pic.twitter.com/sCmz2d8rUK. As the fans returned to the stand, Smith gave his hat to one supporter and his training top to another to avoid being identified – not by police, but by “cronies” of Richardson, who had made a habit of threatening any dissenting voices. Smith, however, has hung up his boots to manage the side. Having a Premier League and World Cup winner sat downstairs in his company’s office is common fare now for Mike. At Doncaster, his role was unofficially titled ‘Richardson’s puppet’, but at various stages of the season he was formally known as ‘shop manager’, ‘general manager’, ‘team manager’ and finally ‘player-manager’. From October to April Rovers wore a red kit with white panels on the sides of the shorts, plain red socks with a white band around the ankle and a buttoned collar; this kit was the only one worn by Doncaster this season to bear the club's crest. A poor football team was hardly a new phenomenon in South Yorkshire. “It was the unifying force for a group of us that really wanted to change things. It’s difficult then because you’re trying to do your own thing but also gel as a team. Despite promising not to attend, Weaver had the gall to show his face, prompting irate fury from the terraces, before eventually leaving at the behest of concerned police officers.

The latter could have been much worse had Orient not taken their two strikers off with 15 minutes left in an admirable act of sympathy. “That play-off final felt like an exorcism to me,” Smith says. I turned around and Alan Brown is behind me bawling his eyes out as well. Leading members of another group, Save the Rovers, received threatening phone calls in the early hours of the morning. But the following three matches proved it was just a blip: Notts County 5-2 Doncaster; Doncaster 0-3 Rotherham; Leyton Orient 8-0 Doncaster. He’s experienced now and will look to guide the younger centre back and keep things tight for Doncaster. He helped us to two clean sheets, bagged in a draw with Gateshead and has gone on to have a decent career. In the midst of the mayhem, Alan Brown, frontman of post-punk three piece Big Flame – who were once described by the Manic Street Preachers’ Richie Edwards as “the most perfect band” – ambled around the pitch to the Town End, chaining himself to the goalposts while all the attention was on his friends in the centre circle. Goalkeeper Gary Ingham and top scorer Prince Moncrieffe were dropped from Doncaster’s starting XI that day. Such a transient group of players were largely ignored by the fans. Loads of people put a lot of time and effort in. “To be honest I couldn’t take Weaver seriously. “I didn’t have that much contact with Richardson. Across the pitch there is evidence of Darren Moore putting together a patient, passing side but not quite getting it right yet. “Then Sir Francis Tierny scored the winner in golden goal and I just started bawling. Suspicion arose when a 10-1 outsider named Flockton Grey, owned by Richardson, entered its first race for two-year-olds at Leicester Racecourse.

“I honestly wonder whether some of them were paid to play badly. Can you name all 72 Football League clubs for the upcoming season. On TV, Sky Sports News presenters are getting increasingly excited by the breaking story that Liverpool have paid a record £67million to sign Roma goalkeeper Alisson Becker. Richardson aside, Weaver provoked the fury of Doncaster supporters more than any other figure at Belle Vue that season. A chance for players to meet the fans… except Weaver forgot to tell the fans. Come the start of the 1997-98 season, it did not take long for public opinion to turn firmly against Richardson; any fans still undecided about having an owner who was out on bail soon cottoned on that something wasn’t right when things started to go desperately wrong on the field.

Whiteman is a real talent too, he’s the leading passer of the ball in the Doncaster set up and is 24th in all of League One. And what about his fellow team-mates, were any of them paid to play badly? It was so emotional. Then it was hard to get motivated. I’m proud of what we all did. Doncaster sat on the most expensive site in the Football League outside of London, with a redevelopment value of £18million. “Every game it was like you were starting off 1-0 down. It felt like the end of something when that happened.”.

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