MY FINAL DREAM IN A WOLVES SHIRT
Grant me one final wish in a Wolves shirt - I would love to lead the team out at the Millennium Stadium on Monday.
That would be perfect for me. Take nothing away from the achievements of Dave Jones and the team - it's just a personal thing.
My one regret in football is retiring when I did. I should have carried on playing further down the leagues.
It's been four years since I knocked my playing career on the head but I never stop thinking about getting out on the pitch again.
That day when I packed up on the pre-season tour of Sweden is like yesterday.
They told me I had no cartilage left in my left knee and that it was just bone rubbing against bone. But I still play for the Wolves All Stars and the knee feels OK, I just get the odd bit of swelling sometimes.
I've only put on around half a stone since I packed in playing. I was 12st 12lbs when I finished and I'm 13st 6lbs now.
I go to the gym four or five times a week and as part of that routine I rattle off 500 sit-ups in a row. Working hard has never been a problem to me.
I just wish I could use that work ethic as a manager somewhere. I applied for the Telford job and was interviewed on the Friday but I got a call from their chairman saying 'thanks, but no thanks.'
At the moment I'm doing the 'fan' thing and that can be living hell sometimes!
When I packed in playing, I spent a season following Wolves home and away and I can tell you, the fans are desperate for some success.
Last Wednesday I was all due to go to Reading with 13 mates in a bus but something cropped up at the last minute and I couldn't go.
Instead I watched the game on a big screen at Wednesfield Conservative Club and ended up shaking like a leaf!
Fans were panicking so much saying things like 'are we going to do it?' and I have to admit it spread to me. I came out petrified!
On Thursday I went and did a talk to school-leavers at Pool Hayes school in Willenhall as part of my PR commitments with Wolves.
It puts it all into perspective a bit - here's me worrying about how we're going do in the play-offs but these kids are thinking about their futures and what they're going to do with their lives.
Earlier that day I was at Molineux to do an interview with Sky, talking about our chances and what promotion means to the club and the city.
It's interesting chatting to people outside the area and how the club is perceived.
There seems to be a feeling that should Wolves be successful they would be welcomed by the Premiership. I think people believe that Wolves would make a real go of it and compete, rather than that lot down the road!
I got an early feel to the Millennium Stadium by watching the FA Cup final in the President's Club at Molineux. We were there with friends who had won tickets at an Aynuk and Ayli comedy night.
I met up with the comic Ian 'Sludge' Lees, who became the latest in a long line of people who have badgered me for tickets to the final.
'Sludge' is a Wolves nut but I told him what I've told everyone else - I'm still trying to get my own seat sorted!
The afternoon proved more expensive than I thought though because I ended up losing a tenner after backing James Beattie to score the first goal at 8-1.
On Sunday we chilled out at a hotel in Sutton Coldfield. It was bought us as a Christmas present but we've been so busy we haven't been able to go until now.
I bumped into one of my former Wolves team-mates Tony Daley, who told me he is just finishing a sport science degree.
Unfortunately for Tony we didn't play together too often because he suffered a lot of injuries, but he's put his on and off the field experiences to good use in his studies.
He tells me it's taken four years to complete but you wouldn't find me anywhere near the classroom. I preferred to let my feet do the talking!
You won't find me tempting fate about Wolves' chances either. Last year I lost count of the number of people I told to back us to go up. We were there - or so we thought.
Then all of a sudden I realised the Baggies were catching us up. So I'm with the players - you won't find me bragging about our chances this time.
But you can't help but feel we do look stronger. You can take any player out and replace them and it doesn't weaken the team.
You look at the competition the manager has up front, with Nathan Blake, Kenny Miller, George Ndah and Dean Sturridge, and it's a pretty formidable choice.
