Remember when we feared Yeovil? Bogey team. ‘We always lose to Yeovil’. No more. Four games, four wins. Thirteen goals to one. It’d be lovely to play them every week; that is if they were decidedly nearer and didn’t regularly pitch up at our place in the worst away kits ever conceived. Continue reading “Yeovil Town 0-3 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
On a quiet late lunch hour, I noted Yeovil Town blog Best Team in the West, had done their best to hype up this Saturday’s match with ‘Five Reasons to Hate Doncaster Rovers’. An enjoyable read, and an admirable effort to bring some meaning to what is an otherwise nondescript league fixture – for both teams. Continue reading “Five Reasons to Hate Yeovil Town”
‘You started celebrating that before he hit it,’ said Matt of Conor Grant’s opening goal; driven in low from the edge of the area. He was right. Such has been Rovers’ ruthless effectiveness in recent weeks you just know when it’s coming. Today it happened to be 22 minutes; it could easily have been earlier. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 3-1 Crewe Alexandra: 250 word match report”
If you only witnessed the opening fifteen minutes of this game you could’ve been forgiven for wondering what all the fuss was about this Rovers team. Disjointed, lacking shape, struggling to keep the ball, and to cap it all a goal down – Niall Mason’s underhit back-pass picking out the division’s top scorer John Akinde, who gleefully notched another on his tally. Continue reading “Barnet 1-3 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report”
Earlier this month, popular STAND fanzine was crowned Fanzine of the Year at the 2016 Football Supporters’ Federation Awards. ‘I bet this makes all those late nights worth it,’ a lot of people have said to me in the days and weeks afterwards. It doesn’t. Not directly. I don’t want to seem disingenuous; it is a huge honour and something I am incredibly proud of, but it isn’t what makes the effort of putting the fanzine together worth it. Continue reading “popular STAND fanzine donates £1,000 to Doncaster charities”
Remind me never again to use the word ‘comfortable’ in a half-time update regarding Rovers. Three goals to the good with Stevenage having threatened only once, what could possibly go wrong? Continue reading “Stevenage 3-4 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report”
Though I don’t get to as many home Rovers games as I’d like; selling fanzines before the game helps give a good barometer of the likely outcome. The doom and desperation of last season has been replaced with a happy assuredness. Leyton Orient were there for the taking. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 3-1 Leyton Orient: 250 word match report”
Up on the Wembley big screens, as England were preparing to face Malta, the pre-match audio-visual assault of corporate messages paused long enough to herald the introduction of Dab Cam. As fans took their seats a roaming lens flitted about the stadium and zoomed in on supporters and remained fixed on their gurning faces until they made a misguided and peer-pressured attempt at performing ‘the dab’. And so, another new in-stadium phenomenon was instantly born; the Mexican Cringe. Continue reading “Dab Cams and Dud Cups; on the FA’s Failing of Lower League Clubs”
It’s supposedly a mark of a good team, to play badly and still pick up a win. So we must be bloody excellent having somehow scraped a 1-0 win in a match largely controlled by the visitors. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-0 Colchester United: 250 word match report”
Rovers flew out of the traps at the living Beamish Museum football exhibit that is Luton Town’s Kenilworth Road home. John Marquis missed a sitter of a header three minutes in, moments before effecting harrying from Donny’s front five saw an attempted clearance ricochet across the area for Andy Williams to head onto the crossbar. Marquis then did find the net, only to be denied by the assistant referee’s flag, before finally the inevitable was delivered by James Coppinger, smashing the ball home from a tight angle in front of the travelling fans. Continue reading “Luton Town 3-1 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
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