Gianfranco Zola feels guiding Watford to victory in Monday's Championship play-off final against Crystal Palace at Wembley will pretty much eclipse everything he has achieved in his career so far.
The 46-year-old has taken the Hornets to the brink of a ?120million pay-day after a dramatic semi-final victory over Leicester, secured in stoppage time after a penalty save from Manuel Almunia was followed by a last-gasp Troy Deeney winner as Vicarage Road was sent into bedlam - and saw their boss take a tumble as he ran on the pitch during the celebrations.
Zola, who returned to management last year having been sacked by West Ham in the summer of 2010, enjoyed a glittering playing career both in his native Italy and with Chelsea, where he won the FA Cup twice as well as the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1998.
However, the Hornets boss insists those experiences will be put in the shade if his side can triumph at Wembley on Monday afternoon.
"As a footballer, you feel you played at different venues in important games, and you think that you lived all the experiences in football, the good and bad ones, but as a manager it amplifies everything - that is what happened to me against Leicester, I went back 20 years. Fortunately for me it was a good feeling, and that was great," said Zola.
"I have been blessed to have enjoyed a fantastic career, with some very good moments, but to win this one would have it rated as one of the best because of everything you go through as a manager. You take in every player's emotion, positive and not positive so you live everything.
"Winning this game will be one of the most important (of my) achievements.
"As a manager, everything is multiplied, so if it happens, then it is going to be amazing and I am sure I will celebrate the same way I celebrated when we won the first FA Cup with Chelsea at Wembley."
Despite the huge financial rewards on offer for the winners, and just how it would transform the economic outlook of the Hertfordshire club, Zola insists there have been no nerves within the squad, which has been away for some warm weather training in Spain.
The Watford boss, who expects to have a near full-strength squad to choose from against Palace, will take the group for a behind-the-scenes look at the national stadium to settle them in ahead of the big day.
"I just want them to get accustomed to it - the first time I went to Wembley, I got lost in the changing rooms. It is quite complicated and you need a GPS," Zola said.
"I just want them to feel confident in the new surroundings. It is quite impressive Wembley, and they need to feel comfortable where they are going to be."
Watford are currently under a transfer embargo relating to irregularities under the club's previous owners, and have also been criticised for their extensive use of the loan market, bringing in many players from sister clubs Udinese and Granada, which are also owned by the Pozzo family.
Palace boss Ian Holloway had labelled the situation "ludicrous", but this week moved to calm the waters ahead of Monday's showdown, praising Zola as a "genius" for bringing it all together.
Zola hopes Watford's style will be what people are talking about come full-time at Wembley on Monday night.
"I know that we have been called many things, but the best one I remember is we are a very good passing team which plays football. That is the best encouragement and comment that I have had and that is what I came here for," he said.
"Our plan for this season was to play football in a certain way, not to (specifically) achieve promotion, we wanted to establish our philosophy to become a passing team of offensive football, and that is what we have become.
"I understand there have been a lot of comments because of our (financial) status, but that has been clarified and I don't think that is going to happen (again) next year, the majority of players we have on loan will be our players, and that will stop everything.
"I can understand all the comments that have been made, but it is time to move on."
QPR's relegation from the Barclays Premier League will cost the club millions of pounds in lost revenue, and likely force Fernandes to sell several of his high wage earners this summer.
Given his investment in Caterham since the Leafield-based team first entered the sport at the start of the 2010 season, it would be easy for the Malaysian entrepreneur to sell up and focus his interest on QPR.
But Fernandes insists he is in Formula One for the long haul, given the avenues it opens with regard to the future of Caterham road cars which he also owns.
"We went in with our eyes wide open and we are too far down the line with Caterham so, no, I will not be leaving," said Fernandes, ahead of this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix.
"And it's not about winning the world championship for me, it's about building a car, which has always been my dream and that's progressing quite well.
"I don't need to be world champion to sell lots of cars. I need to have a brand where people say 'I know that brand' and have a price point which allows people to aspire to own one of the cars.
"With all due respect, no-one is going to run out tomorrow and buy a McLaren or a Ferrari.
"There are not many cars on that grid you can translate into a sports car you can buy, so that's the market I'm after."
Given Caterham are still to score a point in their 63 grands prix to date, that also seemingly offers Fernandes the opportunity to say he has had enough.
But he genuinely feels improvements are being made, despite a setback last year when errors occurred with regard to development.
"Last year was a real disappointment," said Fernandes.
"I thought by this year we would definitely be in the midfield, and if we hadn't have messed up last year, we could have been.
"When John Iley (head of aerodynamics signed from McLaren) came over last year we tried to be a bit too clever with the blown diffuser and it screwed us up.
"If we had just continued on our normal path we probably would have been in the midfield by now, so we've learned the hard way.
"But on the business side it's done everything I wanted it to."
For the first time Caterham are seeing development in the wind tunnel now correctly making its way on to the car, which has resulted in an increase in downforce and in turn performance.
That was from Bahrain onwards as the team used last year's car for the opening three races, given the problems they had encountered.
"Every week we are now getting significant points (of downforce) in the wind tunnel, as opposed to what was not very aggressive growth over the first two years," said Fernandes.
"I also think we've the right people now, but would I say we are 100 per cent where we want to be? No.
"We've a nice facility in Leafield and we're going in the right direction.
"I'm not saying we are going to be world champions any time soon, but I do believe if we continue this way then we have a good chance of progressing."
The 31-year-old replaced Billy Reid on an interim basis last month and led Accies to five wins in seven First Division games.
The former Airdrie, Barnsley and Mansfield midfielder joined Accies in August 2005 and was instrumental in their promotion to the Scottish Premier League.
A statement on Hamilton's club website read: "The chairman (Les Gray) is delighted to announce that he has today reached agreement with Alex Neil to become player coach/manager on a permanent basis until the end of his current contract in May 2014.
"A further meeting will take place to discuss an extended contract as the club plan for the future."
