Playing with a level of urgency akin to a condemned man eating his last meal, Rovers accidentally sent Uncle Bulgaria and chums back to SW19 on the end of a 2-1 defeat.
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These days ‘The Hundred of Salford’ is the name given to Salford City’s away following, but at the time of the Domesday Book it was the title of this part of Lancashire and was held by Edward the Confessor, which is why we know so much about it.
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Doncaster Rovers welcomed Harrogate Town to the Eco-Power Stadium in this rearranged fixture. This was the first ever league meeting between the two sides and that’s about as interesting as it got.
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When you show absolutely no signs of scoring yourself I suppose the best you can achieve is managing to stop the opposition finding the net. And that is what Rovers achieved at Edgeley Park.
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“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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Rovers met Bradford City with play-off aspirations on the line, although a fairly even and uneventful first half soon came and went.
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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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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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