FAN-TASTIC
BY DARREN STOBBS
Name:
Cynthia Bond
Area from:
Marshfield
When did you start watching Rovers?
1950
Favourite player(s) since watching Rovers?
Alan Warboys, Rickie Lambert, Jamie Cureton, Ellis Harrison, Nathan Ellington, Lee Brown, Chris Lines
Favourite manager(s)?
Bert Tann
Darrell Clarke
Ian Holloway
Paul Trollope
Most memorable game(s) watching Rovers?
Playing at the newly built Wembley Stadium in 2007, with Sammy Igoe sealing promotion in the last minute to make it 3-1.
Most memorable goal(s)?
Elliot Anderson scoring the seventh goal to confirm promotion against Scunthorpe United.
Favourite away ground?
Madejski Stadium, Reading
Worst away ground(s)?
Leicester City
Bristol City
How do you rate the season so far?
It really has not been not good throughout.
How do you see the season panning out?
I think we will just about stay up.
Any funny/unusual stories at Rovers?
Some years ago, we went to Birmingham City for a cup match. When we arrived, they didn’t have enough space opened for all the Gasheads to get in.
We ended up missing 25 minutes of the first half. We lost and they made us stay in the car park in the absolute pouring rain while the home fans left. The Rovers sang very loudly, ‘We’re Bristol Rovers we want to go home!’
Cynthia also mentions that she attended the famous 4-0 win versus Manchester United (The Busby Babes) on 7th January 1956 in front of an attendance of 35,872 and also many other games of the great Rovers team of the 1950’s.
