Oldham Athletic brag Micky Mellon says earning the Latics' archetypal promotion successful 34 years volition awaken his "monster of a club".
Mellon's broadside scored 2 quickfire goals successful the 2nd fractional of extra-time to triumph an epic National League promotion final against Southend astatine Wembley connected Sunday.
It was the Scot's 3rd promotion to the EFL arsenic a manager - equalling John Still's grounds - and sixth wide successful his vocation successful football.
And the 53-year-old said it would person a seismic interaction connected the full club.
Mellon told BBC Sport: "It's an unbelievable accomplishment to crook it circular and get a effect from wherever we were. It's a fantastic infinitesimal for us.
"This nine is simply a monster. We were nether a batch of unit due to the fact that we person a large household that backmost america - we needed to spell up.
"It makes truthful overmuch quality to everything astir Oldham arsenic a shot club, we tin truly physique guardant down the scenes now.
"It's massive, it's monstrous to get america successful [the league]. Everything changes present for the club."
Oldham - whose past promotion came, to the apical flight, successful 1991 - were backed by much than 20,000 travelling fans successful a grounds assemblage of 52,115 and Mellon said it showed the spread betwixt the National League and EFL is narrower than ever.
He said: "There are immoderate truly large clubs successful the National League who person been allowed to stagnate.
"York should person gone up automatically. You can't triumph that magnitude of points (96) and not spell up automatically. It should beryllium 3 up, 3 down. Teams similar York and Southend would marque the EFL better.
"I deliberation the EFL has got to manus an olive subdivision retired to its archetypal members who are struggling.
"I've been successful League Two and determination are teams determination who are not arsenic ambitious oregon arsenic large arsenic those successful the National League. It's got to change."
Mellon admitted his nine would beryllium down successful presumption of preparing for adjacent play - with small much than 2 months until it starts - and expects his players to instrumentality to grooming successful arsenic small arsenic 4 weeks.
He said: "In presumption of recruitment we are truthful galore weeks behind. It's crazy. We're going to person to beryllium backmost grooming successful astir 4 weeks. That'll beryllium pugnacious but we would surely person taken it.
"We'll request to beryllium and organise decently but it's thing I americium not excessively disappointed astir having to do.
"We recruited a batch of these boys due to the fact that we believed if we went up we'd beryllium OK - we person a batch of league players there.
"We person been doing small bits down the scenes, guys we'd person brought successful anyway, but it does unfastened things up a spot due to the fact that a batch of radical accidental 'I privation to beryllium successful the league' truthful possibly it opens up a recruitment propulsion and makes it a batch amended for trying to determination this nine forward."
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