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Once upon a time I used to get up on a Sunday morning, do all that Sunday breakfast stuff, get in a mountain of papers and settle down on the sofa to watch Rovers' goals on Sky Sports 'Goals on Sunday'.

These days I do the same things but when it comes to 'Goals on Sunday' not only do I have to listen to hours of chat about Premiership goals/sendings off/controversial moments with often worse-for-wear guests but, after all of that, there are no goals.

Yeah, I know the joke: Rovers don't score goals these days (not so much a joke but a fact really) but it's not just our goals. Sometimes the whole of Division Three has vanished into a satellite-dish shaped black hole. Sometimes Division Two is nowhere to be seen either. On occasions even Premiership-Two wannabes Division One are pared down to just one or two goals. And then when concessions are made and Division Three is shown more often than not only one or two games are featured.

For people like me without access to HTV and Jed Pitman (the irony being that a Sky dish rather than a cable connection would allow me to access the regional broadcasts) 'Goals on Sunday' is the best time to see how great (or how terrible) Rovers goals for and against were the previous day. Yes, I know there's 'Nationwide League Extra' on at some ridiculous time on a Monday night/Tuesday morning but I forget and 'Goals on Sunday' is so much easier - or it would be if they showed our goals - and surely Sky have some sort of an obligation to us Nationwide fans seeing as they have the rights to our games? We may not be as trendy as the Premiership, we may not have the glamour or glitz but get this Sky: there are actually a lot of us - 10,268,689 have watched Nationwide League games so far this season compared with 8,626,079 in the Premiership - and we want our goals back.

So, rant over, what do we do? It may not help at all but how about a petition? The link below takes you to one set up online - sign it and help campaign to get the Nationwide League equal rights on Sky TV.

Petition

Oh, and don't forget to tell your Nationwide mates to sign it too.
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