Late Tackle

DONNY DISMAY

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
1 March 2018

IAN McFARLANE LOOKS BACK AT DONCASTER ROVERS’ NIGHTMARE SEASON TWO DECADES AGO

IAN McFARLANE

AFTER a New Year of ale and laughter, it was time to settle down and take in my team Peterborough United’s clash with Doncaster Rovers at the ABAX Stadium/London Road.
But my thought process took me back, 20 years in fact, to Doncaster’s perilous fourth tier season. Never have I seen a league side as poor as that, both on and off the pitch.
Then again, it was hardly a great surprise bearing in mind what had been going on at the club. A fire at their Belle Vue ground in 1995 c...

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