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Michael Slocombe

The sad news has reached us of the death of former Rovers player Michael ‘Micky’ Slocombe, at the age of 81, on 30th August 2022. A Bristolian, born in St...

First caps presented

After a long time in the planning we were absolutely delighted to be able to present the first caps of our Caps Initiative at the Shrewsbury game on Saturday. Watney...

Caps Initiative

Welcome to the section of our website that is solely about our caps initiative, something we are very proud of and a project we hope will go from strength to...

Winning 50/50 numbers

The winning 50/50 numbers at Saturday's Shrewsbury Town game were 065927, 045293 & 073168. As always a huge thank you to everyone that bought a ticket and to our loyal...

Presenting the trophy

Presenting the Trophy Dr Roger Bannister By Keith Brookman Just in case you didn’t know, 5th August 1972 was the day on which Bristol Rovers recorded their first post war...

Watney Cup winners 50 years ago

Fifty years ago this month, on 5th August 1972, Bristol Rovers won a competition known as the Watney Cup by beating Sheffield United in the final, played at Eastville, in...