LOSING to Stevenage Borough in the FA Trophy final has left Kidderminster fans with an overwhelming sense of disappointment.

More than 20,000 made the trip via train, coach and car to Wembley in anticipation of seeing their team become the first to lift domestic honours at the new national stadium.

If only the game had finished at half-time. Harriers were two goals to the good through James Constable and looked unstoppable.

But Stevenage came out fighting and stole victory with Steve Morison's goal two minutes from time.

Alan Shepherd, chairman of the Kidderminster Harriers Independent Supporters Trust (KHIST), said: "A lot of people have said it was a game of two halves, which is an old cliché.

"We bossed them in the first-half and then we almost came out thinking we had won it.

"But they had a half-time rollicking and that made the difference. We seemed to lose our way a little bit.

"It would have been nice to be the first team to win a trophy at the new Wembley but the first to play in a domestic final is part of the record books. That's one thing they can't take away but the result will show we finished second.

"I would rather get to Wembley and lose than not get there in the first place.

"It was a good day out for everybody and it was a record crowd but although we didn't come away with the trophy we didn't come away disgraced."

Phil Smith, a fan for more than 50 years, added: "I am disappointed. We just ran out of steam in the second-half. I think we put too much into the first-half and couldn't compete in the second-half.

"We should never have surrendered it."