Tuesday 7:45pm Welcome back to to Terry and then a sound beating!! 18 quid a ticket for adults Think they priced that too high personally Should be a tenner anyway City 3-1 Oscar and delap to net No idea if it even goes to pens
Doncaster is technically still part of Scotland. In the 12th Century the town was signed over to King David I in the Treaty of Durham. But it was never officially given back. Though Doncaster town did not exist before the Romans arrived, the word its name is based on probably did. When the Roman authorities built a fort on the banks of the River Don they called it Danum, meaning the place or river called Danu. This was the name that the local Iron Age inhabitants gave to the river. Danu may have been named after an Iron Age goddess, as there is a Danu in Irish myths and a Don in Welsh legends. The only polar bears living in the UK are in Doncaster. It is (was) home to the world's oldest goldfish. “Arkwrights” shop from Open All Hours is in Doncaster. Doncaster is the birthplace of the toilet. Doncaster Racecourse played host to Britain‟‘s first ever Aviation Meeting in 1909. The Flying Scotsman was built in Doncaster. David Bowie’s father – Haywood Stenton “John” Jones, was born at 41 St. Sepulchre Gate in 1912. The man who built Doncaster Minster's Clock, Edmund Beckett Dennison, also built the clock Big Ben in London. John Francis Bentley, an architect whose most famous work is Westminster Cathedral, was born in Doncaster. In 1899 at The Good Woman on St Sepulchre Gate, a resolution was passed for a new political party - the national Labour Party. At that time, they had more reds than all the hotels in Portugal. Doncaster's leisure centre is home to the first and only split-level ice rink in the UK. Shirley and Eddie Clarkson designed the stuffed toy Paddington Bear in a factory known as the Bear Garden in Doncaster. The first prototype bears were given to their children, Grand Tour presenter and former Top Gear presenter, Jeremy Clarkson and his sister Joanna for Christmas in 1972. The Doncaster Cup was run for the first time in 1766, making it the oldest regulated horse race in the world. Sir Walter Scott used Conisbrough Castle in his novel Ivanhoe.
Looking forward to this one. I like midweek games, me, it sort of breaks the week up in a mid week break sort of way, until Saturday when we are home again, which is nice. Games between us and our South Yorkshire cousins are seldom memorable, of course this one, hopefully might be. My best memory of a Donny game was in the FA Cup, (could be wrong there) at Boothferry Park when wee Billy Bremner was their manager. Always felt a bit sorry for the little Scot because he reached the peak of his carear when he joined us and fully expected to move up to manager when the opportunity arose, it did, but it passed him by and he had to make do with Donny Rovers instead, a real shame and obviously a big disappointment for the boy, that and spending most of his carear at thingy united. But his brave troops were up for it that day in their cup final against the Tigers at a not quite packed Boothferry Park. I bet not many of those rubbishing City for losing at Carrot Crunching Road yesterday were there to witness it? Sadly, for them, Bremners boys took a real pasting that afternoon, playing City off the pitch for 89 mins, until, I believe it was the elusive Nick Deacy who broke away and broke their little South Yorkshire hearts with a late winner in our only attack. Sheer joy for the three or four hundred of us trying to look as though we were packed together in the Kempton. Be nice to see Grant McCanns cheery face again too on Tuesday. Hurry folks I'm hearing tickets are in great demand and as many as 800 have already been snapped up. Don't you just love the cup? UTT.
Why didn’t he get the job at city? I remember that’s why people thought he came here to be player manager
Not good enough perhaps? Seriously, he expected it but him only turning up at City on matchdays and still training with his leeds united chums at hellonend road might not have helped his cause. I think we had a few of Revies old boys at City in those days, Bobby Collins for one and another bloke who was the author of Revies famous dossiers on other teams, referees and those who like a bung. Collins did get to wear the managers coat and was sacked before he found our where to hang it up. Bremner would probably have lasted as long.
I heard it was due to his high whisky consumption (then driving to Leeds), which wasn't known before he came.
We've played Doncaster three times in the League Cup and lost all three. None were home ties for the Tigers though.
Just know this is going to be a horrifically piss poor performance to compound yesterdays defeat. Always happens when a lower division club comes for a midweek league cup tie. We will probably go out on pens after an absolutely dire 0-0 stink fest.
It will be interesting to see what sort of team is put out. Probably see fringe players getting a game. A stab at the team. Timothee Christie Smith Macca Viagre/Fleming Simon's Lokilo Slater Vaughan Oscar Connolly
Rosie should play our u21s for this and exit this Mickey Mouse cup in the first round so we can focus on league points.
