This article originally appeared in the Rochdale matchday programme on 8 February 2014.

More than 1,800 Dons fans will be making the relatively short trip to Fratton Park next Saturday. Our opponents’ plunge down the divisions since 2010 may sound like the storyline for a disaster movie, but four years on and the picture is beginning to look very different, writes David Reeves.

In the programme for our game against Portsmouth last November (no prizes for recalling the result!) the..