Willie Irvine: Bo'ness Athletic's cup and league double a 'remarkable' achievement

That victory, coupled with a swash-buckling title-winning Third Division campaign, ensured that the Newtown Park side ended the season having only lost on a handful of occasions, with the group breaking a host of records in process.

"This hasn’t been a fluke,” Irvine told the Falkirk Herald. “We’ve had to really work hard but over the piece we have just produced again and again, we’ve been relentless and to win the league like we did, having only lost once, is quite remarkable.

"This won’t be done again, that’s for sure. Getting to this cup final wasn’t easy either, we played some top teams along the way, but we have performed well in each match.

"Once we settled down today I felt like there would only be one winner. The penalty miss from Dunipace changed the game for them and gave us a lift, but I wasn’t worried. If it went in I would have still had faith in the guys to deliver.

"With the firepower we have, it is always going to be difficult for the opposing team to keep us out for 90 minutes. Sometimes in a final you forgot to play and we maybe fell into that early on but we got back into doing what we do best – which is playing football.”

Irvine added: “We had Fraser Currid, Warren Paterson and Craig Sneddon all out too, and they are key players for us. The strength of the group came through. I was pleased for Liam (Campbell) saving the penalty.”