Gillingham boss Neil Harris was proud of his side for not only beating Brentford in the Carabao Cup, but by walking there in the first place!

With heavy traffic in West London, Harris and Co ditched their team bus and arrived late for their Third Round tie.

Having had to walk the last mile to the ground, the Gillingham players could have been forgiven for having conceded early after kick off had to be delayed until 8:05pm.

England striker Ivan Toney opened the scoring in the opening five minutes, but resolute defending from The Gills and especially from goalkeeper Jake Turner kept them very much in the game despite the home side dominating.

It was substitute Mikael Mandron that bagged the all important equaliser and with the two sides unable to be seperated after ninety plus minutes, it went to penalties.

With Gillingham having scored their opening six, Brentford choked at the all important moment and the travelling 2000 plus Gills fans were left to celebrate a famous win as Harris explained the troubles his side had even getting to the game:

“We got to about a quarter of a mile from Chiswick Roundabout and we got stuck,” he said.

“Fortunately we had a tactics board on the bus but we couldn’t move and they couldn’t get a police escort to us. We got in touch with the officials and decided to walk.”

“We had to leave two hours early this morning because of protestors. It’s been a bit of a carnage day. It’s a memorable night because of the performance, but also because of the factors surrounding it.”

Meanwhile, Brentford manager Thomas Frank was full of praise for his League Two opponents:

“First of all congratulations to Gillingham, it’s well done by them,” said manager Frank. “I don’t think you could doubt that I wanted to win with the team I put out but Gillingham did their job very well, they took their chance and they were spotless in the penalty shoot-out.”

He added: “It is very frustrating. We wanted to go far in the competition but this is cup football and why we love cup football. That’s the ‘beauty’ of it, and I hope Gillingham enjoy it.”

As much as Gillingham will enjoy the past 24 hours and the win will do a lot for the confidence of the side, it will count for nothing if they can’t translate that into some decent league form.

With Northampton Town coming to Priestfield on Saturday for a vital League Two clash, Gillingham will be hoping they can pull clear of the relegation zone having slipped to 22nd place.

The Cobblers come into the game sitting third in the league and have been in decent form of late.

Meanwhile, rumours of a takeoever at Gillingham gather at pace with talks ongoing and hopes that a new man could be in charge at Priestfield by the January transfer window.