RICHARD MONEY urged his Cambridge United side to carry on relentlessly in pursuit of glory on three fronts after a Luke Berry double saw the Skrill Premier leaders past Bury last night.
The U’s made it 11 wins from 11 home games this season by beating the League Two strugglers 2-1 in their Budweiser-sponsored FA Cup first round replay at the Abbey Stadium, with talisman Berry’s seventh and eighth goals of the season sandwiching Shaun Harrad’s second-half equaliser.
Money admitted being “emotional” after his side “deservedly” beat a team five places above them in the league rankings, and now looks forward to hosting League One club Sheffield United on Sunday in the second round.
Last Saturday the U’s beat Salisbury to progress in the FA Trophy, and they top the Conference table by four points with a game in hand over Money’s former club Luton Town.
After last week’s win over Southport took them second, the Luton fans sang, ‘We’re coming for you, we’re coming for you, Cambridge United, we’re coming for you’ – and Money has obviously taken note.
“We said on Saturday that we really want to try and be in all three competitions come January, and with what we recruited last week, it gives us a group of players big enough to do that,” said Money, who has recently signed Jason Brown, Karl Ledsham, Josh Gillies and Aaron Pierre.
“We’ve got a very difficult tie on Sunday, and that might be the end of it. But we’re going to try our best.
“We’re going to try and stay in the Trophy and we want to be as many points clear as we can come Christmas, even though everyone is dying for us to drop points and let other teams catch up, because I think there is a real will out there for people to see it a bit tighter than it is at the minute.
“But we aren’t going to do that. We’re going to keep going. We’ve been relentless up to now and we’re going to try and carry on being relentless.
“I’m hearing that other teams are saying they’re coming for us – well, join the queue because there are five or six coming for us, and we know that.
“We’re going to keep our foot on the pedal and try and stay as many points clear as we can.”
