Skipper Stuart McCall has no doubt that Bradford City's promotion to the Premiership is the realisation of his biggest football dream.

City's elevation to the top flight was the icing on the cake for the 34-year-old McCall who returned to Valley Parade last summer determined to help the side make it to the big time.

In his ten years away with Everton and Rangers from Rangers he retained strong affections for the club he first joined as a 16-year-old apprentice in 1980.

"Helping the club into the top flight is a dream I have had for a long time.

"Dreams don't always come true, but I have been fortunate that so many of mine in football have been fulfilled, but this is the biggest one of all.

"When I left the club in 1988 I said I would love to come back to Valley Parade one day, but I never really believed I would return.

"However, the club signed me last summer and now less than 12 months later we are in the Premiership.

"Some people said I wanted to ease down my career when I came back, but I still have a lot of desire left in me.

"I was the club's first signing and although I knew the chairman and the manager had ambitious plans I never realised what a large sum of money the club would spend.

"There are no guarantees even if you have money and lots of clubs spend and don't get success, but credit to Paul Jewell. He has spent the money well and credit to Geoffrey Richmond for giving it to him to spend.

"I think we were 66-1 to win promotion at the start of the season and after seven games we were next to the bottom of the table with five points out of 21.

"Most people were looking at a fight to stay up or maybe mid-table at that stage. We said at the time there were still a lot of games to go, but we never expected to be anywhere near second place at the end of the season.

"It has been a magnificent effort by everyone connected with the club."

McCall who was playing for City on the day of the Valley Parade fire disaster in May 1985 when the Bantams were presented with the Third Division championship trophy said: "I don't normally talk about the fire.

"However, there are a lot of people out there who were at the fire and I would like to think our success today is for them."

McCall was also staggered by the atmosphere at yesterday's match. "It's the first time I have played at Wolves and what an occasion to make your first appearance at Molineux.

"We went a goal down, but then we clawed our way back with two lovely goals.

"In all, we scored three magnificent goals although we could have done it easier because they got back into the game after we missed the penalty, scored a second goal and then they hit the post.

"In the last ten minutes I was pleading with the referee to blow his whistle."

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