A deserved victory for Aveley over Torquay United at Parkside, where the scoreline flattered the visitors, who had their goalkeeper Mark Halstead to thank for keeping it respectable.
Gary Johnson is 67 and well into the fourth decade of a managerial career that began at Newmarket in 1986 – but the Torquay United boss has no intention of packing away the cones and hanging up the tracksuit yet.