The problem with paint drying is that it’s hard to know what you are going to get. You’ve painted the fireplace wall and returned after supper to find it is bone dry, but take the same paint with a matt finish and apply it to the upstairs bathroom and all of a sudden you’re left red faced with paint all over your paws.
Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 0-0 Fleetwood Town: 250 word match report”
A sunny day out at the Keepmoat heralded frustration for both Rovers and Rochdale as neither team lived up to their promise. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-1 Rochdale: 250 word match report”
Unbelievable really. Rovers were much the better team, but yet again paid the price for defensive vulnerability. Continue reading “Sheffield United 3-2 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
Typical really. You pen a thoughtful fanzine article detailing why Paul Dickov deserves more time, then come the day you sell it his team deliver a performance that is inexcusably abject. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 0-3 Bradford City: 250 word match report”
Doncaster travelled to the Ricoh on the back of two disappointing home defeats, but having beaten Coventry on Boxing Day, hopes remained high. Continue reading “Coventry City 1-3 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
A cold night, but the much-depleted Keepmoat crowd saw Rovers start brightly; Kyle Bennett and Nathan Tyson causing Swindon’s defence problems, but lacking a final product. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-2 Swindon Town: 250 word match report”
The day started with me too nervous to eat and ended with me unable to eat, in case it stuck in my throat – Rovers had not read the script. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 0-2 Peterborough United: 250 word match report”
You hear ‘goal out of nothing’ often at football matches; rarely has it been more fitting than Rovers’ opener here. The surprise at Harry Forrester’s free-kick finding the net being emphatically magnified by the forty minutes of vacuous wind-disrupted nonsense of twenty-two men repeatedly failing to control a football which had preceded it. Continue reading “Gillingham 1-1 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
“We’re going to win today” I’m told before the game. We all agree. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 2-0 Colchester United: 250 word match report”
‘Aye, but it’s Yeovil… we never beat bloody Yeovil’. Thankfully the doom of the old fella I told to cheer up was ill-mongered, as our one time bogey side were despatched for a third time in four meetings. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 3-0 Yeovil Town; 250 word match report”
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