Levi Colwill sits behind a table at Chelsea's training ground and leafs through his catalogue of Wembley memories.
The time the Chelsea defender first stepped out of the tunnel in a final, not as a player but as an 11-year-old mascot for non-league Sholing when his uncles Barry, Bryan and Marvin beat West Aukland Town to lift the FA Vase.
He remembers, too, making his playing debut there eight years later, a day that ended far less euphorically as his own goal in the Championship play-off final for Huddersfield sent Nottingham Forest into the Premier League.
There was the disappointment of being left on the bench for Brighton while on loan last season for the FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United. More joyous was making his England bow at Wembley in October against Australia.
Colwill remembers, too, driving there with his dad to watch Chelsea, the club he joined aged eight, beat Tottenham in the League Cup final in 2015. He remembers playing against Spurs academy that morning. He remembers John Terry leading out the team. He remembers the pitchside flames.
What he didn't remember was Mauricio Pochettino was in charge of Tottenham that day. 'Was he?!' asks Colwill in a tone that suggests he'll be reminding his boss of that when he next sees him. 'Up the Chels!'
'To be in a similar position now, is amazing,' he adds. 'I wouldn't have believed it when I was little kid.'
He'll make another memory this afternoon when he walks out at Wembley to face Liverpool in the League Cup final and he'll draw on all the ones that went before.
'Walking out with all of my uncles for Sholing and seeing all of our family there, that meant a lot,' says Colwill. 'I was so young and they were so proud. You could feel the excitement and the
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