Premier club, Accra Hearts of Oak, are six times premier league champions. Though it may sound quite unbelievable, that is the exact truth.

"Kwaku Nsiah", as the Phobians prefer to call it, was the new baby which was officially outdoored and christened during the coronation at the Sunyani Coronation Park after Hearts’ hard-fought 1-1 draw against local Bofoakwa last Sunday.

With hindsight, the unprecedented sixth successive championship could be even sweeter for the followers of the rainbow colours, especially after a hopeless, jerky and troubling take-off which was characterised by a CAF Champions League fiasco.

Two characters who will be at the apex of this glory will be the new Chief Executive, Thomas Okine, and Coach Herbert Addo, both of whom assumed office at the beginning of the season when times were rough for the Phobians.

Having attained this height- this dream feat, the Phobians are now considering raising the standards even higher by winning the next four seasons to complete a decade’s reign.

On their way to the championship, however, Hearts still maintained the status quo as the top scoring club, with the least goals conceded. What was even a fitting icing on the cake was the crowning of two key players of the Hearts- Charles Taylor and Bernard Dong-Bortey - as the joint top scorers of the season with 18 goals apiece.

This is a clear case of keeping the goalking title in the rainbow family after their former striker, Ishmael Addo, had won the title in three straight seasons.

However, Hearts will be the first to admit that they had been through one hell of a season following the stiff challenge they encountered from their ageless rivals, Kumasi Asante Kotoko. As was revealed in the end, the Phobians edged out their opponents by virtue of the four points they gained in their two leg affair.

To underline their determination to wrest the title from the defending champions, Kotoko are on record to have contracted three different expatriate coaches - Ernst Middendorp, Ian Porterfield and Ralf Zumdick - but all to no avail.

But while Hearts feature in the Champions League next year, Kotoko will again have a consolation to compete in the Cup Winners Cup while Liberty Professionals who have now assumed the position of a third soccer force in the country contest in the CAF Cup.

For Dawu Youngsters and Maxbees who finished last, their lot can only be a fitting farewell to division one while Power FC await their unknown opponents for the play-off later.

Once again, Great Olympics lived up to their ‘wonder club’ accolade by emerging as the most sensational side in the just-ended league. At a point in the first round, they conceded as many as six defeats in a row and were lying bottom of the table.

Then burst on to the scene an unsung coach David Duncan to turn around their fortunes, completely leading them to their impressive fourth positioning in the final analysis. Most significantly, B.A. United and Prestea Mine Stars who joined the elite league at the beginning of the season escaped demotion. While United were persistent in running within the middle rungs of the table, Stars had to launch a eleventh-hour onslaught as the only of tasting premier soccer next season.