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Championship play-off final: Swansea City's Freddie Woodman aims to 'repay family debt'

Freddie Woodman has carried a play-off final winner's medal with him throughout Swansea City's season.

The plan, Woodman says, is to "repay a family debt".

The medal, which is kept in Woodman's washbag, is from the 1997 Third Division play-off final, when Swansea were beaten by a last-minute free-kick scored by Northampton's John Frain.

It belongs to Woodman's father Andy, who kept a clean sheet that day for the Cobblers.

"It's the famous footballer takes washbag everywhere thing, although mine doesn't carry my hair gel, it carries my dad's play-off medal," Woodman says.

"It's such a long season, I think you can lose sight of what you are playing for.