A big-name ex-player of Italian descent in his first managerial role, leading Swindon to the fourth tier championship despite a bad start to the season, with a regime based on teamwork and discipline, breaking club records and knocking top flight opposition out of the cup on the way…. hmmm…. does this sound a bit familiar? Writes Richard Banyard. Though there
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Over a year after Paul Hart lead Swindon to relegation, Alex Cooke has the privilege of pushing Town’s second all-time-least-successful manager in to the depths of the STFC Hall of Shame. Paul Hart should have bounced. After all they call it a ‘dead cat bounce’ as supposedly even the most decomposed felines will get some elevation if dropped from a
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Neil Evans is to give his perspective on everyone who put on a Red shirt in our amazing record-breaking season. First up is part one including Mattia Lanzano through to Alan Connell, squad nos.1 to 17. Ratings are made out of 10. Anyone who was in the squad but didn’t play automatically gets a default 5 out of 10…e.g Nathan Thompson Part
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Australian based Swindon Town supporter Steve Hall recalls events from our previous promotion from the fourth tier in 2006/07, long haul flights and an affinity for the Monkey Hangers. My vivid recollection of the final game of the 2006-7 season is a testament to the unreliability of memory – or perhaps to early (or not so early) onset Alzheimer’s. My
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The final ramblings of the season from BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. So that’s it for another season then. There we were back in August welcoming a new campaign with a 3-0 home win over Crewe and now in May it’s passed in a blur. Its had more than the fair share of ups and downs. After that initial up against
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Carl McQueen of the We Are Going Up! Football League Podcast casts his eye over the man behind our success this season…Paolo Di Canio. On May 23rd 2011, the new Swindon Town manager Paolo Di Canio said he “was close to signing Lionel Messi”. In hindsight, he’s had the kind of season you can’t help but be impressed by –
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The STFC Hall of Shame is back following a short break. For our twelfth entry, Nick Judd inducts former Swindon Town manager Colin Todd for his woeful transfer strategy back in the summer of 2000. August 12, 2000 and Swindon are playing West Ham United in the last pre-season friendly before the start of the 2000/01 season. The Robins are
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As we continue to look back over previous Swindon Town promotions, Mike Minihane recalls the Division Three promotion that was added to the League Cup in 1968/69. I doubt that any fan who can remember it would say anything other than this was our finest season. It’s best remembered for our lifting the League Cup at Wembley on March 15th
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Episode 2 of TheWashbag.com Podcast features host Christopher Panks (Sky Sports Fanzone STFC blogger) and guests Ron Smith (editor of TheWashbag), Vic Morgan (BBC Devon) and Matt Kilford (STFC fan and musician – MatthewKilford.co.uk). They discuss the final two games of the season against Port Vale and Bradford, who deserves to win in TheWashbag Podcast awards and a brief look forward to what the summer at
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A spectacular season was capped by a match somewhat less so, as Valley Parade played host to the only goalless game in the Football League this weekend. With nothing more than pride to play for, the game itself had somewhat of a pre-season feeling to it, writes Rosie MacGillivray. Both players and supporters shown that sportsmanship still existed. The Bradford
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