WHEN David Dunn walks off the Ewood Park pitch as a Blackburn Rovers player for the 378th and final time today, he will do so with more moments to remember than regrets.

But if he could turn back the clock he would change two things. Firstly he would become the second Dunn to play at Wembley and secondly he would erase the recollection of the painful 2-1 derby defeat to Burnley at Ewood Park in March last year.

It was the first time that Rovers had lost to their bitter rivals in 35 years.

And Dunn, so often the scourge of the Clarets, said: “If there is one major down then it is that loss to them last year.

“I felt we were very much in control and, very much like this season, we lacked the game-management to kill it off.

“It was very hard to take.”

Dunn, though, has more happy memories than sad when it comes to playing Burnley, with his goals in the 2009/10 encounters between the sides earning Rovers two cherished victories and his dramatic injury-time equaliser snatching the most dramatic of home draws in March 2013.

He insists, though, they do not compare to the First Division promotion success in 2001 and the Worthington Cup final win over Tottenham Hotspur at the Millennium Stadium the following year.

“My best memories are getting promoted at Preston – and the days that followed that! – and the Worthington Cup final,” said the one-capped England international.

“It’s just a shame we didn’t get through those FA Cup semi-finals, particularly the second one because I have always wanted to play at Wembley.

“We got to the Worthington Cup final and it was at the Millennium, my England debut was at Villa Park because Wembley was getting done, we got to the semi-final of the FA Cup (in 2007) at Old Trafford but the following year it was at Wembley, and then we’ve had two chances to get there since by getting through to the FA Cup quarter-finals.

“I don’t think I’m destined to play at Wembley but my cousin, Clive, played there, for Colne and Clitheroe, in the FA Vase finals, so at least one of our family has.”