After 12 seasons away, Portsmouth secured promotion to the Championship with a 3-2 win over Barnsley on Tuesday. Here, we take a look at how John Mousinho's side did it.
For more than a decade, Portsmouth have been sleeping giants. Having dropped out of the Premier League in 2010, the club later suffered back-to-back relegations and, three years after being at English football's top table, they found themselves in League Two.
' The curse of a downturn in form afterwards did not strike and it was not until November 25 that a heavy 4-0 defeat at home to Blackpool brought a club record 27-game unbeaten league run to an abrupt end. Had they not have won the next four on the trot without conceding a goal, Christmas could have looked a lot more bleak, given they won just one of six between December 23 and January 13.
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