Good morning! Welcome back to Cowdenbeath, where we’re basking in the glory of pinching promotion to Division 2. It was a final day dash but thanks to Montrose’s ineptitude, we did it. We have months to prepare for life in the third tier so let’s get back to the Summer of 98.

An issue worth noting is that the Scottish season for me finished on April 12th. That’s nearly 4 months without a game and therefore without revenue. It’s crippling financially. We’ve made £92 in June.

We spend that £92 on tickets for the Scottish Annual Awards. I just wanted to see the Micker get his golden boot.

Never miss an opportunity to screen grab the rarest screen in CM9798.

This is Dave Beasant’s regen. It’s as good as we can do.

We can however re-loan Francis JeffHurst and he is getting better and better.

Well it was a nice fortnight or so. Beasant junior is off.

Not before we make it 13 in two games. Mick Quinn is like a fine wine…that he has drunk and fuelled himself.

The courts find us an extra £20k for Beasant’s regen. It all counts.

Kilmarnock are a tough second round opponent and despite giving as good as we get, it’s defeat at Rugby Park.

Another cup, another win. It’s a strange old calendar up here.

We play Clyde again, this time in the league, and once again it’s 7 for us. We all love the Micker.

And here’s why.

Just when you think we’ve turned a corner we throw in a totally flat performance at home to Brechin. It’s hard to explain.

Back to business against Queens of the Stone Age.

Look at this, a clean sheet! Wonders never cease.

Falkirk are a Division higher than us and keep us at arms length. A bit like Kilmarnock did really. We won’t be winning the League Challenge Cup anyway.

Another of our dull performances sees us struggle to break down Clydebank but eventually Tomlinson does what he usually does with ease in the lower leagues of England yet has found surprisingly hard work in the bottom tiers of the Scottish Leagues.

Everton man. Get with it. You aren’t going to play him.

Life after Jeffers begins at Stenhousemuir. Yes, that is Phil Mulryne, wasting away here in Scottish Division 2. More importantly though, that is Mick Quinn making it 4-3 in the final minutes. An all time classic.

We have a Jeffers shaped hole and for £375 a week Brian McClair seems more than happy to fill it.

Say what you like about him, his appearance seems to have riled up the Micker. Another hat-trick sees off Albion Rovers.

Away at Morton things take a turn when Bound is dismissed. He’ll do that from time to time. Just when it looks like we’re going to lose guess who equalises in injury time? I’ve ran out of superlatives.

We’re walking on Ayr with a 4-0 demolition. We’re a well oiled attacking machine with little need for defending.

Barry Mac is off to Plymouth. When I started this blog, a lot of Vinny Mac jokes were inevitable but things seem to have taken a twist since then..

We get revenge on Brechin thanks to Choccy McClair. He earns every penny of that £375 a week.

Just another home game where we win 3-0 and precisely 3,000 people attend. Micker merchandise is flying off the shelves.

The man is an animal in front of goal.

A 6 point lead so far and a healthy goal difference. Clyde scored a third of their goals agaisnt us…

9th placed QOTS shouldn’t cause us any problems and sure enough, Tomlinson needs only 5 minutes and the Micker does the rest. Yet another match ball for the big lad.

Just when it’s all going well, we throw in one of these. Their one shot on target goes in, we spend 90 minutes spraying around the bowl like the Micker after 9 pints. He gets one right, at least.

More like it at good old Boghead Park as Clydebank are given a good flushing. You know, I think we’re going up.

And then, typically…

Things never change…

We need to bounce back but we go behind to Albion Rovers. Sigh. Thankfully we only have 3 minutes to feel sad before we equalise and Tomlinson seals the win. Still, where’s our flowing football gone?

Another sub par performance sees us trail at home to Morton and despite the Micker’s 28th goal of the season, we can’t earn all three points. Hopefully, this is just a wobble.

The lead at the half way stage is 5 points. I feel like it should really be more, we’ve lost 2 games, but when you’ve got a dead weight side like Clyde there’s a clear disparity between the top half of the table and the bottom half.

Next week we’ll round off the second half of the season and hopefully earn a promotion to Division 1. I’d love to address our goalkeeping issue, it’s obviously our weak link but I don’t see who we’ll be able to attract. Let’s wait and see. Thanks for reading and look after yourselves.