Huddersfield-born Cameron Jerome has talked of the “special moment” winning promotion to the Premier League with Norwich City.
Jerome, 28, put Norwich ahead against Middlesbrough in the Championship play-off final before Nathan Redmond made it 2-0 after just 15 minute.
That’s how it remained and Jerome – who had his picture taken with Thierry Henry, who he described as a “great man”– said on his Twitter account: “Amazing day all round such a special moment to win promotion at wembley #ncfc #premierleague proud day for everyone associated with the club.”
Norwich captain Russell Martin said winning promotion through the play-offs was the “proudest moment” of his career.
The Canaries returned to the top flight a year after relegation.
Martin told Norwich TV: “It feels amazing to have it (the trophy). The way we’ve done it is the ultimate and this tops everything for me at this football club since I’ve been here.
“To lead a team out at Wembley and then to lead them up the steps to pick up the trophy, it’s the proudest moment of my career and I don’t think that will be topped.
“It’s special to go up the steps at Wembley, it’s the stuff you dream of and fortunately I’ve been able to do that as captain.
“You dream about stuff like that as a kid and just talking about it makes you feel a bit emotional seeing the yellow and green out there as you go up the steps - but to lift the trophy at Wembley, that was a cup final out there.
“It’s an emotional day. I think after last year it is a bit of redemption. We’ve had our naysayers and our doom mongers this year but we’ve got through all that as a team, a squad - the staff as well.
“I think the football club this year has been more together than ever to prove people wrong and get back to where we belong and thankfully we’ve done that today.”
Norwich boss Alex Neil, in charge of Scottish side Hamilton Academical before his appointment in January, told Sky Sports: “I believed we would do it, but it’s one thing believing it and another thing doing it.
“Big players arrive on the big stage and you saw that in the first 20 minutes - we were unbelievable. We worked so hard to get here. The worst thing you can do is walk off having been scared.”
