Leaves are on the ground, Christmas decorations are starting to appear in shops, it can only mean one thing. Yep, it’s time for a World Cup.
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Editorial: Managerial hope not hate
When he was still a player, Gary McSheffrey dated a girl at our university. He even turned up for a Christmas Ball once, wearing a pair of remarkable brogues, and thus without prompting everyone who saw him in Lincoln’s Engine Shed that night remarked, ‘he’s smaller than you’d think… nice shoes though’. To the point that it became a catchphrase among our friendship group, used whenever he popped up in any of our football-watching lives. ‘I see your lot have signed McSheffrey, what’s he like?’ ‘Oh OK… smaller than you’d think… nice shoes though’.
Continue reading “Editorial: Managerial hope not hate”Grimsby Town 1-3 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report
After last week’s embarrassing FA Cup exit to non-league King’s Lynn, Rovers made the short trip to the seaside as they travelled to Cleethorpes to take on Grimsby Town.
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Colchester, as you’ll see as we move forward, is a town of bold claims. Its first is that it is Britain’s oldest recorded town. Not oldest town you understand. Just the first that someone felt compelled to write about.
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And to think we’d been so full of optimism in issue 109 back in August. Ordinarily we’d do an ‘if a week is a long time in politics it’s an age in football’ gag here, but given there’s no guarantee we’ll still have the same Home Secretary when I finish this sentence as we did when I began typing it, that comparison is a little redundant. Still, it’s most definitely been a rollercoaster start to Rovers 2022-23 season.
Continue reading “popular STAND fanzine issue 110”Doncaster Rovers 0-1 King’s Lynn Town: 250 word match report
I’ve done several of these reports before and struck lucky with great games, high scores and talking points, but today my luck ran out. The immaculately observed Remembrance Day silence ultimately proved prophetic for pathetic Rovers.
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I can’t remember when I last saw Rovers beat Gillingham. Maybe I never have. Thankfully that run ended here as Rovers served up a very visual depiction of a work in progress.
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Grimsby is actually known as Great Grimsby, because people can be cruelly sarcastic. Contrary to the collective belief of the wider country and beyond, Grimsby is not, nor has it ever been, in Yorkshire. They should be so lucky.
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It’s not often you come away from a Rovers home defeat pleasantly surprised, but this 1-0 reverse against Stevenage was one such occasion.
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A day for questions; will Danny Schofield have already put his stamp on Rovers? Will we show signs of improvement? And why is every Crewe fan behind that goal a dark-haired teenager in monochrome clothing?
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