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The Fort William Inquirer

We were so close, yet also so far ~ Rangers lose the League title race!

June 5593

Fort William, Orange - So close, we were. Indeed, we were so close of achieving a victory in the First Division. Yet, it seems that hope, that dreams that many Rangers supporters bore in their heart has been bottled by Mr. Azunovich's Team in the last day of the season. As Northminster United, Fort William Rangers and the Alchester Football Club were in the course of the Championship. Before this journey, Northminster United was at 88 points, Alchester was at 87 and finally, the Rangers were at 90 points. They only needed two things, the first being that Northminster United either loses or draw their match again Brownsfield and the other, was to secure a victory against the Martwick Demons. While in theory, that match would have been simpler in different times, this time we have on one side a team fighting for their survival in the First Division and on the other, a team fighting for the first title of First Champions that they would see in 11 years. The result couldn't have been more staggering.

A draw. A simple draw. While it brought the Rangers to a comfortable 91 points, it still wasn't enough, as the match played tonight didn't see any goal being scored on either side, thanks to a restless defence on each side preventing to other from scoring even one simple goal. Ending the match with an unimpressive 0-0. Well, for anything that mattered, for now, Alchester was Champions of Luthori, the first title that they would see in 11 years, right?

Well, no. No. Just no. You see, while the match between Martwick and Rangers was ending, in the other side of the country, the match between Northminster United and Brownsfield seems to have taken an improbable scenario. For much of the 1st period, Northminster United was completely dominated by their adversaries, with Brownsfield taking advantage of the relative weakness of their opponents to score, not only once, not only twice, but thrice. With it, the score at half-time was of 3-0, putting Northminster at 3rd Place, since Alchester and the [Fort William] Tigers were relatively on a razor's edge with Alchester leading the match 1 to 0, putting them at 90 points and the Rangers were having a null against Brownsfield.

Yet, during the 2nd period, everything began to change for the Western club, with Ramsay Adegoke scoring a hat-trick during this period, with a first goal at the '57, then a second goal at the '71 and finally, a third goal at the '89th minute, which in term, lead to the stadium becoming increasingly ecstatic about their chances of victory, with the National Police, at least according to the Police Chief that night, becoming stressed out of an eventual overflow.

Then at the 90+6 minute, it came, Nathan McGee, the goalkeeper, in a right sight, that is, scored the last minute goal, securing his team's victory and their victory of the First Division. It was the team's captain, so many times criticised by the press that came to save them and offer them the title that they've wanted for the whole season. Victory celebrations brook out across Northminster as City and United fans celebrated the victory of United, while some with more difficulty than others. At the very least, everyone was happy that Alchester lost the Title, for the second time in a row.

While the atmosphere in Northminster was prone to party, in Fort William and Alchester it was not the case, but, at the very least, everyone went home with the objective of making a better season next season.

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