Brentford will play in the English premier league next season for the first time in 74 years after beating Swansea 2-0 in the Championship play-off final.
Nine times Brentford had been involved in the play-offs in their history and failed to progress, but it was 10th-time lucky for the Bees, as they also banished the demons of last year's final defeat to Fulham.
Ivan Toney's penalty and Emiliano Marcondes set them on their way with first-half goals at Wembley, to take the west London club back to the promised land for the first time since 1947.
For Swansea, it's a second defeat in the play-offs in a row, having also been beaten by Brentford in last year's semi-finals. Insult was added to injury for them in the second half as Jay Fulton was sent off, too, as they ended the game with 10 men. They will roll on into a fourth campaign in the Championship next season.
The conversion from the spot was Ivan Toney's 33rd goal in league competition this season, getting them up and running and quelling what anxiety there might have been for their supporters.
Moments after the west London side went 2-0 up, Toney almost bagged a spectacular third, when a ball sat nicely for a volley from 25 yards that thundered off the underside of the bar and out.
As it is in the English football’s most winner-takes-all encounter, the bitterness is vented for the losers. After Swansea fell at the semi-finals of this bunfight last season, the pain of being thrashed by the same side one stage up carries a twisted irony.
They were a Premier League side as recently as 2018, and as such, boasted greater on-field top-tier experience than their opponents. But that counted for little when the division’s third meanest defence conceded two so softly and so early in the game.