Thank you Stan, RIP

[Dutch Uncle]

Like many others, when Rovers played Colchester in our last league fixture in 1998, I seriously wondered if that would be Rovers last ever match.

Little did I know that our match against Bury on 24 September 1983, won 3-1 with goals by Ernie Moss, Steve Lister and Colin Douglas might also have been our last match and the match 3 days later at Belle Vue against eventual runaway Champions York to our second place might never have taken place.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41314948

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

Thank you Stanislav Petrov, RIP. We in the West had no idea for years of how close we all came to annihilation.

Just have to worry about N.Korea now.