Welcome back to Central Park, where we try to convince people Cowdenbeath is actually New York. And by that I mean in the USA and not Rotherham. Anyway, things are going rather well. We’re 5 points clear at the half way stage and scoring goals for fun. For once, we aren’t letting them in for fun either, and in Clyde we have a great example of a truly terrible team.

I’m still going to try and stick to two posts per season, certainly at at this level. Playing against Lossiemouth, which sounds like a disease, will only enhance the experience.

The Micker, who is probably close to being able to claim royalties from this blog, is walking on Ayr here. Two more for the scrapbook.

Then two more at home to Brechin. Pearson is proving useful these days too.

There they are again, the new Cole and Yorke. I’ll let you decide which is which.

Off we go to the dentist to deal with our Lossiemouth and because oral health means a lot to me, we’re going full strength. Everybody has a good day out and more importantly we leave with a clean bill of health. Our reward is a trip to Aberdeen.

Our league form continues to be an unstoppable freight train, Forfar hit for…four. Nice.

We top that with 5 against Queens of the Stone Age. Just you try and stop us.

Clydebank were never likely to disrupt us. Hamilton is the central midfielder who has inexplicably turned into prime Bobby Charlton.

Our big day out at Pittodrie starts well and gets even better. Micker has been quiet recently but he just needed a game big enough. What a team. What a result. Queens of the Stone Age await in Round 4 which, let’s be honest, could be a lot worse.

Albion Rovers won Division 3 ahead of ourselves but they’re well behind us now. Proud of the lads.

13 points the lead, 19 to the promotion threshold of 3rd. 11 games to go…

Our first manager of the month award! I guess our relatively poor cup runs have cost us in the performance points stakes.

Naturally now we are cursed we lose 2-0 at 2nd placed Stenhousemuir. Shame. The streak is over.

Quickly back on track against Morton, an important win to address any potential wobble.

Back to cup action and I must be wearing my lucky cup hat as we win 7-1 away. This team has peaked. Lord Palmerston Park has never seen scenes like it.

It would be useful if Forfar can win that tie…

Brechin are thrashed. Our groove has been re-established.

How about a pair on routine wins to seal promotion?

We’re going up!

With 6 games to spare, nice. Some healthy 10 point gaps throughout this league table.

Anyway, all of that means we can focus all of our attention on welcoming Rangers to Central Park. Yes, unsurprisingly they saw off Forfar. Perhaps even less surprisingly we’re 2-0 down after 21 minutes. Rangers try their best to self destruct but despite finishing with 8 men, we just can’t make our mark. Chalk it down to experience.

The remaining games are not particularly important, we’ll have the league won in no time. Here’s 3 more points for the road despite a scrap from Forfar.

Poor Micker. He had a good chance of reaching 50 goals but he’ll be up against it now.

QOTS must be sick of us and to be quite fair I’m sick of making the same gag. Pearson agrees.

Snoozefest at Boghead Park where Tomlinson scores the goal that secures us the title.

Woo and yay.

It’s deadline week and the vultures are circling. If ever there was a time to lose players, it’s when you’re already champions. £230k for Alan Ritchie, who has a clause.

Unfortunately so does big GT. Or is it little GT. Height unknown. Price tag mighty.

Very mighty. He’ll be missed of course but that money will prop us up over the bleak summer where no money can be made.

I’m starting to dislike Stenhousemuir. Firstly, their colours are awful. Secondly, we failed to win again.

Two more routine wins, including a Micker hat-trick on his return from injury ensures we finish the season on a high.

91 points, 106 goals. Don’t you know Pump It Up, the Cows are going up.

48 for Micker, 22 for Pearson is a great hit rate too.

Tomlinson obviously has been removed but McClair proved to be a super freebie after he was drafted in early doors when Jeffers (9 in 10) went back to Everton. Tomlinson had 22 goals and 22 assists, if you’re wondering.

8.06 is a mad average rating for a 35 year old.

Mind you the Micker is about to turn 37 and has better than a goal a game for us.

So with £2.3m in the bank to keep us afloat over the next 4 months, we’ll be looking to get ready for life in Division 1. Tomlinson and Ritchie really need replacing whilst Gislason will surely not fancy a third season. It’s rare you get to keep a loanee for the full season without the parent club being ridiculous so thanks to Arsenal for that rare outbreak of common sense.

See you next week for more fun as we try to plot a route to the Premier League.