WEMBLEY finals and a spell in the Football League are the highlights in Harriers’ 125-year history.

But what about the countless characters – both on and off the pitch – who have helped make the club the success it is today?

“There’s certainly been plenty of them,” says Aggborough president Colin Youngjohns.

People like Hitchens, Wassall, Casey, Allner, Molby, Gamson and Mercer to name just a few.

Gerry Hitchens, who played for Harriers in the 1950s en route to England stardom, is arguably the club’s greatest product.

“He went to the top very easily. He’d so much energy, pace and ability.

"He scored a goal against Brazil in the 1962 World Cup and it doesn’t get any better than that,” recalls Colin.

Colin also has fond memories of two other former Harriers hot-shots – brothers Peter and Brendan Wassall.

Striker Peter bagged 448 goals between 1963 and 1974 while midfield general Brendan (1962-1974) notched 269.

Colin says, with a smile: “Peter was to me like Diego Maradona is to Argentinian football. I’m sure he wasn’t or he’d have gone further in the game!“I was privileged to know him. And, of course, Brendan was a tremendous player. But I felt he was majorly undervalued by some supporters of the day.” Colin also rates Kim Casey and Paul ‘Ocker’ Davies as two of the best strikers to have graced Aggborough. Casey bagged a record 73 goals during the 1985-6 season.

“He was the best finisher at the level we play at.

His record shows that,” says Colin, who is equal in his praise for Davies, whose tally of more than 300 goals included two in Harriers’ 2-1 FA Trophy final replay victory over Burton Albion in 1987.

“Ocker’s a legend. He’s a local lad and one of the greatest players in the club’s history.

”Harriers have played on Wembley’s hallowed turf three more times in the final of the Trophy, losing 2-1 to Wycombe Wanderers in 1991 and by the same score against Woking in 1995.

They also graced the new Wembley when they took on Stevenage Borough in the first competitive cup final in 2007.

Watched by a record final crowd of 53,262, James Constable’s brace put Harriers 2-0 up before Stevenage roared back to win 3-2.

Behind every outstanding team is an outstanding manager – and Graham Allner certainly fell into that category in the 1980s and 1990s as he guided Harriers to one honour after another.

“He was not only the best manager the club’s ever had, but he was one of the best managers in the game at this level,” says Colin.

Colin feels former Liverpool legend Jan Molby deserves full credit for taking Harriers into the Football League where they remained from 2000 to 2005.

Their highest finish was tenth in 2002 in the then Third Division.

“Jan was probably the best footballer I’ve ever had anything to do with,” he says. “He was a world-class player. As a manager he understood the game.”

Two greats in Harriers’ behind-the-scenes team were long-serving secretaries Ted Gamson and Ray Mercer.

Gamson, who collapsed and died shortly before a match at Aggborough in 1968, had a great reputation throughout football.

“Everybody revered him,” says Colin, who still uses the tag of “Mr Kidderminster” when referring to Mercer, who died in 1995. “He was a great personality and never made any enemies.”