Westlife to perform on the club’s ground

Doncaster Rovers's manager Sean O’Driscoll has allow Westlife to perform on the club’s ground.

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The Irish chart-toppers spent the day playing in a concert bill was before the season started.

Last Sunday, nearly 15,000 fans at the Keepmoat Stadium to see the band down, but O'Driscoll was claimed by stadium managers "vindictive" for the concert season is so close to the host.

Mr O’Driscoll said: “I would’ve loved a home fixture [at the start of the season] because we’ve never had one in the time we’ve been in the Championship. We had to give way to Westlife unfortunately. It’s a source of frustration.”

He added that relations between the football club and stadium management company "had reached an all time low."

“I understand the financial implications of trying to run a stadium,” he said, before adding: “Nobody has a concert five days before a championship season. It smacks of being vindictive.

“We will be the only football league team not to have even played on our pitch before the start of the season – that can’t be right.”

Doncaster Rovers Football League stadiums demanded by the first game of the season was to play.