DEREK Adams is doing all he can to ensure his Morecambe side are not distracted by events elsewhere.

The Scot knows Wanderers or Cambridge slipping up will open the door for The Shrimps, who host Bradford on the final day, to reach the third tier for the first time in their history.

More accustomed to struggling at the wrong end of the EFL, Morecambe are in unfamiliar territory but Adams has been working all week to make sure it is business as usual at the Mazuma Stadium.

“We’re trying to keep things as normal as possible,” he told The Morecambe Visitor.

“We’ve had lots of media requests this week, asking to do interviews, but we’ve tried to knock them back because it’s important we concentrate on our job.

“Cambridge and Bolton are in pole position and, if they win, they are going to be in the automatic promotion places.

“If we win, then we’re looking for them to suffer a defeat or a draw in order for us to get automatic promotion.

“We’re only going to focus on what we can do. A draw is good enough if Bolton lose but we will be going out to try and win the game.

“It’s a strange league at times. You only have to look at the game last week between Harrogate and Cambridge, when Harrogate won 5-4 and Cambridge needed a point to go up. That’s why we have got to do our job and then, hopefully, the results elsewhere will go our way.”

Cambridge head into the final day in pole position to grab one of the two automatic promotion spots, something boss Mark Bonner is well aware of.

Second in the table, the U’s host relegated Grimsby with a point likely to be enough to see them over the line.

Bonner’s men are a point clear of Wanderers in third and two ahead of Morecambe in fourth with a far superior goal difference.

“If ever a game is literally about us, it is this one,” the U’s boss told the Cambridge News.

“There will be an interest in what happens in other games, but we know that a positive result for us gets us where we need to be.

“Our focus just really needs to be on trying to do that, knowing that, and we’ve seen this in the last two teams that we’ve played, people aren’t going to give it to you, and just allow you the game that you want.

“I think from our point of view, we just have to really focus on the process that goes into being a good side, the 90 minutes, and the start to that is the opening period of the game.

“If we look after that, and chunk the game down, and look after each little section, then that’s the process that we’ve got to try and follow.

“If you look at this from too far away, it’s too big a thing to look at, so just chunk the game down, concentrate on the really basic fundamental things that make us a good side, and try and get that from the very beginning of the game. That’s certainly been the case in training this week.

“The boys have been fairly calm and focused. Obviously you can get a bit edgy towards these games, that’s natural I think in any game, especially big games, but that’s fairly normal.

“We have to bottle that, hold our nerve and do what we’re good at.”