Stuart McCall saw City sneak home on an emotional day against Lincoln and said: "That win's for you, dad."

Barry Conlon's 90th-minute goal earned City a 2-1 victory in the first league meeting between the sides at Valley Parade since the fire tragedy 22 years ago.

McCall was unimpressed with his team's overall display and admitted they were lucky to get the result - but he dedicated the victory to father Andy, who was among the burns victims in the 1985 disaster.

The City boss said: "My dad doesn't keep the best now and he's in a home so he couldn't be here.

"But I brought him back to our house on Christmas Day and explained about the game and he would love to have come.

"So I'd like to dedicate the result to him and all the people who were here who lost loved ones on the day."

City's win - their first in five games - lifted them to 15th in the League Two table but McCall was not happy that they failed to build on the flying start from Peter Thorne's opening goal after just 57 seconds.

He said: "As happy as I am with the final outcome, I'm disappointed with the performance. It's not often this season I can say we've lacked quality for the whole game but today we did.

"A big crowd turned up and we've not produced. I think it was a fortuitous result because we didn't do enough in the game to win it.

"We got off to a great start and I thought we would go on and entertain and play with a bit of freedom - but it never came off and too many people under-performed.

"All over the pitch we didn't do enough and there was a lack of quality from back to front. Take the first and 90th minutes away from us and it was pretty poor.

"But we've had plenty of games this season when we should have taken a lot more than we did, so maybe it was just fitting on a difficult day like this one that we should get the three points."

Peter Jackson, facing his old club for the first time as Lincoln boss, suffered only his second loss in six Valley Parade trips as a manager.

He said: "I'm bitterly disappointed, because I felt we fully deserved a point, but it was nice for Stuart and myself to lead the two teams out and I thought the minute's silence was impeccable.

"I'm pleased with the reception I got from the Bradford fans. It changed during the game of course but I've had a lot worse."

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