Cameron’s Cowdenbeath savour their title party

just 11 months after a play-off defeat by Brechin City saw them relegated, Cowdenbeath secured a return to the First Division by beating Forfar 2-0 to claim the Second Division title.

The Fifers kept the near 1,000 crowd at Central Park waiting for the win they needed, with Mark McKenzie scoring twice in the last 18 minutes to ensure Colin Cameron landed silverware in his first season in management.

Cameron – a former Scotland cap, Scottish Cup winner with Hearts and play-off winner with Wolves – said: “This is up there with my achievements as a player. We have always had the same focus and that was to get promotion and we have done that now. We now have to go one better and stay there next season.”

The defeat saw Forfar slip down to ninth place, with Albion Rovers climbing out of the bottom two after drawing 1-1 at home to second-placed Arbroath. Robert Love gave the Coatbridge side the lead, with Lee Sibanda levelling matters.

Third-placed Dumbarton came from behind to win 2-1 at home to in-form Airdrie. The Diamonds, who had Ryan Donnelly sent off late on, looked on course for a seventh straight win when Willie McLaren curled home a free kick, but Bryan Prunty levelled and David Lilley turned the ball into his own net.

Airdrie have been joined in fourth place by Stenhousemuir and East Fife, who both won at the weekend, with only four goals separating the three sides. The Warriors beat Brechin 2-1 thanks to goals by Iain Thomson and Grant Anderson, with Jim Lister replying for the Glebe Park side. Ryan Wallace’s last-gasp penalty gave East Fife a 1-0 win over a Stirling Albion side who now languish five points adrift at the bottom.