CHRIS Lucketti is tipping Bury to home in on promotion.

Skipper Lucketti believes the Shakers' remarkable form at Gigg Lane will be enough to clinch a place in Division One next season.

Boasting the best and only unbeaten home record in Britain, Bury appear to be building towards a glorious last day promotion celebration in their third remaining home game against Millwall.

Four points clear of the play-off places, they can go a long way to realising what seemed an impossible dream when they occupied 22nd place in the Third Division 20 months ago with Gigg Lane victories over Crewe Alexandra tonight and Peterborough on Saturday.

But Lucketti warns if Bury want to be champions they must behave like champions in the crucial five-match run-in.

"We are so close we don't want to throw it away now," declared the defensive kingpin.

"But we know how tough it is going to be. Blackpool were really up for it when they beat us on Saturday and we had no right to moan about the defeat because we were poor.

"When you are top you are up there to be shot down. It is the biggest game of the season for most sides when they play us now and we have to raise our game and play like we are top of the league."

The 25-year-old echoed the cool professional approach which has helped get them to the top and will ensure there is no panic in the final straight of the promotion race when he added: "If someone had said at the start of the season that with five game to go we would be one point clear we would have jumped at it so we're very happy to be where we are.

"We have had a great run of results at home and we must carry it on. We've got three games left at Gigg Lane and I think three wins will do it although I think it is going to go to the last game of the season."

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