There are some things reassuringly timeless and permanent that make Rovers, well, Rovers – Paul Mayfield, Dr Erskine, Peter Wetzel and of course, James Coppinger. Always James Coppinger. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 2-0 Stalybridge Celtic: 250 word match report”
I read an article this week about how a huge FBI raid has led to a worldwide shortage of LSD. On the evidence of the Bristol City away kit, there’s still plenty knocking about in the South West. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-1 Bristol City; 250 word match report”
As anyone who’s watched football for the majority of their life will testify, there are good games and there are bad games. And, as anyone who’s watched Rovers for most of the season so far will argue, this is nonsense. There are terrible games too. Continue reading “Oldham Athletic 0-1 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
Having been hugely let down ten days earlier – not by the postponement, but by the realisation the hosts’ mascot is a weird seagull, and not a big horse in a cape called Weston the Super Mare – we chose not to revisit the Somerset coast. Instead, we phone in this report from the sofa. Continue reading “Weston-Super-Mare 1-4 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report”
We’re men of the world here at popular STAND, and so we realise that on occasion, there comes a time when you feel the need to seek alternate pleasure. Football sadly is not solely a game played by men (or women) in red and white hoops and so sometimes circumstances dictate that we must watch other people play. Rather than see this practice go underground we’ve taken steps to ensure it can be controlled and so have come up with a feature in which it can exist in small doses. In Playing Away we recount our tales of watching others play, starting with Editor Glen Wilson‘s trip to the seaside. Continue reading “Playing Away: Bridlington Town vs Whitley Bay”
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