POSH PARTY
Clarke-Harris sends Peterborough up
DARREN FERGUSON hailed “the best promotion” of his career after a remarkable comeback.
Ferguson’s men needed a point to reach the Championship, but looked set to fluff their lines when falling 3-0 down to Anthony Scully’s brace and a Jorge Grant effort.
Posh produced a rousing recovery, with Siriki Dembele on target and League One player of the season Jonson Clarke-Harris scoring twice, including a lastgasp penalty.
Ferguson (right) said: “It’s absolutely incredible. I’ve never seen anything like it. This club means so much to me and there
is no doubt this is the best promotion I’ve ever had.
“I don’t mind admitting I got quite emotional after such a tough couple of seasons. We worked too hard for it to blow it.
“We’re in the Championship again and we’ll be trying our best to stay there.
“I always felt we could come back if we just got one goal. We did that and then after the second goal I thought we would go on to win it, never mind draw.
“That didn’t happen and we ended up hoping for one more chance. When it came I knew Jonson was going to score.
“The boy has been an unbelievable signing. To smash the penalty in the way he did under
that much pressure was brilliant.” Imps boss Michael Appleton was angered by the award of Posh’s stoppage-time penalty.
“If I called it anything less than an absolute disgrace, I wouldn’t be doing it justice,” he said.
“We missed a sitter at 3-1 and I started to wonder if it was going to be one of those days.
“But it has all come down to a decision that is undefendable. “There is genuinely no one in the ground who would say any different and it is really frustrating.
“The referee must have a Peterborough postcode. We firmly believed we could go on to win our final two games and put all the pressure on Peterborough.”