PRIMARK prodigy Sean McConville would love to dedicate an Old Trafford goal to the daughter born just three weeks after his arrival at Accrington Stanley, and the winger is among a number of Reds players knowing the League Two play-offs could be the making of their careers.

McConville is set to be in the starting line-up for Stanley’s play-off semi final first leg at Stevenage on Sunday and a place in an Old Trafford final would be the completion of a fairytale rise for a player who was reluctantly working at Primark during his days with Evo-Stik League First Division North side Skelmersdale United.

Released by Liverpool as a youngster, his hopes of becoming a professional could have been over but his form led to him being snapped up by Stanley little more than two years ago.

His daughter was born days later and baby Amelia’s growth has gone hand in hand with his own development as a player.

The 22-year-old is now fifth-placed Stanley’s joint top scorer on 13 goals – together with Terry Gornell and Phil Edwards – and is determined to make further progress to make his daughter proud in years to come.

Speaking about his arrival in 2009, McConville said: “I signed here on February 1 and my little girl was born on the 19th. She’s two now.

“I dedicate every goal to her with my celebration and hopefully she can grow up and realise how good a footballer her dad was.

“How good would it look on my CV, going to Accrington Stanley and getting promoted to League One?

“I think for all the lads as well, to have that on your CV would be really good.

“We’ve got a lot of young lads in the team who are trying to make a better way in the game than League Two, and I think the players we’ve got here can play at a higher level.

“Hopefully we can do that ourselves by taking Accrington to League One.

“For me it would be a massive fairytale after working at Primark – getting up at 6am and not finishing until 4.30pm – to go to Old Trafford and get promoted.

“It is the stuff that dreams are made of.”

But McConville is wary of thinking too far ahead, knowing that Stanley must come home from Stevenage with a good result and learn from Morecambe’s 6-0 thrashing at Dagenham and Redbridge in their first leg last season.

“You saw what happened last year with Morecambe, and we’re on our guard not to let it happen to us,” he said.

“We’ve done so well this season and we don’t want to throw it away by going to Stevenage and not performing.

“But the gaffer has worked all week on us going forward. We’re going there to win.”

History of League Two play-offs

Finished 4th – 12 promoted clubs.

Finished 5th – 4 promoted clubs.

Finished 6th – 1 promoted club.

Finished 7th – 2 promoted clubs.

Semi-final: 5th v 6th

Finished 5th – 13 wins.

Finished 6th – 6 wins.

All statistics are since change to three automatic promotion places in 1992.