Hello and welcome back to The Wonderkids where we continue to attempt to take a rag-tag bunch of players with unlimited potential from Division Three all the way to the top. Most of them may never have a hope in hell of becoming the next Nii Lamptey, John Curtis or David Beckham (yes he’s got unlimited potential whilst Michael Owen…does not) but we’ll see if we can drag the last ounce of potential out of them. You can catch-up with last week here.

Last time out the backbone of Dean ‘Bing’ Chandler had helped carry us to within sniffing distance of the promised land with 13 games to go. Our strikers not quite on fire as before but the goals continue and we’re defensively ‘okay’. Here’s a reminder of the table;

First up at the slicer to get the roll balling it’s Norwich and Ulrik does the business.

United continue to pursue our Scottish minus man but we rebuff their efforts once again.

The orangey crow man slaps in a trick at the slicer and Preston are dispatched. That puts him on the road to double figures.

He’s back from the dead, it’s Yuri Rose! Get in!

A goal on his return as he bends one in from distance.

Parry is at the heart of everything and it’s no wonder Liverpool, Man Utd, Tottenham and Arsenal are all chasing his signature.

Dead and Bury’d. Rowdy Rody Turpijn gets in on the act and has an Irn-Bru to celebrate.

Can’t be long now until he’s leading his country as captain, surely?

Our old nemesis, the Abbey lads. Freddy puts us behind, but we recover well. Can’t stop a man on a roll!

Not sure how Freddy came to be playing for Cambridge given Forest paid £1.2m for him only for him to end up back at Millionaires without any transfer taking place…

A minus man is on the move again. Another day, another dollar, what a mercenary.

We’re getting closer to our goal scorer spread targets:

Parry gets his 10^th and Sikora gets goals number 8 and 9 but its points dropped at lowly Reading. Despite conceding three, Bibbo in the Reading goal is on form, almost as if he’s found a powerful ring…

Nicky ‘Minus Man’ Weaver does us over again as he resembles a brick wall to our strike force.

Well excuse me! Look who just dropped in at the B Team on loan. Hellllllooo Wonderkid legend.

He’s no Dean Chandler. Anyway, we lose in the fields of Senegal as Millwall shut us out. We are sleepwalking to the end of the season. Sikora gets goal number 10 and we have our five in double figures!

We follow up with a 0-0 at 20^th placed Bolton. The Wolves are at the door. Come on lads WAKE UP!!!

Nii takes the p*** and we’ve all but thrown it away. Wolves are now top and we must win on the final day and hope that they lose.

In such a crucial moment, some players step forward, other cross the line. Duarte makes us work for it but Yuri fires in goals 7, 8 and 9 to all but guarantee victory.

Alas, it just wasn’t enough. Our loss of concentration in the run-in has cost us dearly. It must be said, Wolves made it to the FA Cup final, so they are good money for 1^st place.

Here’s our Stevie G moment…

So, in the end we’ve achieved back to back to back promotions and we’re in the promised land! I’m not too excited after Coventry took us apart this year. Manninger has cemented himself in goal and Chandler and Almeida have been rocks at the back as we’ve conceded just over a goal a game.

Our goal scoring mission saw us get six over the line in the end. If Rose hadn’t broken his head it would surely have been seven.

Duarte’s eight assists for a full-back can’t be all bad eh!

And so ends another season at The Wonderkids. The debt continues to rack up in the B-Team but I think we’ll give the summer of friendlies a miss this time to avoid any more occurrences of shin splints! I hope you’ve enjoyed meeting a few new faces and seeing the progress the minus men are making. We hope to see you back for our assault on the Premier League next time out! Thank you and see you soon.

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