Wembley Awaits! Brackley Town And Bromley Are Up Next

Ten games later, the little club from Northants are at Wembley - and they are determined to make the most of every second of it.

They aren’t alone in doing the hard yards. Bromley have spent more on petrol than than their 16,000 fans have on tickets combined!

The Ravens took in trips to Workington, Blyth Spartans, Spennymoor, Darlington and Gateshead before reaching Sunday’s final.

Brackley manager Kevin Wilkin knows whoever goes on to lift the iconic piece of silverware under the Arch would have deserved it.

“Both teams have taken some winding roads to get to Wembley,” he said. “We have had ten games, a fair few replays, and some tough old matches.

“We learned a lot about ourselves and became stronger for it. This is a huge match for us and what better way is there to bring the curtain down on a fantastic season than at the home of football?”

Of course it could have been an even better season for Brackley and their fans, with around 6,000 of them expected to be cheering on the Saints.

But they couldn’t do the first leg of what they hoped would be a great double, losing 3-0 in last Sunday’s National League North Promotion Final at Harrogate Town.

A week on, Wilkin wants to see no lasting effects of an afternoon to forget in Yorkshire.

“We have got to re-group after last weekend,” he said. “We need to find our focus and have one final push. We desperately want to end a great campaign on a high.

“We have played 61 games this season and we can’t afford to look as tired as we were at Harrogate as the Wembley pitch takes no prisoners.

“This is a fantastic group of players so I’m sure we’ll not have issues learning from the mistakes we made and pulling together for one last game.”