Jubilant boss Steve Cooper welled up with tears as he tried to describe the pride he felt to be part of Nottingham Forest's return to the Premier League.
'It's a magical football club and we've just reminded the world of that,' said Cooper after his Forest team squeezed past Huddersfield in the Championship play-off final at Wembley.
'We've been desperate for something like this and I've felt it in the last eight or nine months. I'm really proud of everybody connected with the club. It isn't about individual success. It's about the club.
'You cannot have a club with this support and this sense of belonging and it be about individuals.