Bonjola! Welcome back to Gijon, where the once worst team in La Liga history are now relative giants. The current La Liga champions are being made to work hard in their attempts to retain the title alongside trying to win the Champions League for the first time. Let’s get to it as we reach the finale of season 6.

A solid start to the days work as a second half to remember sees us rout Albacete 5-1. They are not very good.

That said, sometimes neither are we. We are prone to these sort of off days where the roof caves in for a brief period of time and we leave ourselves a mountain to climb. In this case, a Mallorcan mountain. Sigh.

Denilson has fit in nicely. Toledo are battered.

This is more like it. Valencia are going well but they catch us on a good day (for us, a bad day for Valencia, obviously) and we reignite our title challenge.

Barcelona have been woeful this term and we put them to the sword until Casper the friendly centre half sees red and we endure a nervous 22 minutes, especially when Nikiforov has already gone off. De La Pena makes it especially especially nervous but we win.

6 weeks for Nikiforov! That’s a huge blow. It’s no exagerration to say he’s barely missed a game in 6 seasons.

This is just cruel. Sibbers is Mr Reliable.

I could promote Figo but I think he’s a fraud.

We plod on and win at Real Madrid. 3-0 up after 32 minutes, where was this in Mallorca?

Champions League time and a narrow victory over Leeds.

Bo Andersen was in goal for them and he repels 14 of our efforts.

A busy day for Paulinho Santos, essentially winning the game and then getting a red card. He has 20 aggression and it often shows.

Another of those pesky off days sees us lose at Celta.

Job done in Yorkshire.

That feels like it could be worse.

I’ve allowed the B Team to cash in on Mulryne because that is an absurd amount of money and also Ortega’s £50k per week financially cripples them.

Bilbao are beaten – yes, that is Lee Bradbury. Famously Basque.

We are 8 points adrift with 9 to play…

Things are rosier in Europe. This handsome win in France puts one foot in the final.

The schedule is tough at this time of year, Marseille to Barcelona Wednesday-Friday is a touch too far.

Zaragoza sometimes cause us problem and that Huegun character definitely does, but 3 goals in 17 minutes had already put us out of sight before his probably dodgy penalty.

Phew. A narrow win over Osasuna with a much rotated team.

And just like that, the gap is down to 3.

Marseille are seen off. We’re in the final!

Juventus in Nou Camp.

Speaking of, despite our best efforts our hopes of a treble are finished on penalties. We got rid of the two goal deficit very early on but couldn’t get another. The lottery goes awry when Arnarson is denied. Mr Iceland has been a bit disappointing for me.

Anyway, remember how tight that league table was? Well now it’s time to play Espanyol and put the title race back in our hands.

That was the theory anyway but Martin’s second yellow just before half time has us up against it. de la Sagra’s late goal may yet prove important.

Oh my. Two days rest is nowhere near enough and we get beat up by Atleti. Veiga’s red means he will miss the last game of the season.

Gulp. It’s not in our hands now.

A huge but nervy win at Valladolid keeps us in the race.

And again against Betis. Being pegged back twice might have ended us before the unlikely figure of Ciaramella wins it.

Espanyol only draw 2-2 with Osasuna!

The pendulum swings our way again.

Another narrow win puts us on the brink.

We’ve taken the long way round but surely we’ll see this through.

An awkward match at Deportivo is negotiated successfully.

lol. Espanyol have bottled it.

So too have Juventus. The finest night in this club’s history (presumably) sees us 5-0 up after 35 minutes of the Champions League final. European Champions!

We obviously go too hard on the celebrations and don’t really bother ourselves against Sociedad.

Thankfully Espanyol didn’t get the 13 goal victory they needed and we retain the crown…by the barest of margins.

The B Team won the league again in dramatic fashion

Presumably Compostela and Las Palmas will reap the benefits of the B dominance.

It was borderline cruel letting Ortega loose on the second tier

Meanwhile for the top lads, Bakayoko was again the star man

The squad all performed well to be fair. The vast majority over 7.00 which I see as the magic number for these things. The wing backs rarely clear it but Luccin and Caputi did. Arnarson as I said earlier hasn’t really hit the heights.

The front 2 continue to score. I suspect Roberts (Rush) will be playing B Team football next season.

Just the 62 goal involvements for Bakayoko. To think, he nearly left.

That rounds off season 6 then. I get the sense this save may have lost interest from the viewers – last week was our lowest read blog ever, so maybe one more season to see if we can get the B team into the Copa final and that’ll be that. Thanks for reading and see you again