Four years on from his greatest achievement in football, ex-AFC Wimbledon goalkeeper Seb Brown is at a crossroads.

The 25-year-old, currently on loan at Hampton & Richmond Borough from Conference South Bromley, kept a cleansheet in a 0-0 draw with Luton Town before saving two shoot-out penalties to help the Dons back into the Football League in 2011.

He and Danny Kedwell, the man who scored the decisive penalty that day, will always be remembered as the key men in AFC Wimbledon’s Conference Premier play-off final triumph.

Carshalton-born Brown left the Dons at the end of last season having made 139 appearances for the club and now combines selling health club membership for Roko Health Club in Chiswick, with part-time football with the Beavers.

The former Cheam High School student, who signed off his spell at the Cherry Red Records stadium with a London Senior Cup triumph, admits his days of playing professional football maybe behind him.

And he reckons there may be some soul searching to do over the summer.

“The play-off final feels a long time ago now. It has been a tough three years since then and a lot has happened,” he said.

“It can be a cruel sport. One minute you are lifting trophies with AFC Wimbledon and the next minute you are down at Hampton trying to get some game time. That is football for you.

“It is getting to that point where I’m 25 years old and I’ve got to start thinking about what I’m doing with my life.

“Do I do everything to get back into a full time club or do I accept that it is not going to happen and play part-time football alongside another job?

“That is something I will have to think about over the summer, until then it is a bit of a waiting game really.

“The fact is I’m enjoying my job at the moment as it is a bit more relevant to what I want to do and I’m enjoying my football.

“It is all a bit up in the air, but it is not like being a pro when you are worried where your next contract is coming from. I have a job and the football side of things will sort itself out I hope.

He added: “You never lose that memory of something like a play-off final. It stays with you for as long as you live.

“I’ve achieved a lot in my career. A lot of players go through their career and never have that magical moment. I have already had that and everything else is a bonus.”

Despite Brown’s drop down the football pyramid he holds no grudges towards the man who took his job at Kingsmeadow – former Scotland keeper Neil Sullivan.

“Neil was my first footballing hero,” said Brown.

“I had all the goalkeeping kit with his name on when I was a kid.

“He put me out of a job when he signed for the club, but getting to work with him was like a dream come true.

“When I get to write my autobiography I think that will make a good chapter. The day my hero cost me my job.”

A second half Moussa Diarra goal gave Hampton a 1-1 draw at Billericay Town on Saturday, before goals from Brendan Kiernan and Ryan Newman all but secured Ryman Premier League safety with the 2-0 win overplay-off chasing Kingstonian at the Beveree on Monday.

Boss Alan Dowson looked on as the result put a huge dent in former club Ks’ play-off aspirations after they had drawn 1-1 with Canvey Island on Saturday.

And Brown is confident Hampton may well be fighting out at the top end of the table in the same way Dowson’s old team had done during his time at Kingsmeadow.

“It is unlikely I’ll go back to Bromley and Hampton are keen on Brentford keeper Mark Smith, so I will have to wait and see,” he said.

“Everyone in the changing room is disappointed with how things have gone this season and they know it should have been better.

“There are some new faces around and it is nice to come into a club with a bit of ambition. It is going to be a case of keeping that ambition going into next season.”