Horsham came within minutes of halting the AFC Wimbledon bandwagon in a five-goal thriller in front of a 1,747 crowd at Queen Street.

It is now 65 matches since the visitors were beaten in a league game but you could have got odds on the run coming to an end after 89 minutes with the Sussex side leading 2-1.

But the never-say-die Londoners equalised from the penalty spot and then went on to steal all three points with a scrambled winner during seven minutes of injury time.

Disappointed Horsham manager John Maggs said: "I'm gutted. I thought it was our day."

Maggs had no complaints about the penalty award but questions were being asked after the game over the free-kick which led to the winner.

Substitute Eddie French, sent off the previous Saturday at Bromley, escaped a red card this time when he was guilty of pulling down danger man Richard Butler and Robert Ursell dispatched the spot kick.

Then, when the Wimbledon striker went down again in added time, defender Steve Butler got the final touch after the ball had come back off the angle of the woodwork.

A draw would have probably been a fair result but 3-2 was hard on Horsham, who had been the better side in the first half but were under the cosh for most of the second and had goalkeeper Luke Burton to thank for denying Wimbledon on a number of occasions.

The difference was an injury to Gary Charman shortly before the interval. The livewire Horsham player was the game's best player up to that point, causing Wimbledon all sorts of problems and frequently getting behind their defenders.

The visitors scored first, Richard Butler taking Ursell's return pass to convert the first chance of the match after ten minutes, but Charman pounced to level the scores four minutes later after good work by John Westcott and Rob Collins.

Horsham took the lead after 28 minutes, Luke Gedling firing a free-kick round the wall after Charman had been brought down on the edge of the box.