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Tequila! Tranmere's spirit fuelling fun-filled promotion push in League Two victory over Colchester Tranmere celebrated a sixth successive League Two victory at Colchester Rovers last achieved that in March ’91 and are targeting successive promotions  A version of The Champs' 1958 hit 'Tequila' emanated from the away end The 2-0 scoreline signified Colchester's third consecutive league defeat

By Matt Barlow for the Daily Mail

Published: 22:31 GMT, 24 March 2019 | Updated: 23:46 GMT, 24 March 2019

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The march of Birkenhead’s mariachi regiment on Britain’s first Roman city was complete and anyone present will begin the week with a ‘Tequila!’ worm still wriggling in their ear.

This is the sound of Tranmere Rovers on the rise, with nearly 500 in the away end celebrating a sixth successive victory to the tune of their own version of The Champs’ infectious 1958 hit and its one-word chorus.

‘That was mega, wasn’t it,’ chuckled manager Micky Mellon. ‘We had Colchester fans behind us joining in. This new tequila one, they were bobbing about to that.’

James Norwood scored his 26th goal of the season in Tranmere's 2-0 win at Colchester

FOOTBALL LEAGUE TOP SCORERS

James Norwood (Tranmere) - 26

Teemu Pukki (Norwich) - 24

Billy Sharp (Sheffield United) - 22 

This, if Mellon’s ears were not actually playing tricks, represents an admirable sense of fun on behalf of the home crowd, as their team slumped to a third defeat in a row.

Rather, it was all about the visitors, with momentum gathering fast and the prospect of back-to-back promotions taking shape. Little wonder they are rocking all over the Wirral after the misery of three years out of the Football League.

Tranmere have not won six on the spin since March ’91, a heady sequence which propelled them in to the second tier via the play-offs and launched a golden era when they threatened to storm the top flight with John Aldridge and Ian Muir up front and John McGreal, now Colchester manager, at the back.

Mellon’s team have kept six clean sheets in eight games. They are honest, organised and balanced.

In Scott Davies they have a goalkeeper making fabulous

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