Millions across the country enjoyed a match either on the terraces, in the pub, or at home at the beginning of the new footy season.
The contrast between the game now, and 20 years ago - when hooliganism blighted the nation's favourite sport - could not have been starker.
It is a fact not lost on a former member of one of Bristol Rover's most notorious gangs - now a unlikely member of the club's current staff.
Amanda Walker went to meet him.
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