By Pete Oliver

Yates is hoping for a similar outcome 12 years after his other Wembley visit

Twelve years on from playing for Kidderminster at the old Wembley, Harriers boss Mark Yates will lead the club out in another FA Trophy final.

Saturday's non-league showpiece will help christen the expensively rebuilt home of English football on a day to remember for the two Conference clubs taking part.

But Yates has made it clear that playing Stevenage at Wembley is not the prize and expects his players to suffer no distractions in their pursuit of the silverware.

"It's not a problem for us. We are absolutely delighted to be playing in the first cup final there," he told BBC Sport.

"It's an honour but we will not get carried away. We have got a job of work to do.

"We are going there on Friday and we will make sure we take it all in and make sure we familiarise ourselves with the surroundings as much as we can.

"I think we have got an hour to look round and we will do as much as we possibly can to take the ?wow? factor away from Saturday.

"When we arrive on Saturday lunchtime the players know it is not a time for looking out for friends and family, it?s a time for work and the game that got us there."

It will be great for the supporters and it's nice for the chairman Mark Yates

Stevenage Borough stand in Kidderminster's way of winning the competition for the second time and will start as marginal favourites, having finished two places and seven points above Harriers in the league.

But Yates believes that Wembley, which will house around 25,000 fans from each club in a crowd that could rise towards 80,000, will bring the best out of his players.

"We have had two weeks build-up and preparation. I'm happy with the quality of work we've put in and we have 90 or 120 minutes left of the season and that's what we will be focussed on. The players will be totally focussed and ready," he said.

"We won't be fazed. We have gone to places like Oxford, Dagenham, Morecambe, Exeter and Stevenage on decent surfaces and put in decent performances and got decent results.

"It's a one-off game and it?s about who copes with the conditions, the atmosphere and the occasion the best and who performs and I have players who will not be fazed."

As well as Yates, Kidderminster defender Jeff Kenna has also previously played at Wembley during his days with Southampton.

"I am sure that will help," Yates added. "Older players are good in the dressing room but I have no fear about my younger players. To be honest, younger players don?t feel fear. They express themselves and do what they do."

For Yates it is all about the present with no looking back at his appearance in the 1995 final against Woking - or Kidderminster's previous success 20 years ago - as he looks to keep moving the Aggborough club forward.

"It's not about history," he said. "That's not being disrespectful to anything that Kidderminster have done in the past but it's about a squad of players putting in a performance on Saturday and putting in a performance they can be proud of and hopefully getting the Trophy back to Kidderminster.

"It will be great for the supporters and it's nice for the chairman because we have had a couple of years where the club has suffered a little bit. It's nice for people like that and I hope everybody enjoys it."

Lack of consistency

Kidderminster's return to the Trophy is in fact a reflection of their recent struggles with their relegation from the League in 2005 bringing a return to the non-league ranks after a five-year gap.

Their first season back in the Conference was a disappointment - a second successive relegation remained a threat until Yates returned to the club where he had played for six years.

The former Birmingham City midfielder, 37, who had been coaching at Burnley, led them away from trouble 12 months ago.

This season has represented further progress, even if a lack of consistency and goals hampered a sustained play-off push.

Trophy success would signal a return to better days but Yates wants the cup run to represent a stepping stone rather than the pinnacle of the club's ambitions.

He said: "Going out of the League was a disappointment for the club. When I took the job on I knew it was not something that was going to happen overnight.

"We had to address one or two things, which we have done, and bring in a better quality of player.

"This has been a step in the right direction. The players have shown they can do it and they have to take the belief from the cup games and put it into practice on a more consistent basis in the league next season."