Dunfermline Delight: Pars Avoid Brechin Banana-skin to Win Promotion
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It was celebration time at East End Park as Dunfermline won promotion to the Ladbrokes Scottish Championship with a 3-1 win over bottom club Brechin City. Faissal El Bakhtaoui netted a hat-trick for the home side, but there was plenty of action away from the pitch too.
With an impressive crowd of 4,402 in attendance to see the Fife club win promotion, the Pars players, fans and official Twitter account were understandably rather excited by the occasion.
It all started out pretty straightforwardly as the club sounded the party claxon…
Ladbrokes League One Champions, party time at East End Park
— Dunfermline Athletic (@officialdafc) March 26, 2016
And title-winning birthday boy Brad McKay celebrated the perfect present.
Probably sums up how I feel right now!! 2 titles in 2 years and this one is secured on my birthday ??⚽️❤️?? pic.twitter.com/sk7O2SZ6Yk
— Brad Mckay. (@brad_mckay) March 26, 2016
Congrats came in from Premiership club Motherwell and the Pars reply suggests they’re looking to stroll through the Championship next season!
@MotherwellFC Thanks guys. See you soon ?
— Dunfermline Athletic (@officialdafc) March 26, 2016
Meanwhile, there were some harsh home truths dished out in one Pars-loving family!
@officialdafc won the league today & my father looked me, his firstborn, in the eye & told me it was best day of his life
I ain’t even mad
— roobs (@roobsleiser) March 26, 2016
Everyone was flipping excited.
Lookback – The #DAFC squad go bananas in the dressing room celebrating the win! #COYP pic.twitter.com/QXwu9VJf3p
— Dunfermline Athletic (@officialdafc) March 28, 2016
And they looked to nail top spot in the Great Ladbrokes League One Bakeoff.
Congratulations to @officialdafc on winning League One. East End Park – home of the best bridies in Scotland! pic.twitter.com/93VDVh8l0K
— Mark Donaldson (@DonaldsonESPN) March 26, 2016
Sore heads were predicted.
We won the league today. But tomorrow, we suffer with the worst of all hangovers #DAFC #CHAMPIONS pic.twitter.com/YXiGVswCce
— Steven Mill (@stevenmill) March 27, 2016
And duly arrived.
Think even our Twitter account has a hangover..#Champions ?????????
— Dunfermline Athletic (@officialdafc) March 27, 2016
But nothing could dampen the joy of Pars ‘keeper Sean Murdoch and his teammates.
— Sean Murdoch (@sean_murdoch_) March 26, 2016
The newly-crowned champions head to Coatbridge to face an Albion Rovers side who are winless in seven, with the Pars 4/7 to take all three points.
Elsewhere, the race for play-off positions is hotting up. Peterhead are currently in second place and travel to Forfar, with the promotion-chasing visitors 9/10 to win.
All Odds and Markets are correct as of the date of publishing.
