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Title: Old newspaper article
Post by: number19 on April 15, 2020, 03:13:52 pm

Found this one clearing through a load of old programmes and other rovers stuff I'd had saved away.

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Title: Re: Old newspaper article
Post by: roversdude on April 18, 2020, 09:31:17 am

Sent shivers down my spine

Title: Re: Old newspaper article
Post by: Dutch Uncle on April 18, 2020, 09:38:27 am

Body’s aching all the time....

Title: Re: Old newspaper article
Post by: IDM on April 18, 2020, 09:50:39 am

It was “very very frightening” at the time..

Title: Re: Old newspaper article
Post by: rich1471 on April 18, 2020, 10:17:13 am

Padi Wilson ,remember him as the hope then got arrested

Title: Re: Old newspaper article
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on April 19, 2020, 06:22:52 pm

I see the standard of Mail journalism was as bad back then.

The Telegraph ran a similar piece in which they gave Weaver carte blanche to tell his own side of the story, and the journalist sprinkled it with shit jokes like the car park being the only thing with more holes than the defence. Pathetic, bone idle journalism while a proud club was being eviscerated.

Tell you what is the most disgusting thing about that Mail piece though. Allowing that Kitson Weaver to call Doncaster Rovers "My Club". It was never yours, you cringing little piece of shit. It was ours. Always. You and your bas**rd boss just stole it for a while.

Title: Re: Old newspaper article
Post by: rich1471 on April 21, 2020, 12:31:58 am

still have my home made  Richardson and weaver leaver leave or die banner at home , even after all these years and im not a hateful person but they made my blood boil , horrible people   

Title: Re: Old newspaper article
Post by: BobG on April 21, 2020, 11:02:59 pm

I still have a t shirt with Firestarters' face on it. I think the legend reads 'Rot in Hell'. Two of the most unpleasant men it's ever been my misfotune to come across.

BobG

Title: Re: Old newspaper article
Post by: elmsallrover on April 22, 2020, 12:21:55 am

Didn't he have a rovers fan as a bouncer

Title: Re: Old newspaper article
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on April 22, 2020, 01:00:19 am

Quote from: BobG on April 21, 2020, 11:02:59 pm

I still have a t shirt with Firestarters' face on it. I think the legend reads 'Rot in Hell'. Two of the most unpleasant men it's ever been my misfotune to come across.

BobG

Bob. That Telegraph piece I mentioned up there. You kept me sane when that was published. I remember mailing you about it and screaming that I wanted to do....something. And you and your dad were channelling that sort of anger into a much more effective takedown of Weaver and his organ grinder.

Thanks for that. I suspect I'd have spontaneously combusted if your website hadn't been giving me hope that there was still some future for the club.

Title: Re: Old newspaper article
Post by: Guernsey Exile on April 22, 2020, 10:41:51 am

Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on April 22, 2020, 01:00:19 am

Quote from: BobG on April 21, 2020, 11:02:59 pm

I still have a t shirt with Firestarters' face on it. I think the legend reads 'Rot in Hell'. Two of the most unpleasant men it's ever been my misfotune to come across.

BobG

Bob. That Telegraph piece I mentioned up there. You kept me sane when that was published. I remember mailing you about it and screaming that I wanted to do....something. And you and your dad were channelling that sort of anger into a much more effective takedown of Weaver and his organ grinder.

Thanks for that. I suspect I'd have spontaneously combusted if your website hadn't been giving me hope that there was still some future for the club.

Is the website still around somewhere?