Rotherham United promoted

Rotherham United are starting to plan for life back in the Championship after winning the League One play-off final at Wembley.

They beat Shrewsbury 2-1 after extra-time.

Richard Wood scored a captain's brace to help secure a 2-1 victory in the Sky Bet League One play-off final against Shrewsbury, sending the Millers back to the Championship.

Wood, whose first-half goal was cancelled out by Alex Rodman, bundled home his second in the first half of extra-time to give the Millers a deserved win at Wembley.

Paul Warne says it's the perfect way to finish the season off

It makes it extra special that my kids are at an age that they know what is happening, my dad is ill and has hung in there to see it and if you go to work and work with your best friends then you are pretty blessed.

So for those three reasons this is pretty special.

We've had an amazing season, to finish at Wembley with a final is pretty special.''

Central defender Wood proved the unlikely matchwinner and caps off an impressive turnaround for him at the club after being sent out on loan three times and almost being sold in January.

Wood opened the scoring for the dominant Millers in the 32nd minute, heading home from a corner after David Ball had earlier missed a penalty.

Warne's men were pegged back when Alex Rodman converted a superb short free-kick but, after seeing his side spurn several chances, Wood did the job himself when he bundled home in the first half of extra-time.

Shrewsbury were not at their best but must consider themselves unlucky not to have won promotion, having spent over 200 days of the regular season in the top two.

But with several key loan players, such as Dean Henderson and Matt Godfrey, now set to leave the club, boss Paul Hurst, who has been linked with other jobs, knows next season will be difficult.

My stomach is telling me I'm disappointed, my head is telling me to be very proud that we have come so close to promotion,'' he said.

When you see grown men cry and people question whether people care, these lads are committed and gave it all.

The worry is if we'd have got promoted the gulf in terms of financial power would have made it a huge challenge but one we wanted to tackle.

Maybe the bigger challenge is trying to get the team and squad together to get even close to replicate what we have done this season. That is the balancing act.

Can we do it next season? That is the challenge.'