Rovers faces allways at games over the years.

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Tin tin > > > must have been the only Doncaster skinhead ,I guess he still have a short back and sides crop today.last I heard he lived in Coventry.

Two bob shame > > > allways saw him outside train station at Doncaster before any away game and would go round asking everybody ' lend us two bob please' .he allways seemed to tap enough
money to get there by the end.

Charlie from thorne > > > still going strong today and if you have been a rovers regular for last 30 years on away games you will at least know Charlie by face.his quirk and still is was to get to whatever away game by opening time and have half a pint in as many pubs as possible and writting pub name down in his black book .
Said book must be some door stop by now  allways had a side kick with him called mick.

The chap that's on the front of the Viva rovers fanzine,never knew his name but saw him on OBV pop side loads of times during 1980s  allways had same red/white hat on.

There was a blind rovers fan I used to see all the time both at home/ away games back in the 1980s with his helper .whatever happened to him?

Paul mayfield > > > needs no introduction .

Please feal free to add

[IDM]

If you mean the blind man who by his appearance has been blind from birth, then I am sure he still goes, with a helper, and uses the west stand.

I first remember him in around 1982 at an away FA Cup early round at Chester's old ground.  We had just lost 3-1 and he was in the midst of the throng on the terraces shouting thr "beer beer we want more beer" chant...

[VivaRovers]

The chap that's on the front of the Viva rovers fanzine,never knew his name but saw him on OBV pop side loads of times during 1980s  allways had same red/white hat on.

I was told... a few months after we started putting him on the 'zine... that his name was Bernard Glover, and he was from Wheatley. Though I'd be surprised if you saw him on the Pop Side loads of times as I think he stood on the Main Stand terrace. That's certainly where he is on the photo I used as the basis for the fanzine ident.

[aidanstu]

Yeah we used to take Bernard along with us and always stood in the main stand. Sadly he passed a way a few years ago but a lovely man who loved the rovers.

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The chap that's on the front of the Viva rovers fanzine,never knew his name but saw him on OBV pop side loads of times during 1980s  allways had same red/white hat on.

I was told... a few months after we started putting him on the 'zine... that his name was Bernard Glover, and he was from Wheatley. Though I'd be surprised if you saw him on the Pop Side loads of times as I think he stood on the Main Stand terrace. That's certainly where he is on the photo I used as the basis for the fanzine ident.

Thanks for clearing that up for us that the said gent allways was on main stand terrace as that was
playing on me mind as I was allways on main stand terrace aswell.my memory is terrible .

Aidanstu thanks for giving me his name as I never knew it and now I find out that Bernard passed
away a few years ago that's ruined my weekend

RIP Bernard from mainstand terrace and thanks for the memories

[philsky]

Palo

Premo

[idler]

The thing about being an exile is that you always see basically the same faces at away games. You don't know the names of a lot and not living in Donny that is the only time that you see them unless you bump into them at a home game.
My first away game was 1962 and it's amazing how long some have been travelling away. A few seem to drop off every season or so though unfortunately as Father Time gets a grip.
True supporters, not glory hunters. I'll be driving over for the bus in an hour so I'll be seeing more faces that I've seen for years but no name.
Trying to snow here in Bradford so I hope it's warmer as we head south.

[ballysbackin]

I see the  Blind lad at the ground, believe West Stand..I am sorry to hear that Bernard has died (R.I.P.) I played one solitary game for Newton Hotel and Bernard was playing centre forward, even with his disability he tried his best, I played left side and sent in a centre (only thing that was of any good I must admit) Bernard ran in to meet it and the net bulged...Celebrations of him and the crowd were priceless. Again R.I.P. Bernard - save some room in the stands up there.

[GazLaz]

I always remember an old bloke who used to sit next to my grandad in the wheelchair bit at the front of the main stand. If anything that wasn't disastrous happened he'd just shout "that'll do". Me and my brother still say it now when we are watching footy. He's probably dead bless him but his saying lives on.

[Copps is Magic]

Pugsy

Matty Banks and father

Mayfield

Hanksy

Big fella with black hair, glasses (lives in Nottingham) goes to most away games.

Same old faces on North Branch pretty much every week.

