“We’ll work hard over the two weeks in training - we won’t have a day off - we’ll be in working and look to go again after the break. We were obviously disappointed with the result [against Billericay]. I thought first half we were by far the dominant team, it was a superb 45 minutes from us.

“We could have easily been two or three-nil up at half-time and we weren’t ruthless enough.

“It has come back to bite us.

“I thought we started the second half fairly well, first five minutes, but they’ve scored with their first chance which knocked the stuffing out of us a little bit.

“The second goal is handball and the referee admitted that to me, which was disappointing, and then we go down again to 10 men and you’re then looking at defeat.”

Derry was given his marching orders for a challenge on Town’s goalkeeper Sam Donkin while play was stopped, looking to get the ball back off him while he played keepy-uppy with a team-mate to the Folkestone man’s frustration.

Drury said he didn’t see it at the time but footage was later posted online, seen by millions after being shared on social media.

Drury, speaking after the match, said: “The ref said that Tom has kicked him and that’s three reds in four games now but that will be the first through ill-discipline and we will deal with that internally - if he’s done that.”