Visitors to the Express & Star website have been able to see rare footage of a football club manager giving his pre-match team talk, as part of a series of films put together by video journalist Andy Toft.

Andy was given full access to follow non-league Chasetown FC in the build-up to their second-round FA Cup qualifying game with Halesowen.

He was joined by Richard McCarthy from the Press Association, who has been helping the Wolverhampton-based paper launch the video news service.

Last year the Staffordshire club made its mark on the tournament, forcing a first-round replay against Oldham Athletic and having the home tie broadcast on the BBC - quite a feat for a club of its size.

And so the Express & Star decided to put together a fly-on-the-wall piece to give readers an insight into the long road to Wembley.

Chasetown manager Charlie Blakemore and his team allowed the Express & Star cameras to follow them from their pre-match meal through to the final whistle, with Andy and Richard joining them on the team bus and even in the dressing room for the pre-match team talk.

Andy said: "That was pretty unprecendented.

"It was a real eye-opener - unless you play football at a certain level you don't usually get to see that sort of thing."

He added: "We met up at a hotel in Dudley and they insisted we join them for the pre-match meal and made us feel part of the squad.

"From the hotel it was onto the coach to travel to the ground along with team, management and supporters.

"The undoubted highlight for myself and Rich was being allowed into the dressing room to video Charlie's team talk.

"The sanctity of football changing rooms is normally jealously guarded, so to witness the manager giving final instructions to his players was a real privilege.

"It was an inspired speech and we both fancied playing ourselves afterwards!"

To see the four-part series on Chasetown FC, click here.