Bristol Rovers star climbs traffic lights and pours beer on head in wild promotion party

Bristol Rovers' Aaron Collins has had quite the season - and he made sure he let his hair down on Saturday night.

Earlier in the day Collins had scored twice in a quite simply extraordinary 7-0 win for the Gas against Scunthorpe United. That mammoth win ensured the most dramatic of promotions out of League Two for Rovers, despite not being in the top three for any part of the season.

They overtook Northampton Town - who won their final game of the season 3-1 at Barrow - by virtue of goals scored with both sides having otherwise identical records with each accruing 80 points with a goal difference of +22.

The Memorial Stadium was a scene of mass hysteria after the final whistle eventually blew, following a lengthy stoppage following an earlier pitch invasion.

Joey Barton's side can now celebrate an immediate return to the third tier following relegation last year. And by the looks of it they certainly partied hard into the night on Saturday. Star striker Collins, who finished on 16 league goals for the season, went viral on social media after a video emerged of him atop a set of traffic lights in the centre of Bristol surrounded by hundreds of partying Gas fans.

He then duly poured the rest of his can of beer over his head, and it seems the party went on long into the night for Collins, who tweeted a selfie at 11.30am on Sunday saying: "THE WHEELS ARE FALLING OFF. WE NEED A LIFT TO THE PUB."

Collins' boss Barton will no doubt be understanding of such celebrations given Rovers' most unlikeliest of promotions.

Speaking on Saturday night to reporters outside an understandably loud home dressing room, Barton said of the achievement: "I put our previous team talks up all around the dressing room and said it’s nothing you