YORK City’s double-Wembley winning former manager Gary Mills took no pleasure from the club’s Football League relegation and won’t be out for revenge with his Wrexham team on Monday.

Mills was sacked as City chief ten months after he had guided the Minstermen to Conference play-off and FA Trophy final glory in the space of eight magical days in May 2012.

He was replaced by Nigel Worthington at Bootham Crescent as Mills’ team hovered above the relegation zone having failed to taste victory any of their last 11 matches.

Worthington extended that win-less run by another five fixtures before going on to beat the drop after taking 13 points from a possible 15 during a tense run-in.

The former Northern Ireland chief went on to lead City into the League Two play-offs the following season, but a poor summer recruitment drive led to his subsequent replacement by Russ Wilcox, who had also departed by the time Jackie McNamara oversaw last term’s return to National League football.

McNamara and Mills will now cross swords at the Racecourse Ground in two days’ time, as the latter faces his old club for the first time since his dismissal three-and-a-half years ago.

Dismissing all talk of revenge, though, Mills insisted: “I’m not that sort of man and the people at York know that. I want to win, of course, but people who don’t understand what I’m about asked me if I was pleased to see York struggling last season and I said ‘never’.

“That’s way off the mark because, having got York out of the Conference, I never wanted them to drop back into it. I wanted to be remembered as the man who got the club back into the Football League.

“I don’t bear grudges. I had a fantastic team there and I’m still confused as to why I lost my job.

“I wanted to be there for years and didn’t feel I would be leaving for a while. I had even talked to my wife about selling our house and moving up to York.

“But what happened proved that’s not a sensible thing to do when you’re involved in football management. It’s always the people in charge who make decisions and live and die by them.

“As it looks now, with them playing against their old manager in the Conference, then maybe it wasn’t the right one.”