The Royalists have reached the last 16 of the competition – then the third round – in the 1988-89 season when they drew at home with Hyde United before going on to lose the replay 2-0.

Many see the latest feat as placing them at least on a par with the best to date, and as good as the semi-final place in the FA Vase they captured in the 1979-80 season.

Brady, once of Tottenham Hotspur, Watford and, more recently, Wycombe Wanderers, turned last Saturday’s tie by opening the scoring with a great low drive after Sean Dyke’s cross had been cleverly dummied by cheeky forward Craig O’Connor.

Greene said: “It was 0-0 at the time and you always need that first goal, but Thame scored soon afterwards and against the run of play I thought.

“But we got back into them quickly. It wasn’t just the win that pleased me but the way we won, they were all good, well taken goals.”

Greene’s old team-mate Mark West, with whom he played alongside in a forward line-up at Wycombe, snatched a late goal to make the final minutes of injury time – the referee found almost seven minutes from somewhere – rather nervous.

But Greene said: “I spoke to Westy afterwards and he said he thought that we destroyed them in the second half. But we have been performing well each and every week, so I knew that we would have no problem in performing well again.”

The forgotten man, Gordon Hill, gave his manager a boost with two goals that put the Royalists into the fourth round.

“With strikers like him around players like Sol Campbell will have to watch out,” joked Greene. “But Sean Dyke was excellent for us as well.”

He was. Man of the match by a country mile, Dyke’s power and pace enabled him to terrorise the right flank for the 90 minutes and it was he who set up two of the three goals.