Gillesphey on target to seal Charlton's return to second tier

London pride flowed south-east rather than east from Wembley. Charlton's Valley rather than Leyton Orient's Brisbane Road will be a Championship venue next season.

- John Brewin

A free-kick from Macaulay Gillesphey proved enough, continuing the comeback trail for Nathan Jones. In the aftermath the Addicks manager, as is his way, thanked his Lord by giving thanks to the skies. His team had proven his self-belief in his qualities as a manager when so many others have doubted him.

"I came here, wanted to build something, took a gamble, drop a division, drop two divisions, my last job was Premier League," Jones said. "I knew we could build something... I don't believe in the football gods, I believe in my God."

Jones, after his troubled, misfiring, misunderstood spell at Southampton, has been explicit that completing this mission was something akin to redemption. His opposite number, Richie Wellens - an experienced lower-league campaigner - will just have to go again, take the positives from a season where his club pointed in the right direction. "We're a growing club," he said. "We have to realise where we have come from. We could easily have won that game but as a club we need more time."