The superfan has seen four more Finals to take him up to 200 games for the season. He was one of 89,874 in the Wembley drizzle and part of more modest crowds at three Greater London Women's Football League Finals at Bedfont.

There was a stiff northerly wind with the sunshine on Sunday, but I won’t be complaining about the cold after nearly being roasted alive during The FA Vase Final. The Orchard, home to Bedfont FC of the Combined Counties League, was hosting a triple-header of women’s games and I counted 63 spectators in the ground as Hemel Hempstead Town and Flamingoes kicked-off the Russell Cup Final at 11.00 a.m.

Hemel had notched 35 goals in their five games en route to the Final and they were 2-0 up in the first four minutes on Sunday. It finished 7-2 in their favour, as they kept up their seven goals a game average, and I saw two extraordinary things. In the 22nd minute, the referee headed the ball while it was in play and in the 64th minute a Flamingoes player asked for some unusual assistance from a relative in the stand.

No, the ref wasn’t hit in the head by the ball – he actually headed it. He was near the centre circle when a player very close to him headed the ball down. He had minimal time to react as it bounced up and instinctively headed it up into the air and behind him. It happened in a split second and most people in the ground probably hadn’t noticed it.

In the second incident a Flamingoes player, who’d had a reasonable game in midfield, ran over to the touchline in front of the stand. To a lady sitting in the front row, surely her mum, she said: "Quickly! Touch my feet and bless them!"

The lady duly stepped forward to do the blessing. But it didn’t help her performance – two minutes later she fell to the ground clutching her left foot, with no other player near her, and crawled theatrically over to her team’s bench to receive prolonged attention. She took no further part in the match.

The other two games, at 1.00 p.m. and 3.00 p.m., finished Leyton 2-1 Enfield Town Reserves in the League Challenge Cup Final and Panthers Reserves 3-0 Acton Sports Club Reserves in the Sue Sharples Memorial Trophy Final. It was a very enjoyable day of football and at the end I certainly didn’t feel I’d been there for more than six hours.

Saturday’s showpiece at Wembley was my 36th FA Cup Final match, including replays. The first was Arsenal v Liverpool in 1971 and the first I watched on black and white TV was Wolves v Blackburn in 1960, played a week after my ninth birthday. I thought Pompey deserved to win, but Katherine Jenkins should’ve got the 'Man of the Match' award.