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Heckingbottom proud as Sheffield Utd win Premier League promotion

Sheffield United's victory over West Brom at Bramall Lane has secured promotion back to the Premier League.

The Blades have been two years in the Championship.

Victory came via goals from Sander Berg and Anel Ahmedhodzic. United will join title winners Burnley in the top flight next season.

Blades boss Paul Heckingbottom said: "I don't think it will sink in for a while but I'm just determined to enjoy tonight and make sure everyone else enjoys tonight - it's a shame we've got three more games left!

"But we've got to enjoy it, you enjoy every win - and when it's a win as special and significant as this, we are going to have a good time.

"I thought in the second half we were much better, we stepped on to them a lot more and we changed the midfield around slightly, we went to a three-man midfield.

"West Brom are very well organised and if we didn't get through them in the first two or three passes, they had two banks of four and were difficult to break down and were breaking on us. So we had to work hard but we've had that in every game."

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