In the classic Hollywood good versus evil trope; the good guys wear white, the bad guys wear black. Rotherham dressed for their role. Big, brutish, and ultimately heart-breaking; they duly nailed it. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-1 Rotherham United: 250 word match report”
‘F***ing shit’ shouted the bloke in front of me as we traipsed out of The Valley last Saturday. ‘Absolute garbage’. I wasn’t so sure. Frustrating I’d grant you; disappointing likewise, not quite good enough, sure. But what I’d just watched hadn’t been ‘shit’ – and I’ve supported Rovers long enough to know what ‘shit’ is. Continue reading “Editorial: When did we become so intolerable of averageness?”
Typical. You spend time crafting a reasoned, balanced fanzine editorial on how managers need time and things aren’t really that bad, then on the day it gets read your team forgets what football is. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 0-3 Walsall: 250 word match report”
Seven minutes in. It’s rare that you can pinpoint the exact moment that your hopes and dreams fade, but that was the time at which James Coppinger limped from The Valley pitch, and you just sensed it was all going to be uphill from there.
Continue reading “Charlton Athletic 1-0 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
Having run Arsenal close at the Emirates in midweek, players and fans alike pitched up at Home Park with decidedly more spring in their step; and the reignited confidence showed as Rovers rolled over Plymouth. Continue reading “Plymouth Argyle 0-3 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
Ten minutes in I feared a hiding. Ian Lawlor had already been called upon to make two smart saves, and a bloke behind me had just decreed two consecutive Rovers touches in Arsenal’s half of the field worthy of a song and dance. Continue reading “Arsenal 1-0 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
Sun in the sky, beer in the belly, feet on a terrace. This had all the makings of a great football away day. It’s just a shame, no-one told Doncaster Rovers. Continue reading “AFC Wimbledon 2-0 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
I’m not really sold on the book I‘m currently reading. It was recommended by a friend, so I’m giving it a fair go, but I’m 117 pages in and struggling to empathise with either the characters or the author. The main protagonist is from Yorkshire, but lives in London, yet any references to her life in Yorkshire are made as if written for a middle-class London audience. It’s cliched, dismissive to the point of patronisation, and I can’t get past it. Nor, given that the author is from and indeed lives in Yorkshire, can I begin to understand it. Continue reading “On visiting markets over cracking markets”
On Tuesday 29 August, Grimsby Town host Doncaster Rovers in the Checkatrade Trophy, but a large number of supporters won’t be there. Instead, they’ll be three miles down the road, on a pitch of their own, in opposition to each other, but also in opposition to the Football League. Continue reading “The fans kicking off against the EFL”
Among Rovers fans I’d spoken to there was a clear consensus on where the team’s strengths and weaknesses lie going into this season. Good going forward, but with a defence that could lapse into a Laurel & Hardy sketch at any given moment. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 0-0 Gillingham: 250 word match report”
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