Tooting & Mitcham are celebrating promotion to the Ryman Premier League after a 1-0 victory over Cray Wanderers yesterday.
Striker Paul Vines, two-goal hero in the midweek victory over Worthing, was the match-winner again in the Ryman Division One South play-off final at Imperial Fields.
The 24-year-old broke the deadlock 11 minutes from time in a tight match.
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Jamie Byatt's crossed from the right and Vines, at the far post, composed himself before drilling the ball into the bottom corner.
Cray's first chance had come in the fourth minute when Lewis Wood screwed a shot wide.
Keeper Glen Knight saved as Vines' feet and Jon Henry-Hayden forced a fine save out of the keeper.
The closest the visitors came to scoring was late in the first half when Dave King made amends for an error by making a fine save from Jamie Wood.
After the break, Jamie Byatt's deflected shot trickled wide.
But Vines' goal ended Tooting's 19-year exile from the top division of the Isthmian League and capped another outstanding season under manager Billy Smith.
Last season, in the veteran manager's first season in charge, the Terrors won the Surrey Senior Cup and London Senior Cup in a hectic final week of the season, only to be beaten 2-0 at home by Hastings United in the play-off final.
But, this time, having retained the London Senior Cup last month, they have made no mistake and will be rubbing shoulders with the likes of Sutton United, Carshalton Athletic and Staines Town.
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