“I can cope with being in the National League, relegation is part of being a football fan, but what I want is a sustainable club with decent morals and values and not one which is part of one man’s ego.”
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Think of the River Mersey and one place naturally comes to mind. Yep, that’s right… what? …No, Liverpool?! Are you mad? …No, we’re of course talking about Stockport, where the Mersey is formed by the merging of Tame and Goyt, a particularly underwhelming sounding solicitors, but also more crucially, the river’s two tributaries.
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There will be people who tell you that ‘the club’s fan base has never been so divided’ as it is right now. But to be honest, in the 12 years I’ve been editor of this fanzine, I can’t recall a single point where all Rovers fans have been united in their view on the club. Perhaps those 18 seconds at Griffin Park. But I suspect within a minute of James Coppinger tossing his shirt into the crowd, someone in the away end was criticising the club for missing out on a play-off pay day.
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Swindon is the biggest town in Wiltshire, a boast akin to being the tallest of Snow White’s seven dwarves. However until the 19th century it existed only as a small market town, which dealt primarily in barter. Stand down, Richard Keys, we said barter.
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The fourth most famous Mansfield, after Jayne, Keith and Bitter, the town of Mansfield has existed as a settlement since Roman times.
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Ultimately how you view Rovers trip to face the League Two leaders depends on whether you’re an optimist, a pessimist, or an ornithologist.
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As cranes tower over the city as far as you can see and luxury apartments are demolished to make way for even more luxury apartments, the centre of London ceases to be a city in its own right, one where people actually live, and instead evolves into a cross between an old boys club and a duty free lounge. But whilst London becomes anywhere, Leyton is very much London.
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Like Boxing Day Rovers started brightly against Rochdale; but thankfully that was where the similarities with Monday ended, as by 10 minutes Doncaster were already two goals ahead.
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At the Prenton Park ticket desk pre-match a supporter was arguing his case to be allowed to buy a ticket for the away end. The staff were unmoved and he left ticketless. The lucky bastard.
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In early 2012 one-time Doncaster Rovers midfielder Paul James released his autobiography. In Cracked Open the Canadian international talks frankly about the cocaine addiction he suffered during his later career as a coach. He also looks back at his playing career, including his brief time as a Rover. Ahead of issue 59 of popular STAND, subscriber Ralph Davies sent us the excerpt from James’ book which focussed on what proved to be an eye-opening spell at Belle Vue for the then 24-year old.
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