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Murphy, who joined Carlisle in 2001 and is , was on the wrong side of the result at the 2003 and 2006 finals, both of which were played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

The 30-year-old was also in . In that game a needless handball from Murphy gifted Saints an early penalty that set them on their way to victory.

Murphy redeemed himself after giving away a penalty in last year's final - photo: PA

Sunday's match was an altogether happier experience for Murphy, who became a father for the first time on Friday and was the man of the match in the final.

The new-born boy does not even have a name yet - Johnstone perhaps? - but can probably claim to be the youngster person to enter a Wembley dressing room after Murphy's fiancee Lisa brought the baby down to the changing area after the final whistle.

and had planned to travel down to watch the match, risking the possibility that she could start labour while watching Murphy at Wembley.

Thankfully for all concerned, the baby arrived early, although Murphy was only able to spend an hour or so with mother and child before he left to catch up with the rest of the squad, who had already arrived in London.

The baby was born at 0739 BST after a five-and-a-half-hour labour and as Murphy boarded the train at Carlisle on Friday afternoon he intended to make full use of the pillow tucked under his arm. Alas, shortly after nodding off, the defender was awoken by someone informing him that he had sat in the wrong seat.

Murphy eventually caught up with the rest of his team-mates and, after eating dinner, crashed out at 2100 BST and did not wake for 11 hours.

Fast forward to Sunday lunchtime and the former Blackburn trainee was scoring the winning goal at Wembley.

"I cannot really put it into words," said Murphy. "It has been an unbelievable few days."

The rest of the squad had told him that he had to imitate , but when the goal went in, his mind went blank and he claims he just ran style towards the stand where his family were gathered.

Even on a day of incredible joy for Murphy there was a moment that took him back to the disaster of last year's final. As he stood on the balcony and waited to receive his medal he looked down at the pitch and noticed some of the Brentford players watching him. It reminded him that for every deliriously happy winner at Wembley there is also a dejected loser.

Nobody felt last year's defeat more keenly than Cumbrians manager Greg Abbott. Even in the warm glow of victory on Sunday the 47-year-old winced as he thought back to the hammering by Southampton.

"I still cannot explain ," said Abbott. "It is nice to be on the winning side now."

The candid Abbott admitted that he was so demoralised by his team's failure last year that he even considered whether he was cut out for management. He had built a game's room with a small bar and a pool table at his family home but, much to his wife's annoyance, did not want any photographs of last year's final on the walls. In short, he wanted to erase the day from his mind.

"All the photos in there at the moment are of goals I scored - so there are not very many," added Abbott. "But I will be putting some up of this year's final."

Last year Carlisle became caught up in the occasion. They went for a tour of Wembley the day before the match and ended up stuck in traffic, which disrupted their training schedule. This year Abbott deliberately toned down the team's preparations. The manager and his players did very little media in the build-up and dressed down in tracksuits on the day of the game.

"I tried to keep it as normal as possible, stressing to the players that they were coming here to play a football match," added the Cumbrians boss.

Sunday's match was a record sixth final in the competition for Carlisle but only their second triumph after their penalty shoot-out win over Colchester in 1997.

The Bees have now lost all three finals they have reached in the various incarnations of the JPT. Sunday's fixture was but his team arrived at Wembley on the back of three league victories, including .

Forster had no complaints with the result, acknowledging that his team had hardly forced a save from opposition keeper Adam Collin, although Jeffrey Schlupp did hit the post. Perhaps Brentford repeated the same sort of mistakes made by Carlisle in 2010.

"We thought that we had prepared the players well, that they were raring to go," said an honest and thoughtful Forster. "But they did not turn up. We will have to go away and analyse that."

Forster talked of trying to take 21 points from the remaining seven games of his team's season in the hoping of snatching a play-off place but

Carlisle are 11 points adrift of the play-offs but they will end the season satisfied that their persistence in the JPT has finally brought them another victory in the competition.

As their players waited to climb the steps and receive the trophy the television cameras zoomed in on the delighted face of Murphy.

At Wembley on Sunday he really was the daddy.

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