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 donned an Oxford shirt, but
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His arrival was met with excitement, but as of yet, it hasn’t worked out for Lukas Magera. Consequently, he has returned to his old club Banik Ostrava on loan. Rosie MacGillivray looks at his long-term future at the County Ground. One goal in eight starts from the one-time Czech international striker paints a bleak picture. Although, that bleak picture fails to mention
Read moreFebruary has seen Swindon Town storm to the top of League Two and to Wembley thanks to an unbeaten month of six wins in a row, including that new club record of ten successive Football League victories. There have been several standout performances in February. Wes Foderingham has pulled off some truly top class saves; Alan McCormack has continued his role as a
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The season ticket and matchday prices for the 2012/13 campaign at the County Ground were unveiled on Saturday. In what is seemingly becoming earlier and earlier every year, the pricing strategy was released with sixteen matches in League Two remaining and at least a strong possibility we’ll be paying to watch League One football come August. Unless you’ve been lucky and
Read moreTown made it a club record nine wins in a row in the Football League this afternoon with a solid 2-0 victory over a spirited Accrington Stanley. Paul Benson scored both goals for the Town in the first half and was award the sponsor’s man of the match award. Vote for your man of the match by selecting your choice below. The
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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 into third with 19%. The
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The ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. So then it has come to pass… A come from behind win on Tuesday night, put us back to the top of the table. It’s been a long wait since the opening day of the season. You might remember, the sun shone, we won three-nil against Crewe, and we basked in the position
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He can play 50 passes in less than 90 minutes and knits defence and attack but lately illness has deprived Town of Simon Ferry in full flow, Alex Cooke looks at what we have been missing. “Less energy, more quality”. That was Paolo Di Canio’s opinion of what Simon Ferry brought from the bench to Swindon versus Shrewsbury on Tuesday.
Read moreFor 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 blue away kit. The various
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The ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. Great win wasn’t it…? At the beginning I feared a drab game, with the wrong result. How wrong I was. Swindon’s performance was excellent. Despite playing a strong side…not gonna get into the Crawley bashing…they played a brand of attacking disciplined football, which was a delight. Luke Rooney must have been delighted to
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