Westley finds inspiration in The Good Book

STEVENAGE manager Graham Westley has revealed how he called on the help of history’s most famous underdog to engineer one of the great FA Cup triumphs.

In the week preceding his League Two side’s 3-1 third round win against Newcastle on Saturday, Westley rammed home the story of ‘David and Goliath’ and how the little Israelite had defeated the giant champion of the Philistines by design, not by chance.

It explains in part the physical desire and the energy with which Stevenage overwhelmed their Premier League visitors and gained sweet revenge for their famous fourth round knockout by Alan Shearer’s Newcastle 13 years ago.