MAROUANE FELLAINI began the season creating history – now he wants to end it in the same manner.

Fellaini became Everton’s club record signing when making a deadline-beating £15million move from Standard Liege in September.

The midfielder is the first to admit life was initially difficult at a different club, in a different league in a different country.

But from those shaky first steps, the 21-year-old has blossomed into a first-team regular under David Moyes and is regarded as one of the best pieces of transfer business in the Premier League this season.

And now Fellaini is in line for another landmark achievement tomorrow when Everton take on Chelsea in the FA Cup final at Wembley.

"If I’m selected I will be the first Belgian ever to start in an FA Cup final, and that gives me a great feeling," he says. "I hope I can make a bit of history, it would be good to represent my country like that."

Both Nico Claesen and Philippe Albert came on as substitutes in Cup finals, but neither finished on the winning side.

And of the prospect of becoming the first Belgian to win the FA Cup, Fellaini adds: "It would be an amazing end to an amazing season for me, and I have to admit I am surprised how well it has gone, because the first few months I came into English football, I thought, wow, this is a completely different world.

"At the end of this season I am more tired than I have ever been at the end of a football year. It is higher tempo, higher intensity, higher demands all round. It is so hard, and I felt it in my first few months."

Fellaini has become a cult figure among the Goodison faithful, as much for his distinctive afro as his performances on the field with Fellaini wigs doing a roaring trade in the build-up to tomorrow’s final.

Even without his luxuriant coiffure, the Belgian was in danger of overshadowing his good work early on with 10 bookings in his first 20 games, earning a suspension that ruled him out of the double header against Liverpool.

Since then, however, Fellaini has been booked just three times in his next 16 games and has seen his game further develop with five goals in his last 10 outings having played part of the campaign as a makeshift striker as Everton’s injury crisis took hold.

And he admits: "It has been a huge learning curve for me, I came into something that, if I’m honest, I didn’t feel could possibly go so well as it has.

"It was so hard at first. The first two months were the hardest, a new town, a new culture, and of course a new type of football. It is another world here, it really is world’s apart from anything I am used to, and I’m proud that I have managed to cope with it so quickly.

"Winning the cup would be the icing on the cake for me. We have worked so hard to get here, and now we have 90 more minutes work to finish it off.

"This is the most prestigious cup final in the world, and I’m sure I will be feeling that when Saturday comes around."