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Wednesday can now look forward to Championship
football next season which had seemed wildly out of reach when
they trailed Peterborough 4-0 after the first leg of their
semi-final before producing the greatest comeback in English
Football League playoff history.
In front of 44,000 Wednesday fans crammed into Wembley, Windass
emulated his father Dean, whose winning goal for Hull City in
the 2008 Championship playoff final helped them win promotion to
the Premier League.
In an action-packed period of extra time, Wednesday's Michael
Smith and Barry Bannan had efforts saved before Windass sent a
diving header past goalkeeper Harry Isted in the 123rd minute to
spark rapturous celebrations.
"There's no words, there's no words. Wow," Dean Windass told BBC
Radio Sheffield. "I knew he'd score, this morning when I woke up
at 5.30 I was nervous and even with his head as well - I can't
believe he's headed it.
"I'm so proud for him. When I scored here I thought my life
would change. I've got two boys but this boy - it's
unbelievable."
Wednesday, who narrowly missed automatic promotion to the
Championship from the third tier in the regular season, fell to
a thumping defeat in the first leg of their playoff semi-final
against Peterborough to leave their promotion hopes in tatters.
But they stunned Peterborough 5-1 at Hillsborough in the return
leg before prevailing on penalties.
"I've played for a couple of big clubs but look at this, it's
unbelievable," Josh Windass told Sky Sports.
"We've been good on the pitch this year. The club's got a lot of
work to do to catch up with the other clubs off the pitch, but
hopefully we can do that and start being the giant club that we
are."
(Reporting by Pearl Josephine Nazare in Bengaluru; Editing by
Toby Davis)
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