Bristol Rovers' relegation confirmed after Burton draw
The Pirates will be playing League Two football next season
Bristol Rovers' relegation to League Two has been confirmed after Burton Albion drew 1-1 with Wigan tonight.
The outcome was more-or-less inevitable after a 2-0 defeat to Reading at the Memorial Stadium on Saturday left Rovers three points adrift of safety, with a vastly inferior goal difference, going into the final game of the season.
Speaking after Saturday's game, the Pirates' Head Coach Inigo Calderón admitted the team 'haven't been good enough'.
He told the club's official website: "In the end, it’s been a terrible run, and I have to take responsibility for that because, in the end, it’s too many games.
"I never make excuses for being unlucky.
"The good thing about this division is that you play a lot of games, and then the table puts you where you deserve, and at the moment, we deserve to be down there."
The club have had a miserable end to the season, failing to pick up a win since a 3-2 victory over Bolton Wanderers on March 11th.
Seamus Brennan, a Rovers fan for 54 years, told us what he thinks has gone wrong at the Memorial Stadium this season.
He said: "You’ve got to have that fighting spirit and it seems to have left the dressing room so my hope for next season will be somewhere, somehow we need to instill some pride back into the team and some fight.
"I never thought this would be an easy season and I got asked at the start of this season where I think Rovers would finish and I said if we finish anywhere above the bottom four that would be a success so I knew we were in for a hard season but I believed we had enough.
"I believed looking at that table and the other teams in that division, I thought Bristol Rovers had enough fire power to get through the season.
"We’ve gone out with a whimper. We’ve not gone out with a fight.
"We’ve got no backbone into the team and we seem to have given up."
Rovers have a final chance to regain some pride when they travel to Blackpool for Saturday's League One closer.