Over 80 days after the Football League announced the remaining matches wouldn't take place, it's FINALLY been confirmed - Doncaster Rovers are the EFL Youth Alliance champions for the 2019/20 campaign.
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| Winning away at Scunthorpe! |
Get the party poppers, bangers, smoke grenades and champagne out...
For a blow-by-blow, game-by-game review of how the title was won - click here - as all the old blogs/reports/articulated nonsense won't be deleted at any point.
It's an achievement which sees the latest crop write their names into the history books because at no point since the academy was relaunched in 2004, have Doncaster Rovers won the Youth Alliance League. Having also checked with club historian, John Coyle, it appears that Rovers never won the Northern Intermediate League which started soon after the Second World War and was the long-term predecessor to the Youth Alliance.
Therefore, it means the 'Class of 2020' (who are all listed below) are the first ever Doncaster Rovers team to ever win a youth title! Nobody can take this achievement away from the lads whatever happens in the future; they've been the best, won the most games, scored the most goals and now, they're officially THE CHAMPIONS!
Ben Blythe
Ben Bottomley
Charlie Bell
Elliott Walker
Ethan Bojang
Jack Watson
Josh Clemitson
Junior Smith
Kian Johnson
Lewis Cunningham
Liam Ravenhill
Lirak Hasani
Luca Nelson
Marius Conradi
Max Jemson
Nathan Dimou
Owan Derrett
Will McGowan
The only previous silverware won by the youth team was eight years ago in 2011/12 when that crop lifted the Youth Alliance Cup.
Hopefully, at some point in the future, the lads will get their well-earned winners' medals and a trophy presentation (of sorts) will happen on the Keepmoat Stadium pitch infront on a matchday in front of a crowd.
But for now, get this blasted out over the speakers...
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