My grandmother, a Lancastrian, nursed a lifelong disdain for Wigan and its inhabitants. I can’t say I share this, because Wigan Athletic have been unwontedly generous to Rovers; they haven’t beaten Doncaster for 20 years and haven’t won here for 28. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 3-1 Wigan Athletic: 250 word match report”
They say there’s only one stat that matters in football. Unfortunately for Rovers, it’s not the number of corners. Continue reading “Bury 1-0 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
‘You’re having a laugh aren’t you?’ some fella shouted at me as I tried to sell fanzines after the match. ‘No mate,’ I replied, ‘I’m a Rovers fan’. Fifteen games without a win offers little mirth, and after Friday’s capitulation at Colchester hope was on similarly short supply. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 0-1 Blackpool: 250 word match report”
‘Like butter through a knife, butter through a knife,’ yelled the fella behind me as Colchester ambled through the Rovers defence to score their fourth goal. Whilst Rovers had not quite been so bad as to reverse the laws of physics, they had plumbed new depths of awfulness in a torrid ninety minutes in which they managed to make the third tier’s worst club look like Barcelona. Continue reading “Colchester United 4-1 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
The now customary pre-match gloom was today leavened by the news that James Coppinger had returned to the starting line-up. Could he be the man to turn Rovers’ fortunes and initiate a climb from the wrong end of the table? Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-2 Peterborough United: 250 word match report”
SAME OLD STORY FOR NEW-LOOK ROVERS
Like Doncaster Rovers circa 2016, the England cricket team of the 1990s boasted a Gooch and a Stewart in their ranks. They also often gave the impression that their team had been selected via the expedient of drawing names out of a hat. Rovers’ XI for the ‘must win’ game against Shrewsbury Town suggested some kind of random process at work.
Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 0-1 Shrewsbury Town; 400 word match report”
No doubt past comparisons have been made between these towns. Both steeped in railway history, both now hoping to become cities? Similar too in a love of football, similar in association with football scandals. Would this similarity off the pitch be echoed on it?
Continue reading “Swindon Town 2-0 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report”
Rovers went into this fixture low on confidence, in dire need of breaking their losing habit. Six minutes later, Paul Keegan delivered a perfectly weighted back-header into the path of Millwall’s Steve Morison, who deftly chipped Thorsten Stuckmann to put the visitors ahead. It was the archetypally random sort of error that only happens when you’re on bad run. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-1 Millwall; 250 word match report”
A second South Yorkshire derby in the space of the week saw out of form Rovers travel to Oakwell to face in-form Barnsley. Continue reading “Barnsley 1-0 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report”
Another inevitable home defeat – we even debate in the pub before the match how many we’ll lose by at the Keepmoat. But this one had some redeeming features, most of which concerned our opponents. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-2 Walsall: 250 word match report”
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