It was quite simply the best day of my footballing career.

I have been proud to play for my country and to help take Bermuda further than they have been before and I have been involved in promotions with both Manchester City and my other clubs, but Sunday's final match of the season, a 3-1 win over Portsmouth, provided me with my most memorable day since taking up the game.

From the time we arrived at Maine Road to the end of the game it was fantastic.

Even getting out the car in the club car park was mayhem. Normally, when you arrive there are 20 to 30 people wanting autographs and photos but on this occasion the crowds were huge.

People were wanting their shirts signed and so forth and it was clear the day meant a lot to them.

I just thought ‘Blimey, I've got all this to go through again on the way back!'

At the end of the game we did two laps of honour, one with the players' families and the other with the other members of the club staff.

I have never known anyone do two laps of honour but we were actually thinking of doing a third!

The game was also a special moment for our veteran defender Stuart Pearce who was retiring from playing at the end of it.

He had scored 99 goals throughout his career and just before the final whistle he had a chance to make it 100 when we were awarded a penalty.

The script couldn't have been written any better and it looked certain that he would get his century.

But first things first, you need to hit the target and unfortunately Stuart put the ball over the bar!

Although you might have thought the day was about Stuart from what the papers had been saying, it was more about all of us so his miss was soon forgotten about as we celebrated what we had achieved.

He is now involved in talks over a coaching role at the club and I think he will eventually take up the chairman's offer.

‘Psycho', as he is known, has tremendous leadership qualities and determination to win and I'm sure he has a lot to pass on to other players.

He may want to go on and become a manager himself one day, but I think he could do far worse than to stay at City in a coaching capacity for a year or two.

Many great players have gone on to take on management roles at clubs in the First Division and have ended up at four or five different teams.

If he wants to become a really good manager and a top coach, someone like our gaffer, Kevin Keegan, I think he will do far better to hang around Maine Road for a while.

When he's done that he can then make the break and say ‘Yes, I'm ready for the challenge'.

As I said before, this has been a fabulous season.

The fact that I scored 32 times, the most since coming to England, and that none of them were penalties and through doing so had played a major part in our promotion means it has to be right up there at the top as far as achievements are concerned.

I didn't set out to score that many goals. The target I set myself was actually 25, a total I felt I was capable of reaching.

Once there though it became a case of ‘how many more can I get?'

From 25, I wanted to get to 29, which was my previous highest total and when I did that every one after that was a bonus.

Scoring on the last day of the season in front of my home crowd meant a lot.

I had thought about previous seasons where I have tended to score in the second to last game and I was conscious about wanting to score against Portsmouth.

I had wanted to score the 108th goal, which broke the record for the number of goals City have scored in the league, but that honour went to Jon Macken.

But it was more important just to get to my name on the scoresheet and for it to become a part of City's history.

The season is now over and we can look forward to playing in the Premiership next year, but my work is not done just yet.

I have enrolled on a coaching course and will be travelling to Birmingham to study at the end of the month.

I want to do it so that when the time comes to pack in playing I will have qualifications that will give me the option of coaching.

The course is a fast-track for experienced players, ones who have been in the game for more than five years or who have played internationally.

At the end of the course, if I pass, I will come away with a UEFA B licence.

As I say it's just a case of me wanting to give myself a number of options when the time comes.

I left Bermuda at the end of high school and, in a sense, have never really had a proper job.

Before coming to England I went to school in America and when I came back on a Thanksgiving break I was offered the trials at Manchester United.

As a result I haven't had a 9 to 5 job since.

I am keen to learn and to that end when I return after our break I am also going to enrol on a marketing course.

Now that the season is over my wife has told me it's ‘family time'. Fortunately we will have quite a long break because of the World Cup but although it will give me a chance to spend some time with my girls, football won't be too far from my thoughts as I will be very interested to see how some of my team-mates, such as Paulo Wanchope for Costa Rica, get on for their respective countries.