Eleven days after his heroics in Manchester, AFC Wimbledon goalkeeper Seb Brown has just about come back down to earth.

The Dons' shotstopper was the subject of much media attention in the hours and days following his penalty saves against Luton Town in the Conference play-off final that ensured the club completed its historic rise to the promised land of the Football League.

It is meteoric progress for the lad who stood on the terraces with his dad nine years ago when the club were formed from the ashes of the Wimbledon side moved to Milton Keynes.

"It is a crazy thing really," said Brown, who until last year was still working as a car salesman.

"Most people support the big clubs as it were and never get to play for their teams, even those they support in non-league.

"So for me to be able to play for my club and to be part of the history that took them into the Football League is beyond belief, I could not have dreamed it.

"It has been a hell of a two years for me.

"If I had thought about it in my wildest dreams, I wouldn't have thought about it like this.

"I was released in 2009, came down here on a non-contract basis not expecting to stay once Andy Little was back fit but got lucky.

"And now, this season could not have been any better for me, to be playing week in, week out, at 21 is great for my development."

In between the press interviews there has been some much-deserved partying too.

The latest was the end-of-season do at Kingsmeadow on Saturday, where the gloves the 21-year-old wore to keep out those penalties were auctioned off for £3,000 in aid of the club - a figure £1,400 more than the boots Danny Kedwell scored the winning spot-kick with.

Brown, who has also raised more than £1,600 for the Royal Marsden by conceding just one goal in three play-off games, dived to his right to save Alex Lawless' kick and then denied Jason Walker with a strong left-hand to earn his place in Wimbledon folklore, though he admits he remembers little of the moments that secured it.

"It is a bit of a blur," he said.

"It all seemed to go so quickly and I just remember thinking the clock was going really fast in extra time, it always seems to when you don't want it to.

"But I wasn't thinking about penalties, I never look any further than a minute ahead.

"When I was younger, I used to think ahead to the possibility of penalties and then the other team would score in the last minute of extra time so I don't do that anymore.

"It is only once the whistle goes that you just know everyone is looking at you and the boy taking the kick.

"I just remember going the right way and then thinking I can save this and trying to get a strong hand on it.

"I have watched the penalties a good few times since and the commentators say if Walker scored it would have given Luton the upper hand.

"That makes it sink in a little more just how important a save that was."