Season To Remember

Product Description

In the 1973/74 season Bristol Rovers clinched promotion to the old Second Division in one of the clubs most memorable campaigns. Thanks largely to the prolific goalscoring partnership between Bruce Bannister & Alan Warboys dubbed Smash & Grab by the national press & a superb team spirit manager Don Megsons side went unbeaten for thirty-two games setting a new club record. This is the story of that remarkable season featuring many previously unpublished photographs statistics & reports of every match. It also

Includes:: biographies of the full squad & interviews with all the players involved. Also included is a chapter on Rovers only major cup success the Watney Cup victory in 1972 plus their two successful League Cup runs which led them to quarter-final glory in the early 1970s. Anyone who witnessed this exciting period in the clubs history will enjoy reliving some of the magic through the memories & images collected here while all those fans who are too young to remember it for themselves can also gain some idea of just what made this season so special.