In the latest issue of the print fanzine we were delighted to include a fascinating article by Jack the Miner on the late great Charlie Williams. So great was it that we felt it deserved a much wider audience than our issue 59 circulation, and so we’re delighted to reproduce it here on the website for the enjoyment of all. Continue reading ““Yes, I have got coloured blood – it’s red””
Valentines Day. I suppose that’s as good a day as any to realise you no longer feel the attraction you once did. On Valentines Day Matt and I sat at the back of the West Stand and held something of a mid-match confessional. Whilst below us Gary Taylor-Fletcher, who looks more like the proprietor of a fish and chip shop at an out of season seaside resort than a footballer, meandered through the Rovers defence as if picking his way through pensioners in a shopping centre, we sat and confided to one another that we weren’t really enjoying this any more. Continue reading “Out of Love – On Finding it Hard to Follow Your Club”
The 2012-13 Football League fixtures are announced in the morning, but then you knew that. Tomorrow will not only be the day we get to discover when Rovers will play their 23 respective league opponents, but also one in which get to revel in just how much news agencies and official club websites can pad out what is in effect the publication of a list into a ‘news’ story. So whilst the press race to press ‘publish’ first thing in the morning the fanzine has decided to get the jump on them and enjoy a lie-in by publishing our fixture announcement piece tonight. Here you go… Continue reading “BREAKING: Rovers 2012-13 Fixtures Announced”
(from Issue 23, August 2003)
Just before Rovers took the throw in that led to Franny Tierney’s winner at Stoke our lass said to me ‘I hope they choose the lucky ball’ and I thought ‘only a girl would say that’. Now when I’m watching the video of the game, as soon as those two balls roll along the touchline I think to myself ‘come on, choose the lucky ball’. And we always do. Every single wonderful, glorious, fantastic, brilliant time. Continue reading “Jack The Miner’s Diary: Rovers Return”
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