Harry Grant was part of Gillingham’s League 2 title winning team in the 2012-13 season and on Sunday hopes for more glory when Ascot United face Newport Pagnell Town in the FA Vase Final at Wembley

There can’t be many Gillingham fans who can name all of the title-winning squad from 2012-13.

A decade on from that famous season, one of the less well-known members of that squad will be walking out at Wembley this Sunday in the FA Vase final, hoping to add another medal to his sizeable collection.

Harry Grant might not be an instantly memorable name to the Gills fans - but he hasn’t forgotten those final few weeks of the 2012/13 season when got to play a small part in an historic season for the club.

The midfielder had joined the Gills on deadline day - then just a month before the end of the season - signed from Sheffield Wednesday by his uncle - the then Gillingham boss Martin Allen.

Weeks later, with the League 2 title secured, the Gills went to Burton in party mood. Many of the senior players watched the game with the fans as Allen threw the youngsters a chance to shine. Grant was one of them - playing 70 minutes - his one and only appearance for the club.

“How good was he?” beamed Gills manager Allen after the match - still buzzing from securing the club’s first title in 50 years just a week earlier. He was commenting on his nephew.

“Nobody would have known that was his debut, nobody even knows who he is!”

Grant’s now preparing for Sunday’s Vase final for Ascot United, who take on the 2022 winners Newport Pagnell.

He hasn’t forgotten that day: “I was knocking on the door at the back end of that season but the team was unreal. I knew I would get the opportunity once they had become champions, I knew it would come.”

Allen named his team in the days before the match - going public on his decision to include the youngsters.

“We knew we would play and it was very nerve-racking,” Grant recalled.

“It was also a proud