Bom Dia! It’s Friday, and time to visit Nick and his squad of Portuguese talent at Wolves, who are well-positioned in season 6 with 15 games left. Can they hang on for another European finish or perhaps even better? Here’s the man himself…

Liverpool are emulating their real life “Slot Machine” at the minute, and closing that 10-point gap is a lot to ask, but let’s see if we can at least give them a run for their money…

We start with a draw at Old Trafford, which isn’t the worst result. We’re trailing at half time and I almost take Pauleta off, but give him until the hour to sort himself out, and my patience is rewarded…

Pompey await in the FA Cup 5th round…

FFS this is football, not rugby, what’s the problem?!

This is the longest I’ve seen Rio Ferdinand stay at West Ham, but he can’t handle our in-form frontline. JP, who is filling in in midfield, gets our second before Pauleta seals it. A clean sheet is obviously too much to ask though…

We do just enough against Portsmouth in the FA Cup, thanks to a solitary Coelho goal. Pompey give a good account of themselves, but only manage one shot on our goal, so I’d have been disappointed to lose…

City await in the quarter-finals. The draw looks reasonable if we can avoid Liverpool…

Back in the league, we eventually manage to break down a stubborn Leicester side who are fighting for survival, with Coelho making it two in two as he continues his return to form.

Anselmo is beginning to attract attention…

We make surprisingly easy work of Coventry for once. It stays 1-0 for ages, and then JP kills off any sky blue comeback. Of course Magnus Hedman is man of the match, but f*ck him!

Chelsea’s Landreau is also man of the match after two of his back line get sent off, but do I care? Do I f*ck! Liverpool and Sunderland both draw, so that win takes us 2nd!

Cup again, and it takes an hour of knocking on the door to finally find a way through against City. A second quickly follows, as a red card proves to be the turning point…

Everton and Wimbledon are in the draw as well, but oh no, it had fo be f*cking Liverpool.

JP is suspended against Sheffield United, but Daniel Pauleta used to play up front for his former club, so I give him a go, and he doesn’t disappoint. And yes, that is Alan Shearer…

Again?!

If that wasn’t bad enough, The Boa’s season is now over…

Luckily I can recall Delfim from loan…

And now this. For f*ck sake!!!

This man is certainly an expert in the injury field. He was immense when fit, but unfortunately it wasn’t very often, so he’s off…

I see that Figo’s available and try my luck, but needless to say he rejects…

Let’s check in with Trev for another random transfer. Normally Ledezma gets released by Ajax and remains on a free for eternity, but not this time…

After injuries to Rui Jorge and Vicente, I’m in dire need of a fullback, so I bring in this guy from Villa for £1.3m on deadline day…

I also spot this chap doing well in the Portuguese 2nd division, so he’s ours for £450k. Do we need him? Absolutely not, but you can’t ignore potential like that…

It’s a Desmond at the Reebok, as Manarte returns to haunt us yet again to put a dent in our hopes of chasing Liverpool down, bringing our run of six clean sheets to an end…

Which brings us to the FA Cup semi. Delfim puts us ahead, but his goal comes too early, and The Reds move up through the gears towards the end and eventually make us pay in extra time…

Our visit to Barnsley must be the first game in my time in charge that we’ve failed to register a single shot on target. To make matters worse, Liverpool drew for the second match running.

But the disappointment at Oakwell is quickly forgotten with a massive win over 2nd-placed Sunderland, who were 3 points ahead of us. Coelho is the hero, and our superior goal difference sees us leapfrog The Black Cats…

I had a bad feeling about the second game of our Tyne-Wear doubleheader, and my fears are well-founded. It’s another missed chance, as Liverpool lose at home to Man Utd. F****ck!

Any hopes we had of catching Liverpool are pretty much gone, as not even Stig of the dump getting sent off helps us against the champions elect. We drop to 3rd, but still have that game in-hand…

We needn’t have worried though, as a win over Boro takes us straight back up to 2nd after the blue half of Merseyside do us a huge favour and beat Sunderland. Yes!!!

Nothing less than a win will do at 18th-placed Stoke, and the boys are up to the task, as Loja gets his first goal before Evans evens things. Anselmo and Xavier seal it, but Liverpool clinch the title with a 3-1 win over Coventry…

Our game in-hand is a Midlands derby, which is a tense affair, but Sa Pinto gets the winner after coming on as a sub. Bar a minor miracle, that should be 2nd place in the bag!

Our final game is away at Wimbledon, and oddly it’s the night before the rest of the final day fixtures. It’s a routine win, and Everton lose, so we finish comfortably in 2nd by 6 points. Champions League here we come! Or at least the qualifiers anyway…

Another £9.75m is added to the bank balance, taking it to £52m…

So here’s how things have ended up. There’s no doubt it’s our best season to date, but I can’t help but wonder how different things might have been if we hadn’t gone through that early losing streak. We’re getting closer though…

So that’s season six done and dusted. I’m disappointed, but Champions League qualification is a plus, and who knows, it might even help us attract some bigger names. Join me next week for the start of what will hopefully be lucky season seven. Adeus!