LETHAL LATICS DREAMING OF A MAGICAL EFL RETUEN

THE LAST time Oldham Athletic went to Wembley it still had the famous twin towers, Madonna's Vogue was number one and Joe Garner had just turned two! Veteran striker Garner put the Latics on their way back to the home of English football 35 years on from their League Cup final appearance with the opener in this demolition job of favourites York City.

- George Rose

Garner's low drive on 23 minutes set the scene before two goals in two minutes after the break from Vimal Yoganathan and Joe Pritchard put them out of sight.

"It's fabulous," boss Micky Mellon said. "The club has come through so much and now to get the opportunity to take this football club to Wembley... 35 years ago, man, that's terrific.

"What I will say, and I mean this, every single player I went to said to me, 'Let's go to Wembley and finish the job'.

So we need to go there and, again, play very well and try to seal the deal.

A-game "It's terrific we've got the opportunity to do that. To come here and play like that because we knew it was going to be a tough game and we'd have to bring our A-game and get everything, or most stuff, right. Which we did. It was a terrific performance from the players.

"We're really happy, the fans will go home happy, we'll have a couple of days off and then start working towards whoever our opponents are.

"I can't believe I am saying it, 'Who our opponents are going to be at Wembley'. I am so pleased. I am so pleased for the (Rothwell) family that we can take them to Wembley because they've done so much, and Darren Royle, the Royle family, it's great.