A SPECTACULAR 89th-minute Danny Glover strike fired Worcester City to glory in an FA Cup cracker.

With the second qualifying round tie heading for a replay at 2-2, up popped Glover to unleash a 25-yarder in-off the post and send the visiting bench cart-wheeling.

It was the perfect ending to a gripping contest at the Jakemans Stadium, in which Boston had cancelled out City’s two-goal lead given to them by Mark Danks and Tom Thorley in the first-half.

The hosts could well have won the match before Glover, sporting a bandage following a clash of heads with Shaun Pearson, struck.

But that would have been tough on Carl Heeley’s men as they produced arguably their best performance of the season against their Blue Square Bet North rivals.

Scant regard had been shown to the form book as City ran Boston, nine places higher in the table, ragged in the first-half.

The visitors were quicker to the ball, sharper in the tackle and passed it around with a confident ease.

Danks gave City the lead with their first shot after just 15 minutes, curling a delightful effort over keeper Aaron Butcher from the edge of the area.

Butcher was only in the team because first-choice James McKeown had been denied permission to play by parent club Peterborough at the 11th hour.

Five minutes later, he was picking the ball out of the net again, this time after Thorley had been allowed to saunter through unchallenged and crack a left-footed shot into the bottom corner.

City might have had a third soon after but Butcher managed to claw away Kevin O’Connor’s snap-shot at the last moment.

The visitors, with Mark Clyde back in the side following a virus, needed Tim Sandercombe’s intervention before the half was out as Boston created a few opportunities of their own.

The towering keeper was quickly down to thwart Danny Davidson, seconds before the striker suffered an injury and was replaced by Spencer Weir-Daley.

Ryan Clarke, playing against his former employers, also came up with a timely challenge to deny the Boston substitute.

Having earlier saved his side, Sandercombe inexplicably gifted the hosts a way back into the match nine minutes after the interval.

Faced with a routine clearance on the edge of his area, the City keeper opted to try and let the ball run out of play. But, in doing so, Boston striker Marc Newsham got in a challenge on the by-line, stole the ball off Sanderdombe’s boot and fired home from an acute angle.

Neil Cartwright, again deployed at left-back, did his best to hack it off the line but Boston were back in the hunt.

An injury to Tom Evans brought Gary Walker into the fray as an emergency right-back with Clarke moved into the centre.

But Boston’s pressure eventually paid off as City failed to clear the danger from sub Ryan Semple’s strike. Newsham floated the ball back across the six-yard box, Sandercombe flapped at it, missed and Jamie Yates pounced at the far post to equalise.

Now there only looked one winner. City’s defending became increasingly last-ditch and Rob Elvins, out for a month with a broken foot, was introduced as the visitors went five at the back.

Holding on for a draw seemed their only option and they escaped when Weir-Daley somehow failed to connect two yards out.

Then came Worcester’s opportunity. Thorley was brought down just outside the area and sub Jamie Price lined up the free-kick.

His effort was charged down but the loose ball fell to Glover and he sent it crashing off the upright for a famous victory.