DAVID Flitcroft dedicated Bury’s promotion to his players after the records tumbled following their 1-0 win at Tranmere.

The Shakers looked destined for the play-offs after they lost a recent key game at home to Southend – their main rivals for automatic promotion.

But they bounced back to win their next two matches - including a record-extending eighth successive away victory.

And after the Shrimpers lost 3-1 at Morecambe, Bury clinched a place in the top three on the final day of the League Two season with a club-record tally of 85 points.

“I did feel two weeks ago that 85 points would be a milestone that if you reached that and you didn’t get up you would be disappointed,” he said.

“That’s a new record we have set and I am delighted for our group of players.

“This has been a real team effort.

“I have got 22 players in there that deserve to have promotion on their CV because they have given everything for the football club.

“I really do want to make sure this group of players get celebrated for the achievement they have made this season.”

Chairman Stewart Day was understandably ecstatic after the match, humbled to hear the 2,300 Bury fans that stormed on to the pitch chanting his name.

Day rescued the club from a winding-up order in the summer of 2013, taking over following relegation from League One.

“Unbelievable - absolutely incredible,” he said. “To see those scenes at the end of the game, the fans coming on to the pitch, I know they shouldn’t do but the emotions were running high.

“It’s an unbelievable thing for the football club.

“Two years ago when I took the club over we were down and the club was out.

“Basically now is the chance for the club to get back on its feet.

“I said we would get promotion and thankfully we have done.”

Bury’s assistant manager Chris Brass was possibly the happiest man in Prenton Park after the final whistle.

He missed the Shakers’ last promotion from League Two after leaving them just eight games from the end of the 2010/11 season to follow then manager Alan Knill to take a job as assistant at Championship side Scunthorpe.

“When I got the call to come back I felt I had unfinished business,” he said.

“It really did hurt me that I didn’t see the job through the last time.

“You see the celebrations – this is what we wanted.

“All I said to Dave was ‘look, thanks for bringing me home’.”