tightly marked. It wasn’t a mistake Mayebi would learn from.

His error for the first goal wasn’t pretty. Okay, Leon Clowes put the back pass on his weaker foot, but he still had plenty of time to toe poke it away for a throw with his left and give the young centre back a dressing down. He probably had enough time to switch the ball to his right and still get it away before Perriket could close him down. He didn’t have scope to switch feet then let Perriket get tight before trying to slide a pass under him that Andrea Pirlo would have been proud of. Unfortunately, that was the option he chose.

The even more amazing thing was that in the second half he seemed to draw inspiration from some old youtube clips of “Phoenix from the Flames” and recreated his earlier pass to Tomassen! This time the full back couldn’t win it, and Mayebi had to make that one-on-one to deny Perriket, who must wonder how he could twice take the ball off the opposing goalkeeper in the same game and still not end up scoring.

Yet the tip-over he made from Todd’s header immediately after Bradley Reid had given us the lead was absolutely magnificent, ad he saved a point blank volley from Byfield deep into injury time too. Even a couple of days later my head’s still spinning trying to quantify his performance. The Non League Paper’s guy gave him six out of ten, by the way, but I’m not totally sure he noticed anything out of the ordinary.

I’d say Mayebi has more natural talent than any other keeper in the Conference by a fair distance – and I include my secret mancrush Chris Maxwell in that. In terms of decision-making, though, it’s a different matter.

It’s a shame all that overshadowed a wonderful first Wrexham goal by Reid, followed by some equally impressive celebrations! The kid’s got something, and when he and Rob Ogleby came on they breathed life into Wrexham’s attack. Ogleby had better be careful he doesn’t get labelled as a specialist substitute though.

However, the turn around had begun before either of them got on. As usually happens when a passing side meets a long ball team, there’s a struggle to impose each style on the opponent and the game falls into long phases where one side gets to play the game on their own terms. With the exception of a couple of brief flickers of promise from Wrexham, the opening fifty five minutes were a rather lengthy phase of domination for Tamworth.

We were penned in by their bombardment, struggled to get rid of their set pieces and although we did have one profitable avenue of escape, finding a lot of space in the hole between the lines of their rather flat 4-4-2, unfortunately Kevin Thornton didn’t have the best of games and struggled to capitalise.

About ten minutes into the second half, by which point we might easily have been dead and buried, we suddenly started forcing our game onto them. We moved the ball around neatly, but more importantly, we kept it. It didn’t really matter whether we did much with it, but simply by retaining possession we forced them deeper and deeper. Suddenly, when a ball into their box was unsuccessful, it was Tamworth who couldn’t keep the ball and, with a lack of options ahead of them, thrashed the ball straight back to us. Oddly, in a game which ought to have seen us well beaten, I was very disappointed that we didn’t win.

A final worrying note though: we need to start turning in better first half performances. I’d say that Halifax, when we were 3-1 down and reduced to ten men at the break, was our best first half performance so far. That’s a sobering thought.

Tamworth: Belford, Evans, Thomas, Richards-Everton, Capaldi; Kerry, Courtney, Baker (Todd 77), Jones; Peniket, Richards (Byfield 46). Unused subs: Wren, Harris, Woolery.

Wrexham: Mayebi, Tomassen, Clowes, Ntame, Hunt; Harris, Clarke, Thornton (Evans 77), Cieslewicz (Ogleby 62), Bishop, Ormerod (Reid 72) Unused subs: Coughlin, Rushton.

Referee: Rob Whitton (Essex)
Attendance: 1,128 Away: 398

Supporters Association Man of the Match: Steve Tomassen