[Chris Black come back]

Few stranger things than this.

Been going 25 years man and boy. Folk there basically seen me grow up. One constant over that quarter century has been Rovers. Spent times of great sorrow and great joy stood with them.

Literally no idea who they are or anything about them. 'Known' them longer than wives, girlfriends, outlived parents and grandparents but literally nowt you know about 99pc of those people around you whether it was Dover, Barrow, Stoke or Wembley.

All very odd if you think about it.

[Chris Black come back]

Pugsy

Matty Banks and father

Mayfield

Hanksy

Big fella with black hair, glasses (lives in Nottingham) goes to most away games.

Same old faces on North Branch pretty much every week.

Is the lad and father them two from the Jeremy Clarkson programme?

[the dons]

Archie  from Goldthorpe

Swayo.

[Copps is Magic]

Is the lad and father them two from the Jeremy Clarkson programme?

Yep, still looks almost exactly the same as he did back then.

[roversdude]

Palo still comes back now and again complete with tan and porn star tache
Premo not seen or heard anything of him for years- he moved over to the dark side chasing eggs last I heard. Could perhaps check bar at winning post

[darren61]

I remember Monty, Jock and Pailo,Pugsy and the bloke who wore a Batman costume for ages.

[GazLaz]

Is he still around, the pirate bloke.

[drfc1951]

I remember Winston and someone called Vic didnt know his surname,always on Tracky coaches.

[Bentley Bullet]

Who remembers Archie?

[Wild Rover]

Yep. I certainly do.

The Vicar has also been a constant ( at least since i met him in 1971, as either himself or Donny Dog).

[idler]

I think that Archie died some years ago according to Barry Watson.
I'm sure that he only seemed to go for about six years though.

[swifty50]

Dave Swainston aka swayo alas passed away a few years ago now, he was the landlord of the Flarepath Dunsville

[Copps is Magic]

Another name that has just popped into my head is "King Farouk" as Andy Liney used to call him on one of the coaches in the fancam days.

[philsky]

As were looking back - who was on THE coach !

Lighting playing cards and spinning them down the centre isle of the coach was never going to end well !

[ReadingViking]

The thing about being an exile is that you always see basically the same faces at away games. You don't know the names of a lot and not living in Donny that is the only time that you see them unless you bump into them at a home game.
My first away game was 1962 and it's amazing how long some have been travelling away. A few seem to drop off every season or so though unfortunately as Father Time gets a grip.
True supporters, not glory hunters. I'll be driving over for the bus in an hour so I'll be seeing more faces that I've seen for years but no name.
Trying to snow here in Bradford so I hope it's warmer as we head south.

Its pigging freezing in Reading and been snowing on and off all morning - so it looks like the game will be on - not looking forward to the M4 drive on a Friday evening though.  COYR

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Palo still comes back now and again complete with tan and porn star tache
Premo not seen or heard anything of him for years- he moved over to the dark side chasing eggs last I heard. Could perhaps check bar at winning post

Premo once walked all the way from conisboro to help clear snow from pitch at OBV and
was last seen as a kit man at the dons .

Paylo not seen him for years but I guess he is still baised out in Spain somewhere.

[roversdude]

Somewhere like that Oslo - was it palo in with Palace fans away in league cup years ago

[ballysbackin]

Who remembers Archie?

Archie lived in Goldthorpe, sad to hear he is in the upper tier stand. Probably sat with Haighy who was always with him and Winston and little Sue Hirst (Hyde Park I believe)

[STABNASTY]

Premo used to sup with us in the Winning Post and would run buses to games ever so often (usually at a loss to himself). I remember going in the back of a Luton van from the Winner to Cambridge and Burnley for Tuesday night games in the 80's. The Burnley game was the 1st time I can recall seeing a DDR calling card. Some of the lads in the van had them. If I remember correctly The Vicar was the driver of the van to Cambridge.
Last I heard was he had a bad fall down some steps while working for Bradford Park Avenue and due to complicatuions with the op to put it right, ended up disabled and in a nursing home in Edlo.

[roversdude]

Sorry to hear that STABNASTY he was a strange fish even at t'pit
If I remember wasn't he a ref on a Sunday morning too