Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson has been proven right about a prediction he made three years ago, one player has now revealed this week.
Wrexham appointed Phil Parkinson as their new manager in 2021 after Dean Keates was sacked.
He arrived in North Wales with a plethora of EFL experience and was a serious appointment from the new owners.
Wrexham failed to win promotion in his first campaign, losing out in the National League play-offs.
However, Parkinson has since been able to make history by guiding the Dragons to three promotions in a row.
It was an incredible feat and something very few fans likely expected to happen, but one man did.
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What Humphrey Ker said about Wrexham
Wrexham ended their 15-year stint in the National League during the 2022/23 season.
A year later, the Dragons finished second in League Two to go back-to-back.
The step up to League One seemed much bigger, however, and speaking at the Wycombe Wanderers game on the opening day of the season, Humphrey Ker said Wrexham should be happy with 12th.
He said: “Back in August at the Wycombe game, I was telling everyone, ‘Anything above 12th, we should build a statue of Phil’.
“Fans were saying the same to me. But we’ve gone from that to now, where we’ve been right up at the top of the table all season and massively outperformed all expectations”.
The Dragons exceeded those expectations by some distance, however, finishing the 2024/25 season second in the third tier.
Phil Parkinson always knew Wrexham could go back-to-back-to-back
Consolidation in the third tier seemingly wasn’t the goal for Parkinson, as Andy Cannon has revealed this week.
Speaking on the That Wrexham Podcast, the midfielder detailed what the manager told him after signing back in 2022.
Cannon said how Parkinson predicted that the Dragons, who were still in the National League at the time, had a good chance of winning three promotions in a row.
He said: “He didn’t say that, but he said if we go up this year, he said we’ve got a very good chance of next year.
“And then he says everything that we can end up building to get to League One, we can have a shot again. So he never actually said back to back to back, but yeah, he did give the license of basically saying we could get to the Championship in as quick [a time] as possible.”