Oldham ready to 'finish job at Wembley' - Mellon

Micky Mellon led Oldham Athletic to 19 wins from 46 league games this season prior to the start of the play-offs

Oldham Athletic will head to the National League promotion final at Wembley ready to "finish the job", boss Micky Mellon has said.

The Latics finished in fifth place during the regular season and set up Tuesday's play-off semi-final against third-placed York City by beating Halifax 4-0 in the qualifying round earlier this month.

Oldham stunned their hosts 3-0 to reach the final on 1 June, despite finishing 23 points behind the Minstermen this term.

"What I will say, and I mean this, every single player that I went to said to me 'let's go to Wembley and finish the job'," Mellon told the club website.

"We'll go there and play very well and try to seal the deal."

Goals from Joe Garner, Vimal Yoganathan and Joe Pritchard wrapped up an emphatic win for Mellon's side at York.

They will face the winner of Wednesday's second semi-final between Forest Green and Southend United.

It is the first time in 35 years that Oldham Athletic have reached a Wembley final and Mellon paid tribute to owner Frank Rothwell and his family, as well as chief executive Darren Royle and his family.

"I'm so pleased for the family that we can take them to Wembley, they've done so much for the football club," Mellon added.

"We'll give them that now but we'll be going there to try to get Oldham back into the Football League.

"We know whoever we play against will be a difficult game but we'll be ready to go."