Former Premier League club that closes on EFL-backer with thumping play-off win

Former Premier League side Oldham Athletic is about to have an EFL-backkeer after a pounding 3-0 win in York City.

They were the first team to participate in the Premiumof which they were a founding club, to fall Non-League when their 115-year-old stay in the EFL ended in 2022.

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Now the side of Micky Mellon is only one game removed from League Two After booking their place Wembley For the play-off final of the National League on 1 June.

Only 24 hours earlier York -boss Adam Hinshelwood, whose team finished second on 96 points, no less than 23 for Oldham, his son Jack celebrated the winner for Brighton about Liverpool.

But he was brought back to earth with a bang when she suffered a heartbreak on home grass.

York gave Mellon’s men the lead when the goalkeeper Harrison Male to Alex Hunt was performed by Joe Garner and the veteran brought home from outside the box.

Vimal Yoganathan left the hosts with a mountain to climb with a low stroke shortly after the break.

And a little later, Oldham stuck another dagger through the heart of the ministers.

Joe Pritchard made it three with an near-post header to create a pitching vasia from the end.

It is now back to the drawing table for Hinshelwood and his Shell-Shocked team.

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Although Mellon chases a sixth promotion as a manager, Oldham can start planning their crunch trip to the capital.

They will be confronted with the winners of Wednesday’s confrontation between Forest Green Rovers and Southend United.

Both meetings this season ended 2-2.

But something will finally have to give in their biggest game of the campaign so far.