This would trump the feat of the Rovers team of 1927 that went 30 matches without tasting a loss, a run that extended across three different seasons. Quirkily enough, Bradley’s Rovers group have also built up their sequence over three league campaigns because of the abridged 18-game 2020 season. Players have been encouraged to seize the opportunity to write their names into the history books. In seven of their eight league games this season, Rovers have scored goals of significance in the last 15 minutes and that run includes consecutive injury-time winners against Longford and Drogheda. “We should be proud, we shouldn’t hide from the fact that it’s there and we have a chance to create history.

Source: Irish Independent May 03, 2021 01:30 UTC