Milan Misun has quietly slipped away from Swindon Town… its almost as if he was never here… After ‘joining’ for an undisclosed (reported to be a six figure) fee on 28th January 2011 - in one of Danny Wilson’s final and desperate last throws of the dice in the transfer market; Czech Republic defender Milan Misun suffered a reoccurrence of a serious [...]
Reblogged from The Washbag: This article was originally published on 30th August 2011 when Jeorge Bird from Arsenal Youth provided the lowdown on our then hopeful loan signing Daniel Boateng. Today (20th Jan 2012) Boateng has joined on loan until the end of the season, here is another look at Jeorge’s comments. When Daniel Boateng was emerging through the [...]
After twelve months of post Wembley despair, culminating in our drop to the bottom tier of the Football League, who would’ve expected Swindon Town to be able to unveil football legend, but managerial novice, Paolo Di Canio on 20th May 2011 as the man to guide us to promotion… Not since Ossie Ardilles and then Glenn Hoddle were handed [...]
No.2 – Leon Clarke & Mike Grella A list of the top eleven moments of 2011 wouldn’t be right without the petulant Leon Clarke featuring somewhere. Even though the incident brought masses of negative publicity to the County Ground it’ll live long in our memories, so this justifies its placing at No.2 in our countdown [...]
The goalkeeping position at Swindon Town has been up for grabs for a very long time. In recent years we’ve seen ‘keepers come and go, a former England u21 international David Lucas fail to stake his claim to the no.1 jersey and the supporters unconvinced by an array of mistakes, with Phil Smith often singled out [...]
No.4 – Swindon 4 Huddersfield 1 This FA Cup 1st Round tie pitted Swindon against League One Huddersfield Town, who at that point had only been defeated twice this season and undefeated in 42 games in League One. Swindon ran out 4-1 victors and in response Paolo Di Canio summed it all up perfectly by [...]
No.5 – Paul Hart: The worst Swindon manager of all time? In June I set out on the task of attempting to rank all Swindon Town managers since we joined the Football League in 1920 by their actual results. The reason was to analyise whether Paul Hart’s record of 1 win, 4 draws and 6 defeats from [...]
No.6 – Matt Ritchie’s strike against Gillingham With my daughter’s impending birth preventing use of my season ticket for the evening I missed Matt Ritchie’s stunning strike against Gillingham. Whether this is something I’ll hold against her I doubt, but I always seem to miss out on the STFC ‘wonder strikes’ over the years for [...]
No.7 – Leyton Orient and the end for Danny Wilson A 3-0 defeat at Leyton Orient in early February with sixteen left to play, 31 points in the bag and six off the bottom isn’t usually a sign relegation is inevitable, but it always was for me. The match was Swindon’s eighth game without a win, [...]
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James Constable: Crossing the divide?
After going public with his desire to bring James Constable to Swindon prior to the derby with Oxford United back in August, Paolo Di Canio has again made his intentions clear by launching a new raid on the Kassam to sign the Malmesbury-man this January. Di Canio’s two bids – understood to be £175,000 and then nearer £250,000 - have been swiftly turned [...]