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Football at all levels has a dangerously insane relationship with its referees, but in non-league it also comes with a chasm between reality and foaming Twitter activists who've never been to a game.
This week's newsletter is on the AFC Rushden & Diamonds v Coventry Sphinx match abandonment.
This week's newsletter is on the AFC Rushden & Diamonds v Coventry Sphinx match abandonment.
Rushden & Diamonds match abandonment was the right response from the referee. Non-league deserves a better reaction.
The idiotic opinions of social media meatheads have no bearing on football safeguarding in the real world
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November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Football at all levels has a dangerously insane relationship with its referees, but in non-league it also comes with a chasm between reality and foaming Twitter activists who've never been to a game.
This week's newsletter is on the AFC Rushden & Diamonds v Coventry Sphinx match abandonment.
This week's newsletter is on the AFC Rushden & Diamonds v Coventry Sphinx match abandonment.
Chesterfield away then.
A tricky draw and, as our recent form against them suggests, very losable.
I really hope they’ve chosen to concentrate on the league this year.
#FACup
A tricky draw and, as our recent form against them suggests, very losable.
I really hope they’ve chosen to concentrate on the league this year.
#FACup
November 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Chesterfield away then.
A tricky draw and, as our recent form against them suggests, very losable.
I really hope they’ve chosen to concentrate on the league this year.
#FACup
A tricky draw and, as our recent form against them suggests, very losable.
I really hope they’ve chosen to concentrate on the league this year.
#FACup
Big fan of Carlisle United managing to score their winning goal before their own equaliser today
November 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Big fan of Carlisle United managing to score their winning goal before their own equaliser today
Why does Connor O’Riordan look so terrified of a return to Crewe?
What horrors has he seen there?
What horrors has he seen there?
WATCH | Connor O'Riordan is putting emotions to one side as he returns to hometown club Crewe Alexandra with Rovers in the Emirates FA Cup
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October 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Why does Connor O’Riordan look so terrified of a return to Crewe?
What horrors has he seen there?
What horrors has he seen there?
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Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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October 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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We really ought to have done this in the inside back cover of popular STAND fanzine
After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle
October 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We really ought to have done this in the inside back cover of popular STAND fanzine
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“You’re hundreds of miles from home, you’re cold, you’re soaked through, you’ve lost two nil… you wouldn’t swap this for anything”
It’s 10 years ago today that Wales qualified for Euro 2016 in a suitably Welsh way. And I wrote this report-come-mini-novella on the experience of it all…
It’s 10 years ago today that Wales qualified for Euro 2016 in a suitably Welsh way. And I wrote this report-come-mini-novella on the experience of it all…
Zen, Zenith, Zenica; Losing and Winning with Wales in Bosnia
As you edge through the gloom, towards the away terrace, the reality of the enormity of the game hits you. This really could be it.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
“You’re hundreds of miles from home, you’re cold, you’re soaked through, you’ve lost two nil… you wouldn’t swap this for anything”
It’s 10 years ago today that Wales qualified for Euro 2016 in a suitably Welsh way. And I wrote this report-come-mini-novella on the experience of it all…
It’s 10 years ago today that Wales qualified for Euro 2016 in a suitably Welsh way. And I wrote this report-come-mini-novella on the experience of it all…
There’s a vacancy for him elsewhere in League One… be interesting to see if Blackpool go down the Bloomfield road
Luton Town Football Club has today parted company with manager Matt Bloomfield.
October 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
There’s a vacancy for him elsewhere in League One… be interesting to see if Blackpool go down the Bloomfield road
Gutted that the treble is off.
Never mind, the FA Cup is the big one anyway
Never mind, the FA Cup is the big one anyway
⏱️ FT | Defeat for Rovers despite a valiant effort at Spurs in the Carabao Cup
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September 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Gutted that the treble is off.
Never mind, the FA Cup is the big one anyway
Never mind, the FA Cup is the big one anyway
If you’re hankering after some reading from the recent #DRFC past, @stanchionbooks.bsky.social have got a copy of issue 107 of popular STAND going…
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From the publisher: February 2022 issue of this long-running Doncaster Rovers fanzine. --- 15 x 21 cm Paperback 40 pages February 2022 English
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September 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If you’re hankering after some reading from the recent #DRFC past, @stanchionbooks.bsky.social have got a copy of issue 107 of popular STAND going…
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Probably should’ve known it wasn’t going to be our day today when they ran out of pies before kick-off in the away end.
At Wigan.
Where the mascot is a 6ft anthropomorphic pie.
At Wigan.
Where the mascot is a 6ft anthropomorphic pie.
September 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Probably should’ve known it wasn’t going to be our day today when they ran out of pies before kick-off in the away end.
At Wigan.
Where the mascot is a 6ft anthropomorphic pie.
At Wigan.
Where the mascot is a 6ft anthropomorphic pie.
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There’s a single Sheffield United fan in our mainly Doncaster Rovers supporting group chat.
During their 5-0 loss at Ipswich he was picked out by the tv camera, looking very fed up, in a daft hat, in close up.
Just as he was thinking his night couldn’t get any worse, a buzzing began in his pocket.
During their 5-0 loss at Ipswich he was picked out by the tv camera, looking very fed up, in a daft hat, in close up.
