IN THE build-up to the final there was so much anticipation behind it. We went there feeling pretty confident.

The day before we went to the stadium to take a look, then stayed over that night to get our minds ready for the occasion and the game. It was a nice couple of days.

It’s a lovely stadium and for the fans walking up to it, that long walk I think gives you goosebumps – even as a player.

It just didn’t happen, but I enjoyed the match. We were losing, but it’s a great occasion to play at Wembley and it wasn’t meant to be.

I have great memories of the day, we had a really good team that season. To play at Wembley and see all the sights, to go to the ground in the lead up to it, to play the match in front of 70,000 people, not many get to experience that in their career.

It was a really good day apart from the result and something that I will cherish.

I saw Charlie was going through on goal, we were chasing the game, and I thought ‘this is definitely going in’. Then he hit it and I was getting ready to go and celebrate with him, but it hit a bobble and went past the post.

If it hits a bobble, it hits a bobble, there’s nothing you can do about it. It did hit a bobble.

He’s gone on to bigger and better things, but there are some of us that haven’t. He’s just got relegated out of the Premiership, but done well for himself.

We didn’t have our captain, Gordan Greer, and that was a big loss. We had a young back four, Scott Cuthbert and Lecsinel Jean-Francois, but Greer was our rock that season.

I think they scored their goal from a set-piece as well.

To not score in that game and we’d done so quite freely that season, with Charlie and Billy Paynter up front. To go and hit a blank, I couldn’t get my head around it.