1. v Newham 3-2  Southern Counties Cup Final, 1993

Fearful tales of Newham's giant centre forward, 'Amos', proved to be completely correct. After 'Jack' Drew had put us 2-0 up early on, Amos created havoc, scoring twice and forcing two more players to retire injured. With the roar of 'Glawster', 'Glawster', ringing in the teams ears, a great move down the right ended with 'Kes' Rogers appearing out of the top left corner of the video to score the winner with four minutes left. If you could bottle the complete and absolute joy of that moment and the next 30 minutes (or was it days?), you could sell it for a million. Utter, utter delirium.

2. v St Albans 2-1  Southern Counties Cup Final, 2003

This game is second only because I fear time might be playing tricks when recollecting  1993. Having already been beaten by St Albans in the Witney Cup semi final and having to make the trip to Clarence Park  to play the game, the omens were maybe against us. But winning the toss to use the 'palatial' home changing room was the beginning of our change of luck. After a goaless first half, captain Scott Montgomery gave us the lead eight minutes after the break, but the soaking  up of  relentless St Albans pressure showed this team at their resilient best. A minute into injury time - Campbell's save, Dean's set up and Twyman's finish brought bedlam to the Gloucester ranks and the host's consolation with the last kick of the game took not one bit of gloss off a magnificent day. Glorious, just glorious.

3. v Plymouth 1-0 Jersey Final, 1996

Possibly the best quality game we've every been involved in. Plymouth's only defeat of the season in their last match, courtesy of Andrew Noakes' second half strike. A draw would probably have been a fair result, but the memory is the quality. It was no good, you didn't want it to finish - even though we were one up. I've never been as contented on a beach before or since, than at Greve de Lecq that afternoon - until 'Beast' decided to sneak off and try to climb a 100 foot cliff. Some celebration! If there really is a heaven, I visited it that day. Utopia. 

4. v Oxford City 2-2 Southern Counties Cup Semi Final, 1991

Four days after returning from an exhausting Jersey week we found ourselves 2-1 down and on our way out of the Southern Counties Cup. With 2 minutes left we switched Shayne Bradley from left midfield to right wing. Sixty seconds later he cut inside and from just outside the corner of the penalty area, struck an exocet into the the top far hand corner, provoking our one and only (minor) spectator /substitutes pitch invasion. Rumour has it they were trying to avoid Lin Harvey charging down the touchline at the time. Likely story! Exhaustion 

5. v High Wycombe 2-0 Southern Counties Cup Final, 1991

After another last minute equaliser in the replay of the above game - we eventually qualified for our first Southern Counties Final. It wasn't spectacular - more a case of an extremely good side winning well. Will Steadman gave us an early lead, but Colin Russell's clincher was a great goal, starting with Sammy Harris at full back. The game completed 2 years of unprecedented success - and well and truly put us on the Schools' Football map! Justice.

6. v Thurrock 2-0 Jersey Final, 1990

Our first visit to the Channel Islands ended with Gloucester in the first place play off against a Thurrock side who'd won all five of their group games. Playing with the wind in the first half, Steve Badham and Craig Williams put us two up at half time with a couple of spectacular efforts. The second half performance against the gale was outstanding, Matt Gregg had only one save to make, Internet correspondent Dave Hickey was brilliant and we celebrated with Pomagne at the end. I celebrated a little longer a little later on. Disbelief .

7. v Deeside 1-0, 1989

A promising opening to the season really bore fruit with our first ever victory over a Deeside team with Michael Owen as their rampaging centre forward - and the only time we ever beat them on their own ground. The previous season our visit to Queensferry had resulted in a six goal thrashing, so for goalkeeper Matthew Gregg who had played in that particular defeat, this was a very sweet moment. Richard Hayward grabbed the winner midway through the second half, thus making himself the subject of one of my favourite photographs.     Utter Joy..

8. v Bishop Auckland 4-0 Jersey Festival Group B, 1999

This game gets a mention because we played so well. Some of the performance last season from a perfectionist point of view were outstanding and the second half of this match summed that up. Lee Worgan, Ryan Hughes (an absolute beauty) and Carl Brown (2) scored the goals - all in the second period - and there could have been several more. John Blenkinsopp, the Auckland manager of many years standing and a man not renowned for either his speeches or his compliments said afterwards, "You were brilliant today." And he was right. Satisfaction.

9. v Deeside, 1987

Deeside's first ever visit to Gloucester. To cut along story short, we were two down in front of a big crowd within 58 seconds to the quickest and most professional looking side we had ever come across. Quick calculations revealed a final score of 122-0 if that scoring rate was maintained, but we settled down and were level by half time thanks to Jason Merrett and a Neil Mustoe free kick. With eight minutes remaining, Chris Leek amazingly  put us ahead, but Deeside equalised with four minutes left to tie up a games which had just about everything. Sales of Grecian 2000 doubled over the next few days and if we had known what the next twelve years would have in store, we'd have invested heavily in the grey hair share market.

10. v Woodley & Earley 0-0 Southern Counties Cup Semi Final, 1993

An evening kick off on a municipal pitch totally devoid of grass on the outskirts of Reading. There was one chance for each team in normal time and no chances for either side during extra time. You wouldn't want to watch the 'action' on video - unlike the final (see match No 1) - but this was as tense as they get. Only one thing mattered - and we achieved it by winning the replay 3-0 at Kingsholm. That was another memorable night. Relief.