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Hull emerged from the chaos of the Championship play-offs to beat Middlesbrough in the ‘Spygate’ final at Wembley and seal a return to the Premier League.
Oli McBurnie struck in the fifth minute of stoppage time to fire the Tigers back to the top-flight after nine years.
McBurnie’s goal meant heartbreak for Middlesbrough, the side who came in from the cold after Southampton were thrown out of the play-offs for spying on them.
It also avoided the threat of more litigation from Hull, whose owner Acun Ilicali vowed to take legal action if his side were not promoted.
His contention was that Hull should have gone up automatically when Saints were expelled, rather than face the team who had lost the semi-finals.
In the end if was McBurnie who settled the matter by scoring their third Championship play-off final winner, emulating the Dean Windass-inspired side of 2008 and Mohamed Diame’s class of 2016.
Yu Hirakawa jinked his way down the left wing and drilled in a dangerous low cross. Brynn dived forward to get a hand to the ball but it fell to the feet of McBurnie, who scrambled it home to fire Hull back to the promised land.
Hull are promoted alongside Coventry and Ipswich. Wolverhampton and Burnley are relegated, with the third team to go down either West Ham or Tottenham, to be decided in Sunday's Premier League finale.
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Oli McBurnie struck in the fifth minute of stoppage time to fire the Tigers back to the top-flight after nine years.
McBurnie’s goal meant heartbreak for Middlesbrough, the side who came in from the cold after Southampton were thrown out of the play-offs for spying on them.
It also avoided the threat of more litigation from Hull, whose owner Acun Ilicali vowed to take legal action if his side were not promoted.
His contention was that Hull should have gone up automatically when Saints were expelled, rather than face the team who had lost the semi-finals.
In the end if was McBurnie who settled the matter by scoring their third Championship play-off final winner, emulating the Dean Windass-inspired side of 2008 and Mohamed Diame’s class of 2016.
Yu Hirakawa jinked his way down the left wing and drilled in a dangerous low cross. Brynn dived forward to get a hand to the ball but it fell to the feet of McBurnie, who scrambled it home to fire Hull back to the promised land.
Hull are promoted alongside Coventry and Ipswich. Wolverhampton and Burnley are relegated, with the third team to go down either West Ham or Tottenham, to be decided in Sunday's Premier League finale.
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