Hereford United defender Ryan Green is desperate to make up for missing out on playing in the 2006-07 Johnstone's Paint Trophy Final by helping the Bulls reach Wembley in this season's competition.

A Southern Area semi-final tie at home to Milton Keynes Dons, the 2008 Trophy Final winners, awaits Hereford on Tuesday evening with Green battling to get over an injury that kept him out of Saturday's 3-1 League 2 defeat at Macclesfield Town.

It was a freak injury that ruled him out of what was the last Trophy Final to be played at the Millennium Stadium, where he could only watch from the stands as his then team Bristol Rovers lost 3-2 in a thrilling encounter with Doncaster Rovers.

"I got injured in a game at Grimsby," recalled Green. "As I was clearing the ball my boot caught an opponent's studs and my foot was cut right to the bone - not a pretty sight, and it cost me badly in terms of missing the Final."

Green was out of action for 10 weeks but then, two months after making his comeback, he made up partly for missing out on a Trophy medal by playing at Wembley as Rovers beat Shrewsbury 3-1 in the League 2 Play-Off Final.

"After the frustration of the whole experience around the Trophy Final," said Green, "it was great to step out at Wembley and without any doubt that Play-Off Final was one of the best days of my life."

Now the 29-year-old Wales international, who when he made his debut for his country broke Ryan Giggs' record as the youngest player to be awarded a senior Welsh cap (the record is now held by Bristol City's Lewin Nyatanga), wants a Wembley return.

In the Area semi-final Hereford, relegated at the end of last season and 17th in the League 2 table after two successive defeats, will be the underdogs as they face an MK Dons team lying seventh in League 1 following Saturday's 2-1 win at Leyton Orient.

The Dons had lost four and drawn the other one of their previous five League outings, however, and Green said: "This is a game we know can win although we obviously also know that MK Dons will be favourites.

"We've got home advantage and that could be crucial. MK's form was poor before Saturday whereas we've been doing pretty well at home, so we'll go into the game with confidence and hopefully I'll be fit and back in the team.

"I've been playing with a dead-leg that turned into a strain and that's what ruled me out on Saturday. But if I'm passed fit and selected I'll be itching to play - especially with Wembley only two ties away."

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