Just as he was thinking his night couldn’t get any worse, a buzzing began in his pocket.
September 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
There’s a single Sheffield United fan in our mainly Doncaster Rovers supporting group chat.
During their 5-0 loss at Ipswich he was picked out by the tv camera, looking very fed up, in a daft hat, in close up.
Just as he was thinking his night couldn’t get any worse, a buzzing began in his pocket.
During their 5-0 loss at Ipswich he was picked out by the tv camera, looking very fed up, in a daft hat, in close up.
Just as he was thinking his night couldn’t get any worse, a buzzing began in his pocket.
God speed to those trying to get tickets for Tottenham away today.
The #DRFC website appears to be holding up about as well as Lewis Guy in an opposition penalty box
The #DRFC website appears to be holding up about as well as Lewis Guy in an opposition penalty box
September 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
God speed to those trying to get tickets for Tottenham away today.
The #DRFC website appears to be holding up about as well as Lewis Guy in an opposition penalty box
The #DRFC website appears to be holding up about as well as Lewis Guy in an opposition penalty box
September 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
August 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Consensus in the Donny R’sonists WhatsApp is that if all eleven players have taken a penalty in a shootout and it’s still not settled, then the managers should take one
August 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Consensus in the Donny R’sonists WhatsApp is that if all eleven players have taken a penalty in a shootout and it’s still not settled, then the managers should take one
August 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Currently watching forty plus Port Vale fans sit about glumly to a soundtrack of ‘Boogie Wonderland’… it’s like a piece of performance art.
In a pub just outside Vale Park for a post-match pint. Other than me and two others it’s all Vale fans.
They’ve a DJ on who really hasn’t read the room, banging out disco and old school soul tunes never mind that getting humped 1-0 at home really isn’t a ‘Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)’ vibe.
They’ve a DJ on who really hasn’t read the room, banging out disco and old school soul tunes never mind that getting humped 1-0 at home really isn’t a ‘Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)’ vibe.
August 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Currently watching forty plus Port Vale fans sit about glumly to a soundtrack of ‘Boogie Wonderland’… it’s like a piece of performance art.
In a pub just outside Vale Park for a post-match pint. Other than me and two others it’s all Vale fans.
They’ve a DJ on who really hasn’t read the room, banging out disco and old school soul tunes never mind that getting humped 1-0 at home really isn’t a ‘Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)’ vibe.
They’ve a DJ on who really hasn’t read the room, banging out disco and old school soul tunes never mind that getting humped 1-0 at home really isn’t a ‘Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)’ vibe.
August 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In a pub just outside Vale Park for a post-match pint. Other than me and two others it’s all Vale fans.
They’ve a DJ on who really hasn’t read the room, banging out disco and old school soul tunes never mind that getting humped 1-0 at home really isn’t a ‘Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)’ vibe.
They’ve a DJ on who really hasn’t read the room, banging out disco and old school soul tunes never mind that getting humped 1-0 at home really isn’t a ‘Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)’ vibe.
The clearest sign yet, in a crowded field, that top flight football is no longer for us.
It’s just a different world that, frankly, looks really tiring
It’s just a different world that, frankly, looks really tiring
The Bundesliga has become the first major European football league to award part of its live broadcasting rights in the United Kingdom to a content creator, with That’s Football — a channel hosted by the online personality Mark Goldbridge — to show matches this season.
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YouTuber Mark Goldbridge among Bundesliga’s UK broadcast partners for this season
The new agreement is due to be announced today and is expected to be in place for the Bundesliga’s first round of games.
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August 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The clearest sign yet, in a crowded field, that top flight football is no longer for us.
It’s just a different world that, frankly, looks really tiring
It’s just a different world that, frankly, looks really tiring
Thought #DRFC looked really good tonight; controlled most of the match and reduced Huddersfield to counter attacks.
But we’re a decent striker (or at least one that fits the system we’re playing) away from being a good side. And until we find one results like tonight will happen in this division.
But we’re a decent striker (or at least one that fits the system we’re playing) away from being a good side. And until we find one results like tonight will happen in this division.
August 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Thought #DRFC looked really good tonight; controlled most of the match and reduced Huddersfield to counter attacks.
But we’re a decent striker (or at least one that fits the system we’re playing) away from being a good side. And until we find one results like tonight will happen in this division.
But we’re a decent striker (or at least one that fits the system we’re playing) away from being a good side. And until we find one results like tonight will happen in this division.
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@danielgraywriter.bsky.social @camsell59.bsky.social Bob Mortimer, the bloke in the facilities team at work whose randomly started wearing a ‘Boro shirt to work… your boys took a hell of a beating!
⏱️ FT | ALL OVER! WHAT A WIN THAT IS!
We surge into the second round of the Carabao Cup
Middlesbrough 0-4 Rovers
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We surge into the second round of the Carabao Cup
Middlesbrough 0-4 Rovers
🔴 #drfc ⚪️
Follow the action ⬇️
www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/matches/firs...
August 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@danielgraywriter.bsky.social @camsell59.bsky.social Bob Mortimer, the bloke in the facilities team at work whose randomly started wearing a ‘Boro shirt to work… your boys took a hell of a beating!
That’s why he’s paid the big bucks
August 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
That’s why he’s paid the big bucks