Nathan Jones told Sky Sports:
“It [the celebration] looks a bit dramatic there, but it’s just, look. I’m a Christian. I believe in God. It’s all God’s will in terms of everything, and and that’s what it was.
“Just thanking God for that moment because I knew it’d be pandemonium after the line. The fourth official said to me it’s done. So that’s why it was that moment. So look. It looked a bit dramatic. I apologise for that, but, all I want to do is thank my God because he’s he’s brought me to a wonderful place.”
“It’s a little bit of relief and a little bit of euphoria at the moment.
“We’ve been on a wonderful run and we’ve been a good side for a while.
“We brought Matty Godden here to score goals – you rely on good players to get you goals and he’s as good as we’ve seen.
“We’ll let them loose tonight and tomorrow and then we’re back on it.
“We’ve gone from 18th to Wembley in a year and we don’t want to stop here.”
He added: “It’s a little bit of relief, a little bit of euphoria. It’s a long season. We gave ourselves too much to do for automatic promotion. We started the season well, had October, November, then we’ve been on a wonderful, wonderful run. We’ve been a good side for a while and I just feel that’s justification.
“There’s a lot of pressure when you come to Charlton, big expectation, because of the size of the club. The club is ready to go. I’m just so pleased.
“Every single year, he [Godden] scores goals and if you get goalscorers, you’re always in with a chance of winning games. What happened last year was Charlton couldn’t keep clean sheets. We’ve done that. We had to build, then we added fluency, a little bit of evolution in terms of our play, then you rely on good players to get you goals.
“Tonight and tomorrow we’ll let them loose and do whatever they want, then we’re back on it. This is a great, great group and you don’t get to this point without a great group because it’s not about a manager or a striker, it is a collective effort. This group are hungry, they want to achieve something – and we’re seeing the fruits of a lot of work.
“But we haven’t achieved anything yet. What we’ve done is we’ve earned the right to take part in a wonderful occasion, but only the winner is remembered.”
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Wycombe manager Mike Dodds told BBC Three Counties Radio:
“The two legs panned out how I thought they would with two really good teams locking horns.
“The bit that’s hard to take is that the one moment of the tie has landed to them and there’s a lot of emotion now.
“When teams are so evenly matched, you have to take those moments and unfortunately we were on the wrong side of the fence.”
“There’s a lot of emotion around the result. We wanted to go to Wembley and get promoted, but congratulations to Charlton. Nathan Jones has done an incredible job and the run they’ve been on is incredible.
“Over the two legs there was nothing in it. We had opportunities, but unfortunately for us they took their one clear opportunity and they’re going to Wembley.
“The disappointing thing from my point of view is we spoke about moments, and it’s a real harsh lesson for me in terms of it being my first time in the job and the tie being decided by one moment.”
“It was mad. It’s what this football club is all about. They deserve it. The fans out on the pitch now, they deserve everything. They’ve had some tough times, and we’ve got a day out at Wembley now.
“The group we have is incredible. We knew if we kept on going we’d do it in 90 minutes.
“[The gaffer] has always believed in us. The tough times we had before December and then when it turned, he’s always believed in us. It’s intense, but i’ll take intensity if it’ll bring us special memories like that.
“We’re such a tight group. We have a laugh but we work really hard. That comes from the gaffer and the owners.
“You don’t want to go to Wembley and be on the losing side. I witnessed that first hand two years ago. My mentality now is that’s not going to happen to me again. But we’ll go there and enjoy the day.
“We know the club will sell out its allocation. It’ll be some day.”
: It’s a play off semi final, not the Oscars.
: Or he’s actually living the moment and reacting how he wants. He’s also a Christian and said after the game the official said it’s basically done and wanted to thank his god 🤷♂️
: I would walk on lava for this man. @CardiffCityFC once again I ask you pay him & Charlton whatever they want and make it happen
: I like how he checks to see if the camera is there first 😂
: That glance at the camera 20 seconds in is proper David Brent vibes, talk about playing for the camera
: He’s been like this all his life, even when cameras are not around… Celebration police out in force
: Love the people in the comments moaning about this 😂 what a privilege it is to have a manager who cares this much #cafc
: All this boring Nathan Jones slander 🥱 Getting a team from mid table to the playoff final in 4 months is some doing. Off to Wembley we go! 😁 #cafc
: I fucking love you Jonesy.
: Leyton Orient i am absolutely begging you to do the funniest thing
: Nothing would be funnier than the might of Leyton Orient turning these over, he will have a full on breakdown
: Other fan bases can think what they want about Nathan Jones. But he’s a proper manager. We’ve been sitting mid table for the last five years, finishing 16th last season. One full season and we are going to wembley. Up the weird beautiful welsh bastard. #cafc
@harvbrfc: actually think he might do 10 laps round wembley naked if they get promoted.
@eoghan1996: If there is a god I beg Leyton Orient win the final , what a strange guy
