Deal Town have chance to go top of Southern Counties East Premier Division as they host basement boys Welling Town but manager Steve King won’t get carried away

Deal are set to go top in the Southern Counties East Premier Division title race - and boss Steve King wants them to embrace being at the summit.

King’s team took another huge step towards becoming champions this season with a 4-2 weekend win over leaders Glebe, four days after a 3-0 victory against Fisher at the Charles Sports Ground.

Glebe still started the week three points clear at the top.

But Deal, who have still played the least number of league fixtures in the division, could hit the front with another win at home to basement boys Welling Town tonight before this Saturday’s game against Sutton Athletic and an Easter Monday trip to Whitstable.

On the prospect of going top at the business end of the campaign, King, whose side reached the Challenge Cup Semi-Final and FA Vase Quarter-Final, said: “That will be a nice boost.

“We haven’t led the table at all, really! I will give the very boring answer that we have our internal points target for the season and we’re getting closer to that.

“We’re favourites now. We cannot hide from that.

“We have to embrace that. But we will keep working towards our points target.

“If we get that, we know that we will win the league because of the results around us.”

A club-record crowd of 1,086 on Non-League Day saw Ashley Miller, Billy Munday, Aaron Millbank and man-of-the-match Alex Green get the Deal goals against Glebe.

Incredibly, it was the club’s first league attendance of more than 1,000 since 1965.

King reflected: “We were delighted.

“It pretty much went perfectly. The win was important from a league perspective and a promotion perspective.

“But equally, when you get more than 1,000 in, it’s important that you put on a performance. It was really pleasing that the 1,000 or so