Bristol Rovers fans making their way to the Midlands have been denied another Darrell Clarke reunion but it will offer an opportunity to reminisce one of the highlights of last season as the Gas secured a 3-1 win over Port Vale to push themselves right into automatic promotion contention.
Rovers’ League One status isn’t quite mathematically secured yet - albeit with the chances of Cambridge United making up a 12-point difference and 19-goal deficit highly unlikely - but that could be secured by full-time today.
Having given Derby County and Sheffield Wednesday a right good go, frustratingly emerging with only a point, Joey Barton will be conscious that Rovers have developed an encouraging but also annoying (and restricting) habit of performing well against the better teams, but have regularly underwhelmed and dropped points when faced with bottom-half opposition.
