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Tomorrow at Wembley Reading take on Huddersfield for a place alongside the big boys.

The Championship play-off final is widely regarded as the most lucrative game in world football.

Swansea were there six years ago - coincidentally against the Royals.

The match was said to be worth £90million - but in actual fact, according to the Mail on Sunday, it was worth £686.5million .

Putting aside those mind-boggling figures for a second, the drama on the pitch during that May afternoon banked Swansea the Holy Grail; Premier League football.

All Swans fans will remember Scott Sinclair's cool hat-trick, with the history books reading that with a 4-2 score line, Swansea must have enjoyed a relative stroll against their Berkshire opponents.

Um, not quite.

First-half cruise

Swansea had raced into a three-goal lead thanks to Sinclair's brace and Stephen Dobbie's lovely on-the-half-volley finish.

Brendan Rodgers' side were at their swashbuckling best in the opening 45 minutes.

Sinclair tucked away a calm spot-kick after Nathan Dyer had been felled; he then finished adeptly following Adam Federici's attempt to claim a cross.

Dobbie sent one end of Wembley into raptures when he made it three, all before the half-time whistle.

Hymns and Arias rang out. But song would turn to nerves soon after.

A future Swan sent off - then the wobble

During the break, with Reading incensed, assistant manager Nigel Gibbs, now a coach at the Liberty under Paul Clement, and midfielder Jay Tabb were sent off in the tunnel for remonstrating with referee Phil Dowd.

It didn't have a detrimental effect on the Reading players, however.

Within 15 minutes of the restart, it was 3-2.

Joe Allen was adjudged to have turned into his own net following a header from Noel Hunt, then centre-back Matt Mills powered home from another corner.

It was full-on panic time.

Step forward Monk

One man who showed no sign of tension, however, was Garry Monk.

The man himself, though, was in agony.

He said : "It was the biggest game of my career and I was in the worst condition of my career.

"I'd had a virus and probably lost seven or eight pounds.

"My knee was bandaged and every time I kicked the ball it would tweak."

Not that you would have known it; make no mistake, Swansea were on the ropes and were there for the taking.

In the ascendancy, Shane Long laid the ball off to Jem Karacan who struck from 25 yards.

The ball took a deflection off Ashley Williams before hitting the base of Dorus de Vries' left-hand post.

The rebound fell kindly to Hunt, and with the goal at his mercy looked for all the world to have levelled matters.

But Monk had other ideas.

With de Vries still picking himself up from his dive to his left, Hunt has a 10-yard gap in which to bury the ball. Alan Tate is also in attendance, but the emergency left-back is also out of position.

Cue Monk. He did his best Inspector Gadget impression and stretched his right leg out to block the left-footed goal-bound effort. What made the intervention even more impressive was the fact the centre-back was keeping a close watch on poacher Long at the same time.

Balance of play swings again

The defensive heroics of the Swansea back four and Monk's block in particular seemed to knock the stuffing out of Brian McDermott's men.

With Fabio Borini going nowhere in the Royals' box another clumsy challenge saw Swansea awarded another penalty.

The rest is history.

Swansea were on top of the world - but Monk's block was out of it and forever etched in Swansea fans' hearts.