Rovers have announced today that local-legend and rumoured founder member Mickey Walker has been released from his contract at the club. Walker, now 67, has been relinquished from his role as part of restructuring at the club following relegation from the Championship, after twelve years with the club. Continue reading “Taking The Mickey”
An interesting week for Paul as he was able to get his teeth into some proper transfer news rather than the usual rumour-mongering. And speaking of transfers, if anyone is interested Paul Raven is available on a swap deal, ideally for another player who’s name sounds more like John Craven so we don’t have to keep explain the title of this feature to people. Continue reading “Paul Raven’s Newsround 29.06.12”
James Hayter has gone. Released at the end of the season, he this week joined Yeovil Town amidst generally wistful clattering from Rovers fans; tweets and forum posts wishing him well and commenting on how he’ll always be remembered for THAT goal. Because James Hayter didn’t score a goal at Wembley against Leeds, he scored THAT goal. His place in Rovers’ folklore seemingly defined by randomly deployed capitalisation. Continue reading “Hayters Gonna Hate”
Disappointment for the Doncaster Rovers Belles on Saturday, as two great strikes from visitors Liverpool proved the difference between the two FAWSL sides. The 2-0 defeat drops the Belles back to the foot of the table as the League pauses for a mid-season break for international and Olympic fixtures Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers Belles 0-2 Liverpool: match report”
Eyes down and look in, a much busier seven days for Paul Raven to recap in his Newsround this week, including familiar new owners, fixture fun, Belles back in action, non-transfer rumours, and a not-quite international. Continue reading “Paul Raven’s Newsround 22.06.12”
After some thorough research the fanzine has discovered that unfortunately Mustapha Dumbuya did not feature for Sierra Leone in the African Cup of Nations 1st round match against Sao Tome & Principe at the weekend. The match, played in Freetown on Saturday, finished 4-2 to Sierra Leone, giving them a 5-4 win on aggregate, but further details on the game had been hard to come by following a media blackout of the match. Continue reading “Dumbuya Misses Out on International Debut”
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”
Rather than attempting to pad out snippets of news into full page stories, we’ve decided to take a different approach to your typical blog when it comes to Rovers news. And so we are delighted to introduce Paul Raven’s Newsround, a weekly feature for this site which will bring you a round-up of all the latest Rovers related news from the past week every Friday. Continue reading “Paul Raven’s Newsround 15.06.12”
Another new season, another new home kit for the Rovers. The striking new design was revealed on the official club website this week, with the news that it will be formally launched, and available to buy, at the fans’ forum event at the Stadium on Monday evening. Continue reading “Rovers Launch New Home Kit”
The Belles FAWSL Continental Cup sojourn is over after defeat in their final group game away at Birmingham City. A goal in each half from Eni Aluko and Jodie Taylor proved enough to win it for the Blues who go on to face Lincoln in the semi-finals. Continue reading “Birmingham City 2-0 Doncaster Rovers Belles: match report”
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