Hall of Shame #11: Wearing the white kit at Wembley in 2010

Austin gets in the mood for Wembley

This Sunday sees Swindon return to Wembley for the second time in under two years. The build up to this match provides an obvious opportunity to induct into the Hall of Shame the decision back in May 2010 to forego wearing the famous red and white… A week before the Play-Off Final with Millwall, Swindon [...]

Hall of Shame #10: Tony Thorpe and Jamie Cureton

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Sports Journalist and Swindon Town supporter Tom Otrebski provides our next entry into the Hall of Shame. As it’s the tenth inductee we thought we’ll give him two for the price of one and he chose the strike partnership of Tony Thorpe and Jamie Cureton that just failed to live up to high expectations. At the start of the 2005/06 [...]

Hall of Shame #9: Wiltshire Newspapers axe the ‘Football Pink’

Newspaper Print Run

For our next entry into the Hall of Shame we step outside of the club, as Mike Minihane inducts Wiltshire Newspapers for their decision to axe publication of the much loved ‘Football Pink’. In the early 1970s Wilshire Newspapers, the publishers of the then ‘Evening Advertiser’ (aka the ‘Adver’) made the incomprehensible decision to cease [...]

Hall of Shame #8: Joey Beauchamp

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Seeing that we’re travelling down the A420 on Saturday, now seems an appropriate time to induct the most hated player to wear the famous red of Swindon Town, Joey Beauchamp. Richard Banyard provides the biography of the Oxford United legend. It’s over seventeen years since he left the Town, and more than ten since he last [...]

Hall of Shame #7: ‘Kingswood’ Home Kit 2007/08

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This week 33% of our readers have voted the Kingswood Construction sponsored Lotto home kit from the 2007/08 season to be the seventh entry inducted into our STFC Hall of Shame. The 2007/08 home shirt beat the yellow & blue away kit from the mid 1980s into second place with 24% and the green potato print away shirt from 1991-93 [...]

Hall of Shame Vote: Which is the worst STFC kit?

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For our public vote this month, the decision is yours to decide which Swindon Town kit deserves to be condemned to the Hall of Shame. The nominations are… Kit A – 1981-89 Yellow & Blue away While Oxford United enjoyed their crook fueled football throughout the mid 1980s Town sought to emulate our neighbours with a yellow and [...]

Hall of Shame #6: Steve McMahon

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Andrew Hawes gets his chance to induct his choice into the Hall of Shame…a popular selection by all accounts… There aren’t that many managers in Swindon’s history who have achieved promotion. Bert Head, Danny Williams, Lou Macari, Ossie Ardiles (albeit briefly), Glenn Hoddle, Steve McMahon and Paul Sturrock complete the list. Yet when thinking about the [...]

Hall of Shame #5: Swindon 0 Ipswich 6 – 3rd April 1999

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A solid defence is something than Swindon have seldom had. Over the past decade, you can count a dozen Adrian Viveashs for every Gordon Greer. Mis-timed and clumsy tackles, back-passes to the keepers, poor distribution – the County Ground has seen it all, writes Rosie MacGillivray; who inducts her choice for the worst Swindon match of [...]

Hall of Shame #4: The decision to sack Lou Macari in 1985

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For our next entry into the Swindon Town Hall of Shame, Vic Morgan recalls one of the most shameful decisions taken by a Swindon Town board. Vic looks back to April 1985 when Lou Macari was wrongly dismissed to the anger of the Town faithful, then reinstated days later. It was Good Friday…a day of rest [...]

Hall of Shame #3: Histon 1 Swindon 0

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A massive 74% voted Swindon’s 0-1 defeat at Histon in the FA Cup – on the 8th November 2008 – as the first match under the management of Maurice Malpas to be inducted into our STFC Hall of Shame. With a very poor start to the League One campaign that originally aimed towards the play-offs, supporters confidence [...]