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Matt Lee

Ecstatic Sam Surridge sums up Nottingham Forest promotion in one word

Nottingham Forest striker Sam Surridge has described the Reds' rise from bottom of the Championship to play-off final winners as "mental".

Forest were bottom of the league when Steve Cooper took over in September 2021. Fast forward eight months and they are now celebrating a return to the Premier League for the first time in 23 years after beating Huddersfield Town 1-0 at Wembley Stadium.

It was a game of few chances and a couple of questionable refereeing decisions going in Forest's favour, but it is Levi Colwill's own-goal after deflecting a wicked James Garner delivery that proved to be the match-winner as the Reds won promotion.

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