Levi Colwill’s own goal has sent Nottingham Forest into the Premier League in a 1-0 Championship play-off final win over Huddersfield at Wembley.
Luckless centre-back Colwill put through his own net after James Garner’s teasing cross, that Jack Colback ducked under and Ryan Yates failed to reach.
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Chelsea’s 19-year-old loanee Colwill has impressed hugely at Huddersfield and will have the chance to battle for a first-team spot at Stamford Bridge later this summer.
But the talented teenage defender ended a fine season in most miserable fashion, handing Forest a return to the big time that the City Ground men have craved for so long.
Forest were bottom of the table and winless when Steve Cooper took charge in September – now they have won football’s most lucrative match and are headed to the top tier.
Financial experts rate the Championship play-off final as worth at least £170million to the winners, and Forest will now enjoy a major cash injection to go along with the glory of a long-awaited return to the top.
Forest players like defender Djed Spence were not even born the last time the east midlanders tasted Premier League action back in 1999.
But a season that started in turmoil when Chris Hughton was sacked after seven winless matches and just one point in September, now Forest have pulled off a remarkable turnaround.
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Former Swansea boss Cooper’s transformation of this Forest squad might not have been completed in the most enticing of fashion.
But the hordes of Forest fans crammed into Wembley will not care one jot.
Carlos Corberan’s Huddersfield can count themselves hugely unlucky on an afternoon where they simply failed to fire.
But two flimsy penalty shouts aside, Corberan’s men were…
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