YORK City boss Gary Mills has pledged to create club records to be proud of after finally laying the away-day bogey to rest.

The Minstermen’s history books were rewritten after a run of 35 win-less fixtures on the road equalled the previous longest sequence, but outright ownership of that dubious honour was avoided following Boxing Day’s 1-0 win at North Ferriby.

Mills set many landmarks during the double-Wembley winning campaign of 2012 in his first spell at the Bootham Crescent helm and is now targeting new ambitions, with the first a bid to collect six points from a possible six – a modest goal that has eluded the club since February.

Ahead of the New Year’s Day return fixture against Ferriby, Mills said: “That away record just proves things have not been good enough and why we are sitting where we are as a football club.

“We’ve got to get out of that mindset and change it and now we’re starting to believe we are a team who can win week in, week out. I want to set records for the right reasons by bringing success and I’m going to do that.

“The other records just drag everybody down, but we’re in a positive place now and the next thing I want is back-to-back wins.”

Mills added that showing the same level of resilience, witnessed at Ferriby’s Grange Lane, could hold the key to overcoming the same opponents again and even referenced 1980s R&B favourite Billy Ocean.

“I’ve just told one player that there used to be a song called “When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going” and that was us on Boxing Day,” Mills opined. “North Ferriby were a bit direct, but we had that bit of aggression about us and you’ve got to show that to win games of football.

“If, for any reason, we feel that because we’ve won at North Ferriby, we just have to turn up for another three points, then we will be in trouble, but I feel we’re a bit mentally stronger now as a football club. We’ve only lost one game in the last five and that was a late goal at Tranmere.”

Mills is hoping that Yan Klukowski will be available after suffering a groin problem at Ferriby, pointing out: “I think he’s going to be OK.

“He’s been with the physio all week, but we expect to train tomorrow.”

Aidan Connolly (thigh) is expected to be available for the trip to Dover on January 7 and Lanre Oyebanjo (knee) by the end of that month.