Away day stories

[scunnyspireite]

Has anybody got any funny stories they would like to share regarding following Rovers over the years? I'm collecting them for a website at www.awayend.co.uk. Not got any Donny stories yet so some would be nice.

Cheers

[not on facebook]

got some classics but they mainly are around the football casual culture
so might not fit into your book

but you only have to ask i will fire 'one' into your direction

[scunnyspireite]

Nice one, sounds like a long night. Anything goes really aslong as its not offensive. Ok if I add this one to the site?

[kyle17balby]

i got kicked out at middlesbrough for wearing a suit.... ha

[kyle17balby]

i got kicked out atmiddlesbrough for wearing a suit.... ha

[roversdude]

Caught train home after we got beat by Palace in league cup only to run into a load of geordies wearing black and white kilts building the biggest beer can tower ive ever seen. Thought we were going to get a proper pasting but they turned out to be top lads.

[not on facebook]

ok here goes then

chester city v doncaster rovers conference 2nd leg play off's 1-1 form first game
winners will play daggerham redbridge at stoke,winner getting a place in league2

cant recalll exact date of game only that it was a bank holiday monday.
the 'ddr' (donnys firm) were 90 handed for this game.what with what was at stake and also doncaster had played chester only a few weeks before in the conf to which the doncaster normall fans had been getting a rough ride from the chester lads,payback i guess was in ddr's lads minds.

we are all getting off chester train station just before 11.00 and looking for a pub to drink in,mistake was since it was bank holiday monday pubs did not open till noon.so it was only about 15-20mins by time local police had got all ddr lads rounded up,'game over' as you would say in the game.

but fair play to the police they did knock on the door of a chester pub and basically order the landlord to open his doors for us, landlord had pound signs in his eyes and was more than happy as his small pub was full and the tills were raking it in.

police said 'you will stay in this pub untill 14.30,where you will all then be escorted
down to deva  stadium,nobody is going to leave this pub for whatever reason before hand'...also  the police stood on the front door of the pub only letting in other rovers fans as chester fans were turned away.

there must have been 6bobbys on the front door at all times,thats not too mention the 4 police vans that were parked up at top of street outside said pub, full of the so called police escort.

so on the football violence front it looked like a non starter'donny lads settled down
playing pool,duke box was roaring and ale was going down a treat.by 13.00 ddr lads
were getting restless as they needed their 'fix',so ways of trying to get out of pub
was cropping up,but the police on the door were more than firm.

so out in the beer garden at back of pub,there was a fence allway round the beer garden.now funny thing is this fence looked very new and the type where you put in
fence posts every few metres then you just slide the fence pannels in...'easy in'
and as the saying goes 'easy out'...which was bang on...couple of ddr lads removed one whole fence pannel in the corner

word then got round inside the pub and everyone was told to leave in two's and threes
without drawing too much attention from police stood on front door outside and landlord.
after about 10mins 80+ ddr lads have left the pub via missing fence pannel,with all the police stood at the very top of the road arms folded with backs to bottom of street where ddr had to cross then on into the city centre.
as we was crossing the street we was all humming the 'great escape' theme tune to r
sens.

back to the pub there is about 10 lads left inside,the police walk in to check round as the only way police do,all they could see was pint after pint of left drinks,fags still smouldering away in ash trays and only 10 lads out of 90 in the pub

they ask landlord 'where are all doncaster lads'....'dont know maybe thet are all in beer garden....police go into beer garden see missing fence pannel and go form defco 5
down to defcon 1 in matter of mins

to this day i just wish the last ddr lad going out of that beer garden would have put the missing fence pannel back,that would have got the police thinking and still
 for looking us today.

was at chester racers sometime after the above and was talking to some chester lads,they told us that the chester police had a file one inch thick on how they palne to keep the chester and donny lads apart and by 13.15 the file had been blown apart as the 'fix' was happening.


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[ferribyrover]

Love it. IF you are going to get \"locked up\" by the old bill where better than in the pub. And you still weren't happy!

[roversdude]

yeah and then we got locked in a pub at stoke too, with double decker buses to fery us to ground

[intake rover]

rochdale 1990. getting mullered all over the place by what turned out to ne nf lads from manchester. i was first of many out side pub near ground to get a good kicking. it wernt funny then but funny now, anyone else remember that

[kimble]

no

[not on facebook]

roachdale away, when there was nf march that day in roachdale...as pointed out intake
seemed as thou lots of donny lads that day came home with broken bones or if lucky
cuts and limps kicked out of them

[The Duke]

Good day at chester wasnt it oslo. Monty had to have his stomach pumped was proper funny after a bottle of after shock lol.

[intake rover]

got me arm broke at rochdale that day, think 3 of us did

[dumbroofer]

some years ago to many to mention we were going to blackpool to watch the rovers my dad driving n my grandad the navigator,once past manchester we spotted a red n white scarf hanging from a car window ,follow that car was the call they will know where the ground is. anyway we followed then lost said car,so pulled up outside a pub where i asked if they could tell me where blackpools football ground is,and in the best scouse accent he told me ,it will be in fooking blackpool id think,managed to get there for the second half.

[Mike_F]

Similarly away at Hereford when JR made his appearance there I wasn't sure on the best route home. We saw a rovers scarf in theback of the car in front and decided to follow it out to the main road. As we passed through town we saw a few of the DDR lads strolling up to a pub. We proceeded to follow this motor for about 7 or 8 miles until it turned into a country house hotel where the occupants were evidently staying for the weekend!

We retraced our journey back towards Hereford and saw said DDR boys looking like they'd had a bit of a set-to and wandering down the high street as the plod turned up in a cuple of black mariahs outside the pub just in time to be just too late.