In the fourth round, they travelled to Elland Road and held the mighty Leeds United, then League Champions, to a heroic goal-less draw before narrowly losing the replay 0–1 due to a deflected own goal from Dave Bassett.
Only six months after achieving Football League status, Batsford resigned from Wimbledon[3] following disagreements with the club chairman, Ron Noades, and was succeeded by team coach Dario Gradi.
[5] Batsford then returned to managing in non-league football, first with a short stint at Hillingdon Borough before thriving once more with Wealdstone, whose squad included the future England international Stuart Pearce.
In the 1984–85 season, the club, now under the management of Batsford's assistant and former Wimbledon coach Brian Hall, became the first in history to achieve the non-league double of being Alliance Premier League champions and FA Trophy winners.
Batsford suffered heart trouble and decided to leave Wealdstone, but he recovered sufficiently to coach at Queen's Park Rangers, then serve as general manager of Dulwich Hamlet before running the Millwall youth team again and also acting as a talent scout for Dave Bassett during his former protégé's managerial stints with Watford, Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest.