Thursday May 15 2008 08:18
Hull City boss Phil Brown tried to play down the celebrations after the final whistle of his side's convincing play-off semi-final victory over Watford.
The Tigers powered to a 4-1 victory at the KC Stadium to complete a 6-1 aggregate success, but Brown is aware that there is one more game to come, with a Wembley date with Bristol City ahead.
Brown said: "I feel like I'm putting a dampener on it when we haven't done the job yet.
"It's great getting to Wembley and it's one of the milestones that we needed to achieve and we've achieved it.
"But as I've said before, nobody remembers a losing finalist. We've got go there now with a game-plan and finish the job.
"I take my hat off to (Watford manager) Adrian Boothroyd. He came here with a game-plan and an attitude to never say die.
"I listened to everything he had to say before the game and I couldn't see a chink in the armour and then all of a sudden they get a goal.
"We weren't winning our individual battles at that stage and that concerned me. It was 35 minutes on the clock before we actually went into a challenge. Then the last ten minutes of the first half were significant in the game.
"Nick Barmby got the goal that settled us down and for me the second-half performance was so powerful, I was really proud of the players."
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