Nottingham Forest are back in the Premier League after 23 often painful years in the wilderness, while beaten Huddersfield were left cursing Jon Moss and VAR after a pair of penalty shouts int the second half…
1. The good news for both clubs, sets of supporters and neutrals alike came an hour before kick-off. Having missed substantial parts of the run-in, both Huddersfield assist king Sorba Thomas and Nottingham Forest striker Keinan Davis were selected in their respective starting line-ups at Wembley. In any showpiece event, it is the best-case scenario for both sides to be able to field their strongest selections.
With both Thomas and Davis taking to the field from the start for the first time in the play-offs, the stage was set for a contest between two sides who were at the national stadium thanks largely to the contributions of their returning stars.
2. That atmosphere leaves you speechless. Even watching behind a television screen from home, the full red house and packed blue and white half of the stadium blew your socks off in the build up to the big occasion. These are the sort of matches that make football worth watching. Regardless of the 90 minutes and beyond ahead, both sets of supporters made for an occasion which put the Champions League final shambles in Paris the night before to shame. This is what football is about.
3. Then came the football. And come it did; both clubs used the opening 10 minutes to set their stalls out for what they hoped was to come. The richest game in football has produced its fair share of duds as spectacles and more so many a slow start. It is only natural with such financial pressures placed on one 90 minutes of football, but the early stages of this affair saw both teams going at it and at each other in equal measure with the flair and attacking instinct we have come to expect from both Carlos Corberan’s and Steve Cooper’s sides this season.
4. Until it didn’t. A couple of Ryan Yates chances – a…
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