To celebrate Prostate Cancer UK's Official Charity Partnership with The Football League, we're offering fans the chance to see their team at the home of English football with our Road to Wembley competition. You can win one of five pairs of tickets for the npower Football League Championship play-off final between Watford and Crystal Palace, plus a VIP tour of the home of English football.

To enter the #RoadtoWembley competition, text FL and your team name (eg FL Watford) to 82772. Not in the play-off mix? You could still win a fantastic team prize!

Texts cost £3, an amount that could see you on your way to Wembley and us on our way to cracking prostate cancer.

In honour of this year's clash between the Eagles and the Hornets, we asked Guardian football writer Rob Smyth to run down his top five matches in the history of English football's second-tier showdown. As you'll see, what's now known as the most lucrative game in world football has regularly provided drama fit for a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster…

Reebok classic: Bolton celebrate their 4-3 victory over Reading in 1995. Photo courtesy of Action Images

 

Charlton 2-1 Leeds, 1987
When it comes to late drama, the first play-off final set the bar formidably high. After a 1-1 draw over two legs, Charlton versus Leeds went to a replay in Birmingham. In those days the play-offs comprised three teams from the second tier and the fourth-from-bottom side in the top flight: Leeds were playing for promotion, Charlton to avoid relegation. John Sheridan put Leeds ahead in extra time with a majestic free-kick. But the centre-back Peter Shirtliff - who scored only 15 league goals in a 17-year career - went into Charlton folklore by scoring two in four minutes. The first was a cool sidefoot into the corner in a crowded area, the second a thumping header from a free-kick with three minutes of the match - and the season - remaining.

Swindon 4-3 Leicester, 1993
This was playground football on the grand stage, a match full of innocence, end-to-end attacking and goals coming in large clumps. Glenn Hoddle's Swindon scored three in 11 minutes either side of half-time, with Hoddle scoring a beautiful first goal in his final game before leaving for Chelsea. But Leicester launched an absurd comeback with three goals of their own in 12 minutes. At 3-3 they had momentum, but Swindon had something even more powerful: destiny. Paul Bodin scored a controversial late penalty to take them into the top flight for the first time in their history.

Bolton 4-3 Reading, 1995
If Reading had not been promoted to the top flight for the first time in 2006, this game might have haunted the club forever. They went 2-0 up early on - the first a sublime solo goal from Lee Nogan - and would have gone further ahead had Stuart Lovell's penalty not been saved by Keith Branagan. A brilliant Bolton side, until then known for their FA Cup giant-killing, now became equally famous for a staggering comeback: two late goals in normal time and two more in extra time sent them into the Premier League. For Reading, the joint-manager Jimmy Quinn's late goal was not even a consolation on a heartbreaking day.

Charlton 4-4 Sunderland (Charlton win 7-6 on pens), 1998
Never mind the greatest play-off final, this is one of the greatest games played at Wembley. It was a match to induce a thousand coronaries. Charlton were behind three times yet kept ignoring the apparent inevitability of defeat. Niall Quinn scored two excellent goals for Sunderland but the undoubted star was Clive Mendonca, a Sunderland fan who scored a brilliant and eerily composed hat-trick for Charlton. He then scored the first penalty of a shootout that seemed to go on forever until Michael Gray's tame kick was saved by Sasa Ilic.

Swansea 4-2 Reading, 2011
After almost a decade of binary matches, the Championship play-off final exploded again with minor classics in 2010 - when Blackpool beat Cardiff 3-2 - and, particularly, 2011. Scott Sinclair scored a hat-trick: two of them penalties, the other after a scintillating burst from Stephen Dobbie, who also half-volleyed a superb goal of his own to put Swansea 3-0 up. Reading came back to 3-2 and then hit the post through Jem Karacan, with Garry Monk making a stunning block from Noel Hunt's follow-up. Sinclair assuaged the nerves by sealing his hat-trick, and promotion, with 10 minutes remaining.

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