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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On the back of three straight wins optimism was high as I made the relatively short journey from Cheltenham to Sutton’s Gander Green Lane.
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Rovers came into this, a first home Football League match against Barrow since 1971, on the back of victories and two clean sheets.
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I doubt many of us would have been expecting a win from this game, however Swindon were undone and nullified by a comprehensively executed game plan.
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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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Rovers came into Tuesday night’s game on the back of three straight defeats; not ideal form with which to welcome the team that comprehensively defeated them on Boxing Day
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A first Saturday home league game since 29 October 2022 brought the visit of lowly Hartlepool to the Eco-Power Stadium.
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It’s really tempting to write ‘very’ 249 times and ‘bad’ once. But that could all too easily be a template for many a Rovers performance, in what has been a rather underwhelming campaign.
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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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