Senior prepares for proudest moment of his career so far – leading Town out for ‘fairytale’ FA Trophy final
There'll be no-one prouder than Jack Senior when FC Halifax Town walk out at Wembley on Sunday, writes Tom Scargill.
The Halifax-born defender looks set to captain The Shaymen in their FA Trophy final against Gateshead in what he says will be the biggest game of his career by far.
Senior is coming to the end of his third season at the club, and is set to form part of Town's back three in the game.
"As the occasion's come closer, the more it's taken over my thoughts and the more I'm thinking about it," he said.
"I wake up thinking about it and go to bed thinking about it.
"But it's the right balance that you're going about it the right way and you're thinking positively about it.
"What it means for me personally, it means everything to me.
"It'd be a bit of a fairytale in that I used to watch (Halifax) as a kid and then when I first signed, I was then walking out where I was watching all those years ago.
"I've got so many friends from school who watch week in, week out who are coming.
"A couple of friends, halfan-hour after the Altrincham game, said 'booked a 60-seater'. They used to sit next to me when we watched them back in the Vardy days.
"It'd mean everything to me to win it, it'd just be one of the proudest moments of my life.
"Right now, you're just making sure everything's right because there's still time until we walk out on that pitch and there's a lot of preparing mentally and physically, so we're making sure we do everything right so when the whistle blows, we're clear in what we want to do."
Senior is set to captain the team due to skipper Tom Clarke probably being on the bench, alongside vice-captain Jordan Keane.
"Honestly, I don't know what I'll be thinking until I'm there," Senior said of leading the team onto the pitch.
"The feeling of walking out and hearing the fans roar, I've got goosebumps talking about it now and I know for a fact I'll have goosebumps.
"They're the type of moments where you want to be in the moment and you don't want to let it pass you by because they're feeling you'll never forget in your life.”