Belief key for City on visit to face runaway leaders

There is no such thing as mission impossible in football – and Brechin City aim to prove that theory this afternoon.

It is top v bottom in League Two. Actually, make that runaway top v marooned bottom.

Cove Rangers and the Glebe Park side are separated by 45 points in the table and the hosts are yet to lose a league game on their own ground all season.

But Brechin manager Mark Wilson knows that there isn’t any fixture that can just be written off in their perilous situation.

“This is obviously as tough a game as they come,” he admitted. “Maybe if you’re in mid-table you can call it a ‘free hit’ but we can’t look at it that way. Every game we’ve got left is important to us.

“We’ll be going there believing that we can get something, though.

“We need to be disciplined and when we get chances – which we will – we have to take them.

“Nobody will be giving us a chance but look at what happened in midweek with Hamilton beating Rangers at Ibrox.

“Belief in what you’re trying to do is a huge thing.”

Ross Brown will be out for another couple of weeks and Jonathan Page will get a late fitness test.

● Cowdenbeath are out to right a wrong when they travel to Galabank this afternoon to face Annan Athletic.

Blue Brazil boss Gary Bollan is still smarting from the 1-0 defeat his side suffered on their last trip to face Peter Murphy’s side.

Bollan said: “I do believe that you make your own luck in football but in all my years going to Galabank it has never been a ground I would class as one where good fortune has shone on me.

“I have won there a few times but most of the time I have come away feeling disappointed.

“That was the case last November when we should have picked up three points.

“It would be good to win this one and move further away from that experience. The only way we will do that is by taking any chances that we create.”