Oldham chairman Frank Rothwell has said the club “have to start again” after their dramatic promotion back into the English Football League.
The Latics were facing another season in the National League when they trailed Sunday’s promotion final at Wembley in extra-time against Southend.
Two goals in two extra-time minutes from substitutes James Norwood and Kian Harratt, however, snatched an incredible 3-2 win.
The club had a celebratory event at Boundary Park on Monday evening and Rothwell said the hard work will start now.
He told Radio Manchester: “In extra time we had to come back again and score twice and my faith was wavering at that point.
“I was thinking about doing another whole year to get promoted but we scored and I couldn’t believe it. It looked like penalties which are the flip of a coin and then we scored again.
“It was unbelievable, it was only three minutes before that my son was looking very dejected. All of our plans for the future revolved around us going up and it was slipping away.
“We have to start again now.”
