Here's a quiz question for you, which three players who featured in the FA Trophy final in 2008 are set to be appearing in FA Vase action next Saturday?
As you've probably guessed it all three of those players appeared for Torquay United against Ebbsfleet United.
And those three players are Kevin Hill and Lee Phillips, who are set to star for South West Peninsula League side Exmouth Town in their Buildbase FA Vase tie against Blackfield and Langley of the Wessex League who can count former Gulls striker Tim Sills amongst their numbers.
During the 2007-08 season, Sills and Phillips led the line for Torquay in their first season as a Conference club and Sills finished the campaign as the Gulls' top scorer with 23 goals - whilst Phillips found the back of the net 12 times before joining Rushden & Diamonds in the following summer.
A year later, Sills would score the second of United's two goals in their 2-0 Conference Play-off final victory over a Cambridge United side that included Phillips, and in 2014 he was part of the Gosport Borough side that lost to the U's in the FA Trophy final.
For Hill the 2007-08 campaign proved to be the final campaign of his 11 years at Plainmoor, which started in 1997 when he made the move to United from Western League side Torrington.
The FA Trophy final marked his 474th appearance for the Gulls, which saw him eclipse the long standing club appearance record previously held by Dennis Lewis before he joined Dorchester Town.
For all three players, the Vase represents one final shot at glory and it is not beyond the realms of possibility that one, or even two, of these players could be lining up under the Wembley Arch at the end of the season.
