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Tranmere Rovers reach League One after defeating Newport in playoff thriller

Tranmere Rovers are into League One after defeating Newport County in Saturday's promotion playoff final at Wembley.

Connor Jennings clinched Tranmere's second consecutive promotion with a dramatic late winner.

Jennings popped up, a minute from the end of extra time, to head home Jake Caprice's right-wing cross to settle a desperately fraught League Two play-off final.

Twelve months ago, Rovers had to play for 89 minutes with 10 men against Boreham Wood in the National League play-off final after Liam Ridehalgh's first-minute red card – and scrambled a 2-1 win.

Here, they mastered the art of brinkmanship again – and they had to work fiendishly hard to see off 10-man Newport.

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