MILES Storey has revealed that he has barely slept this week since missing the penalty which confined Swindon Town to another season in League One.

The 19-year-old’s spot kick was saved by Simon Moore to send Brentford to Wembley and leave Town heartbroken in west London.

Storey has insisted he would take up the challenge tomorrow if Swindon were posed with another shootout to decide their fate, but at present he is finding it hard to reconcile with himself, suggesting that he feels “in debt” to the fans and the club.

In an honest and frank interview with the Advertiser, he spoke of the emotional effect one failure from 12 yards has had on him.

He said: “I haven’t got over it yet at all. I haven’t been sleeping much, I’ve hardly slept at all. It’s been three or four days and I’ve hardly slept. A lot of the time I was moping about. A lot of that was thinking about whether I’d got a contract or not so hopefully now I can try to kick on and move on from here.

“It’s been tough. When I’m with family and friends it helps out a bit but when I’m on my own, especially when I’m trying to get to sleep, I can’t do it.

“I have watched it again. It’s easy to say now after I’ve missed it but I should have had a longer run up and maybe took the leather off the ball. But I know if the opportunity came up again to take one, I’d take one again.

“I know in myself that I’d score it the next time. It’s about having the self-belief and I did at that point. It hasn’t worked out and I can’t do anything to change that.

“I’ve got my new deal now so hopefully I can repay the club and the fans. I feel at the minute that I’m in debt to the club and the fans and hopefully next season, whichever way that is - whether it’s through hard work, goals, contributions to the team, whatever I can do.”

Storey was grateful to the support of his teammates in the immediate aftermath of his miss on Monday.

In the first year of the young professional’s career, the blow was a hard one to take. However, the striker is backing himself to learn from the experience.

“I was inconsolable. All the boys were brilliant with me, they were all really supportive of me and telling me I was a man to go up and do what I did,” he said.

“I knew that myself. It took a lot for me to get up and do it but I felt confident in myself that, if I didn’t get pushed forward to do it, I’d put my name down.

“If you’re going to be man enough to take one you’ve got to be man enough to take the consequences as well.

“You know I’m a Wolves fan but at the end of the day if anything I’ve become more of a Swindon fan. To go up there with the whole club on my shoulders, I felt ready for it and I felt confident beforehand. I knew where I was going but it wasn’t to be.”