Charlton seal Championship spot after beating Leyton Orient in playoff final

London pride flowed southeast rather than east. Charlton’s Valley rather than Leyton Orient’s Brisbane Road will be a Championship venue next season. A free-kick from Macaulay Gillesphey proved enough, continuing the comeback trail for his manager, Nathan Jones. In the aftermath, as is his way, Jones thanked his Lord by screaming thanks to the skies. His team had proven his self-belief in his qualities as a manager when many others have doubted him.Wembley had been a sea of the red of both teams, rocking with noise in the lunchtime sun. Two clubs who have suffered while many of the capital’s clubs thrive had a chance to put things right again. Jones, after his troubled, misfiring, misunderstood spell at Southampton has been explicit that completing this mission was something akin to redemption. Opposite number Richie Wellens, an experienced lower league campaigner, a Wembley winner with Salford in the EFL Trophy, will just have to go again. Continue reading...

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