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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · 2d

We really ought to have done this in the inside back cover of popular STAND fanzine

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Glen Wilson @glenglenglen.bsky.social · 6d

“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…

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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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · 10d

There’s a vacancy for him elsewhere in League One… be interesting to see if Blackpool go down the Bloomfield road

Luton Town FC @lutontown.co.uk · 10d

Luton Town Football Club has today parted company with manager Matt Bloomfield.

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · 21d

Gutted that the treble is off.

Never mind, the FA Cup is the big one anyway

Doncaster Rovers @drfcofficial.bsky.social · 21d

⏱️ FT | Defeat for Rovers despite a valiant effort at Spurs in the Carabao Cup

🔴 #drfc ⚪️

Recap the action ⬇️
www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/matches/firs...

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · 21d

Gifting Spurs a two goal head start is a bold tactic. Cant see it paying off to be honest. #DRFC #THFC

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · 24d

Oh wait, so have we. That and a few other fanzine back issues in fact…

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Back Issues

Such is the quality, the brilliance, the sagaciousness of popular STAND fanzine that most issues we print tend to sell out. However, sometimes, due to adverse weather conditions, optimistic print r…

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · 24d

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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popular STAND #107

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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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Sep 13

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.

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Glen Wilson @glenglenglen.bsky.social · Sep 12

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.

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oh yeah, naturally…
Jokingly confident, naturally pessimistic

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Sep 6

That’ll do.
End the season now
#DRFC

The current League One table, which has Doncaster Rovers in second place, behind leaders Cardiff City only on goal difference.

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 27

Trust us to draw Tottenham the season they remember how to play football.

#EFLCup

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 27

…then the assistant, then the physio… and if it’s still level after that it’s the mascot’s turn.

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 26

#DRFC win at Accrington to progress to round 3 of the League Cup.

It’s our year!

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 23

Currently watching forty plus Port Vale fans sit about glumly to a soundtrack of ‘Boogie Wonderland’… it’s like a piece of performance art.

popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

More from @sebsb.bsky.social

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.

www.nytimes.com

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

Seen from the back of their stand, a full away end of Doncaster Rovers fans watch their on the attack at Huddersfield Town

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Glen Wilson @glenglenglen.bsky.social · Aug 12

@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!

Doncaster Rovers @drfcofficial.bsky.social · Aug 12

⏱️ FT | ALL OVER! WHAT A WIN THAT IS!

We surge into the second round of the Carabao Cup

Middlesbrough 0-4 Rovers

🔴 #drfc ⚪️

Follow the action ⬇️
www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/matches/firs...

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 10

That’s why he’s paid the big bucks

Headline of a newspaper article that reads ‘Arne Slot says Liverpool ‘need to be better’ after Community Shield defeat’

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 9

That’ll do. End the season now.

Doncaster Rovers @drfcofficial.bsky.social · Aug 9

⏱️ FT | All over! Owen Bailey's late double wins it!

Mansfield Town 1-2 Rovers

🔴 #drfc ⚪️

Recap the action ⬇️
www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/matches/firs...

www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Aug 5

Da iawn!
Big boost this; brings exactly what the squad is otherwise lacking.

Doncaster Rovers @drfcofficial.bsky.social · Aug 5

HE. IS. BACK!

We are delighted to confirm the return of Charlie Crew on a season-long loan from Leeds United.

Welcome back, Charlie

Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/3vqYhXE

Rovers' summer recruitment is in association with @LtdStevenson

🔴 #drfc ⚪️

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popular STAND @vivarovers.bsky.social · Jul 28

Turns out Liz Truss hates Rotherham

A tweet from the former politician Liz Truss that reads 'Stop the invasion and stop the windmills'

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