Human memory is a funny thing. I can remember snatches of Doncaster Rovers last season in football’s fifth tier more clearly than I can recall my mum’s birthday. It’s either the 20th or 21st, but I’ll have to check with my sister; whereas I can still see ecstatic bodies tumbling out of the Pop Side in the wake of Tristan Whitman’s celebratory pitch-length run any time I close my eyes. Continue reading “podular STAND podcast: the 2002-03 season episode”
Football without fans is nothing. Ordinarily. Now, apparently it’s a means of boosting the nation’s morale. Yep, of course we’ll all be perked up and completely over this country’s many thousands of the needless deaths once we can see Bournemouth getting turned over in an empty Etihad Stadium Continue reading “podular STAND podcast: the coronavirus episode”
Well, we just couldn’t hold it off any longer. Come with us, away from all this, to Saturday 27 April 2013, and to Griffin Park. The League One promotion race has come down to a 90 minute final day showdown between 3rd place Brentford and 2nd place Doncaster Rovers at Griffin Park. Only one team can go up. It couldn’t be any more dramatic than that… or could it? Continue reading “podular STAND podcast: the Brentford episode”
Brace yourselves for a kit clash. Or should that be a clash over kits? In the 16th episode of the popular STAND podcast, podular STAND, Glen Wilson, Jack Peat, and the returning James McMahon discuss their favourite and least favourite Doncaster Rovers shirts. Continue reading “podular STAND podcast: the football kit episode”
What makes a good football ground? That’s the key question addressed by Glen Wilson and Jack Peat in the 15th episode of the popular STAND podcast, podular STAND, as they discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of UK football grounds.
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Three relegations, two promotions, a best ever FA Cup run, ‘the experiment’, an epic play-off semi-final and that final minute at Griffin Park. It’s fair to say it’s not been a quiet decade for Doncaster Rovers. But who were the club’s stand put players through all that unrest and achievement? Continue reading “podular STAND podcast: the team of the decade episode”
98… 99… 100! Coming, ready or not, it’s the centenary edition of popular STAND fanzine. Yep, in an era when print was supposed to be dead we’ve blindly persisted to somehow emerge with a ton of editions and a readership larger than ever before. One hundred bloody issues, twenty one years, and still only £1. We spoil you, we really do. Continue reading “popular STAND fanzine issue 100”
Rovers have started to hit some good form at the most important time of the season, and this showed on a bright but chilly afternoon at the Keepmoat. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 2-0 Plymouth Argyle: 250 word match report”
Rovers pitched up at Valley Parade having not taken three points at any ground in Yorkshire, other than the Keepmoat, since 2014. Continue reading “Bradford City 0-1 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
It’s been a long old month or so at Rovers; disappointing defeats, frustrating draws, injuries to key players. But just as you may’ve been about to lose hope Tuesday came with some welcome cheer. Yep, issue 99 of popular STAND fanzine had been successfully sent off to the printers. Oh, and Rovers beat Bristol Rovers 4-1. Again.
