Author: Jack Peat

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Football and Food – an understated connection

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Football and Food – an understated connection

As anyone who has ever read one of my match reports for this publication will attest, food and football have long enjoyed an intimate relationship in my life. I care as much about the weight of a Cornish Pasty in Plymouth, the meat to mash ratio of the Craven Cottage cottage pie in Fulham or the white béchamel sauce in Middlesbrough’s famed Parmo as I do about the actual game itself, and it’s a connection others tend not to appreciate.

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Southend United 2-3 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report

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Southend United 2-3 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report

The key to a good five-a-side team is having a good keeper, a good centre forward and enough players in between to get in the way, I told Popular Stand editor Glen Wilson on the way up to Southend after my work team won their first game of the season. And so it was the case for Rovers in their opening game of the season. Continue reading “Southend United 2-3 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report” →

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VAR – Eats shoots and leaves

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VAR – Eats shoots and leaves

This season was always going to be a big one for football referees. The evolutionary scale has shifted once again from one man, one whistle to five men, one whistle, two flags, one board, umpteen cameras and one TV screen. We’ve dropped the wand-wielding idiots on the touchline, but we’ve inherited a far more dangerous precedent. Continue reading “VAR – Eats shoots and leaves” →

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Why ‘churnalism’ will be the death of club reporting

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Why ‘churnalism’ will be the death of club reporting

Oscar Wilde once wrote ‘there is only one thing in life worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.’ As Rovers fans filtered out of the Emirates Stadium after last month’s League Cup clash there’s reason to believe we’d just witnessed what Wilde was talking of first hand.

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Plymouth Argyle 2-0 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report

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Plymouth Argyle 2-0 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report

Cold, wet, miserable day out in the arse end of the country; by ‘eck this had better be a good game I thought to myself on the way to the ground, my mood momentarily lifted by an outstanding pasty out the back of a van. Continue reading “Plymouth Argyle 2-0 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report” →

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Exeter City 1-3 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report

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Exeter City 1-3 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report

On the way to Portsmouth last month, a mate joked that we only really make these trips to get tinned up in a new city, the actual football is the worst part. And if there was ever a game to validate that statement it was today’s clash with Exeter. Continue reading “Exeter City 1-3 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report” →