While it's not yet mathematically certain, West Bromwich Albion Football Club are within touching distance of a glorious return to the top-flight of English Football.

Chris Brunt's late equaliser against Southampton on Monday night as good as guaranteed the Baggies promotion back to the Premiership, after Adam Lallana had given Saints a shock lead.

The 1-1 draw left Tony Mowbray's men three points clear of third placed Hull City and the buoyant Baggies have a vastly superior goal difference.

Mowbray, whose side have a +13 goal advantage over the Tigers, certainly agrees his side are almost certainly back in the top-flight, adding: "It will take a strange set of results at the weekend to deny us promotion.

"I generally don't show emotion outwardly, but inwardly I enjoy things just as much as anyone else and, vice versa, when we lose football matches I feel it the same as everyone else.

"I'll enjoy the moment. I feel a certain warmth about the achievement of getting into the Premier League."

After the disappointment of their play-off final defeat last season and the bitterness of relegation the previous year, the Albion faithful were determined to enjoy the night as they watched their beloved Club clinch a return to the Premier League.

Thousands spilled onto the Hawthorns pitch, as the celebrations reached fever-pitch style proportions.

"The aftermath of losing the play-off final was pretty distressing for everybody at the Club really, but we had to rebuild and start again," said Mowbray.

"The players still here have found the courage and resolve and talent to go and do it all again because 46 games is a long, long slog, and the rewards are there with the scenes in the dressing room.

"Even though mathematically we've not got enough points yet, it's got to be some strange weekend not to find ourselves in the Premiership."

Front-man Kevin Phillips, who bagged a brace against the R's in their 5-1 victory at the Hawthorns in late September - has been the undoubted star of the show for Albion this term.

The 34 year-old, this season's top-scorer in the Championship with 22 goals, was the deserved recipient of the Football League's Championship Player of the Year award in March.

Whether the former Sunderland hit-man adds a Championship winner's medal to his ever expanding trophy cabinet remains to be seen though, with Luigi De Canio's men keen to end the campaign on a high.