IN a recent supporters' club newsletter, Danny McDonnell said the funniest thing in football, was John Snape trying to shoot.

City's keeper might have to find something new to laugh at, following Snape's thunderous drive on Saturday.

The midfielder's left-foot shot helped seal a great win for the club, and gave Snape a rare of moment of glory.

It's perhaps typical that on the day he scores one of the best goals of his career, and certainly the best at City, his effort was overshadowed by Adam Webster's hat-trick but hogging headlines has never been what Snape is about.

In fact Snape couldn't be happier for Webster who has been a frustrated figure on the sidelines for the last two months.

"Adam was magnificent. He's come in, taken his chance and will be looking for a run of games," said Snape.

"Mark Owen will be breathing down his neck but if he's scoring goals, he'll stay in. That's what we need. Competition for places. We've got it in midfield in abundance, now Webby's forced his way up front when it looked like Mark and Leon would be the front pairing to the end of the season."

While others steal the limelight on the pitch, Snape is a popular, and influential, presence in the St George's Lane dressing room.

More used to breaking up play than carving out chances for himself, Snape was understandably delighted with his goal on Saturday.

It also gave him some ammunition to use in the dressing room banter stakes, particularly with Jai Stanley and Pat Lyons who have yet to trouble the scorers this season. (Stanley was credited with a goal against Sutton in the Dr Martens Cup but if the 'dodgy goals panel' was ever convened that would surely be struck off).

"It's one of the best goals of scored," admitted Snape. "I have scored with my left before, for Hereford against Forest Green Rovers, and it was pretty similar to that but it is a bit of a collector's item because the chances of me catching one like that are few and far between.

"To be fair I've never been a goalscorer, I never get that far forward."

A genial character away from the football, Snape's is a tough, unyielding player on the pitch, not averse to putting his foot in and rattling a few egos on the pitch.

Not surprisingly he revelled in the Dover match and, for all the Kent side's attempts at intimidation, it was Snape who left his mark, literally, as the Whites' Lee Spiller will no doubt testify following one X-rated challenge in the second half.

A veteran of many battles, Snape can look after himself, but he was pleased with how his team-mates fared.

"Second half we murdered them and I don't think they were a bad side," he said. "They tried to mix it but our lads stood up to it well."