Ex-Albion defender Kerry Mayo says helping keep them in the Football League meant so much to him.

Mayo made 413 appearances for Albion in his 14-year spell at the club.

The full-back who was a fan of the club explained how his greatest memory of his time at the club was helping to keep them up in his debut season in 1997.

Asked for the highlight of his Albion playing days,m he said: “It would probably be the final whistle at Hereford, which saw us maintain our Football League status for the club.

“There was so much more to it from a personal point of view when I made my debut, we were 11 points clear of the bottom when only one team went out of the Football League and one joined it from the Conference.

“To have my debut as a fan of the club, a supporter of the club watching from the stands, I just wanted to do everything I could to try and maintain the club status in the Football League.

"It was a tough time with the debt the club was in, the end of the Goldstone Ground and everything else that was going on at the time it was a really negative time for the club and I just want to do as much as I could to help.

“When the club got taken over by Dick Knight and his team, obviously the Blooms were involved then as well and Steve Gritt came in and did a wonderful job as the manager to get us to that last point of the season, where we beat Doncaster at home the very last game at the Goldstone."

Mayo added: “It meant we went into the final game away to Hereford knowing a draw would be good enough for us to stay up, but Hereford needed to win.

“It is quite surreal how it all ended up going to that final game and it hasn’t been done since, well not that I can remember.

“The game itself going in 1-0 down at half time and me scoring the own goal, I just wanted the ground to swallow me up and it was right in front of the travelling fans, so it was not one to remember.

“Then in second half Robbie Reinelt scored and it was pandemonium when that final whistle went.

“It was mixed emotions. We were so happy and relieved, drained physically and then the reality kicks in when we are walking off the pitch that where there is a winner there has to be a loser and you're looking at the faces on the players of the Hereford in tears.

“It was just one of those to remember personally.”

Mayo also told The Argus what he is up to now.

He said: “I was scouting football matches, but now I am doing business telecoms, which is good for me as I can work from home.

“I have also got the mobile app on the laptop and I can still work and help businesses or anyone in need to get in touch with me.

“Also, I have got an app out at the moment  which is for grassroots and non-league where they can video games, capture highlights. It is called sport.video.”