The Wycombe skipper also looks at a night watching wrestling before paying tribute to Alan Ball.

Hi everyone.

Mathematically we can still make the play-offs, but realistically I think our chance has gone.

We needed to beat Darlington on Saturday. We started really well and were playing well. It was almost too easy, perhaps that was the problem. It was almost a case of how many goals we were going to get. We took our foot off the pedal after taking the lead and slowed the pace down.

I was involved in our first goal. We were not playing in a rigid formation which allowed me to drop deeper and pick up the ball. Matt Bloomfield was playing on the right, I slid the ball behind the defence for him to go through and score. It was a nice moment for him because he has not scored as many goals as he would have liked.

A defensive error let them back into the game. That really lifted them. They then went 2-1 ahead when one of their players picked up the ball on the halfway line and ran at us. We backed off and they scored from it. Jermaine [Easter] pulled us back to 2-2 but they won it with a superb goal. It was a poor defensive header but their guy volleyed it in from 20 yards.

We have been making quite a few defensive mistakes recently. One of the reasons for that is we don't have a recognised centre-half at the club who is fit. People have been filling in and you appreciate that as a player, but I'm sure that if we had brought a centre-half in during the transfer window then we would have got into the play-offs. It's easy to say that in hindsight. We were trying to get someone in at the last minute, but we didn't manage to in the end.

Centre-half is such an important position. There's not much experience in the back-four, or five if you include the goalkeeper. That makes the centre-half all the more important. He's the person who holds the defensive unit together.

We are five points off the play-offs now with six points to play for. We play MK Dons on Saturday. That's a massive game for them. It's something of a local derby for us. Being our last home game, we also want to give the fans something to make them feel positive for next season. For the players that are in the team, many of them are playing for their future at the club. They will have to impress the manager enough to convince him to keep them.

We will keep going and we want to win our remaining two games, but I don't think that will be enough. It's disappointing. Promotion was the aim before the start of the season. No-one would have expected us to reach the Semi-Finals of the League Cup. I don't think we can blame the cup run on our form, we just have not been able to cope with injuries. We have a small squad of first team players.

Away from football, I took two of my kids - Kelsey and Bayleigh - to the wrestling at the NEC on Monday night. We were quite close to ringside, but the row in front of us was full of Coventry players. A few of them had brought their kids, like my old Watford team-mate Robert Page who now plays for Coventry, but most of them had come on their own.

One of them, Elliott Ward, looked as if he had bought half of the merchandise store. He had the T-shirt, sweatbands, cap - everything my eight and nine year old had, Elliott had! Elliott is about 6ft 4ins and was taking photos all night. He was really getting into it!

My kids loved it. I enjoyed it too. It's not sport though, it's just entertainment. The wrestling itself is actually quite boring, but the way they play with the crowd and their ring entrances were entertaining. The finale with the Undertaker was brilliant!

I was sorry to hear about Alan Ball's death. I was driving in my car on Wednesday when I heard it on the radio. It's very sad. He was only 61 - that's very young. I saw some pictures of his children in the paper. They are too young to have lost their father. It's very sad for the family, particularly as they have lost their mother too. I guess the only positive is that Alan got to experience something only a handful of people have ever done.

I'm not just saying it, but he was one of the best after-dinner speakers I have ever heard. He spoke at a Watford club do I was at. Most after-dinner speakers just talk about everything they have done in the game, but he just focused on the World Cup Final and the relationship he had with his father. It was absolutely intriguing.

Who do you think would be your ideal strike partner to suit your game if you could pick anyone in the world, past or present?
Graeme Lloyd
I have always played as the number one striker - the one who tries to win the challenges and the headers. I have never played off another striker, so perhaps playing with Drogba or Shearer would have been interesting.

I was wondering out of all the goals you have scored throughout your career, which has been your favourite?
Andy Wilson
That would be the one I scored in front of the Kop at Anfield. It was my first goal in the Premier League too. I remember it well. It was a free-kick from Peter Kennedy. He put it into the box, our two centre-halves Robert Page and Mark Williams went for it but it fell to me six yards out. I side-footed it in. [Sander] Westerveld got a touch but it went in. I still get ribbed for my celebration. I just ran off, with the lads on my back, shouting 'I've just scored at the Kop end'. We ended up defending really well and Chris Day, our keeper, made some great saves. It was our first win in the Premier League in only our third game. People were saying we were not going to get one win all season, but we won at Liverpool, then beat Bradford - two wins in a week. I got the goal against them too, so it was a good week for me.

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