WANDERERS must keep their foot on the gas in the promotion race to reward the best chairman in the business, says Ian Evatt.

The in-form Whites go to Bradford City on Saturday on their best run of results since the turn of the millennium and are starting to look like a team capable of bouncing back to League One at the first time of asking.

Evatt believes the Wanderers chief, who helped save the club from going out of business completely 18 months ago, deserves a moment of success.

“I’m telling you, the football world needs more people like Sharon Brittan in it,” he said. “Simple as that.

“Football at times can be dark, mysterious, devious, agenda driven - that’s everything she’s not and this club is very fortunate to have her.

“I just think her nature is different. She is a people-person and the honesty and integrity she works with is a rarity in football. She is a shining light who can walk in a room and make it light up, that’s the kind of positivity she has.”

Evatt went through the mill with his squad earlier this season after winning just one of the first 11 competitive games and suffering some humbling defeats against the likes of Port Vale, Leyton Orient and Tranmere.

Poor spells prompted some sections of the Bolton support to call for change but Evatt remained confident that fortunes would change and credits Brittan for supporting him in the toughest times.

“She hasn’t once put me under pressure,” he said. “She hasn’t once wavered in her belief in me and what I do, what I can achieve. For many reasons, that took the pressure off me and let me keep working hard and focus on the football side of things. That’s the truth of it.

“You can all go ‘well he would say that, she’s my boss’ but she’s an exceptional woman and unless you meet her personally, you won’t know and understand what I mean.

“That in turn has helped me concentrate on getting things right, and also the support that she and the rest of the board gave me in January as well.”

Evatt also revealed that it had been after a call from Brittan in the summer that he decided that Bolton was the right move.

“She is the reason I came here,” he said. “I had a conversation with her over the phone and it sold me the dream, the journey.

"Together we think we can take Bolton back where it belongs but also spreading some goodwill and doing the right things off the pitch. We need the whole community to pull for the club again. She’s a huge part of that.”