Buckle's Men Sunk by a Boxing Day Sucker Punch ; Bristol Rovers V Plymouth Argyle | Memorial Stadium, Monday, December 26

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Bristol Rovers 2 Plymouth Argyle 3 THIS may be the season of goodwill, but Bristol Rovers took it to ridiculous extremes - on the field, if not off it.

Holding a 2-0 advantage at the interval thanks to Matt Harrold's double, the Pirates somehow contrived to throw away their lead during a disastrous second half which saw Ashley Hemmings break away to net a stoppage-time winner for the Pilgrims.

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Buckle's Men Sunk by a Boxing Day Sucker Punch ; Bristol Rovers V Plymouth Argyle | Memorial Stadium, Monday, December 26

Those who thought they had seen it all before were dead right.

Just under a year ago, Argyle had also trailed 2-0 at the Memorial Stadium - that time inside 11 minutes thanks to two quickfire goals from Will Hoskins - before staging a second-half fightback to win 3-2. That was one of Darren Patterson's two games in charge of Rovers during one of the many spells of managerial flux last term.

And the vociferous opinion around the Memorial Stadium at the end of the game can have left nobody in any doubt tha...

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