Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan writes his weekly blog… I’m writing this week’s blog from the slightly sunnier climes of Portugal. At the grand old age of 60, I’m taking part in an international Walking Football tournament. It’s something I never thought I’d do but it’s fun. Well it was fun until I discovered in one game I’d be
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan reflects on the week’s events at the County Ground… This past week has encapsulated everything about supporting Swindon Town Football Club. The highs of Oldham and the lows of Northampton. There’s no other way to describe it, sometimes you can’t ‘old em other times, a load of cobblers. Let’s start with the positive. After
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… Most of the time as a football fan you can find some cause for optimism. Over the past few days though, I’ve not spoken to many Swindon Town supporters who’re feeling too happy with life right now. Last Saturday’s defeat by Bury was disappointing enough but failed into insignificance
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan reflects on another A420 derby defeat… Quite a week this… Let’s start at the beginning shall we? In the words of the song a very good place to start. Last Saturday’s trip along the A420 was everything I hate about football. As someone who’s watched the game from the mid sixties onward, I’ve seen
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… Here it is then… The fixture that most Town fans have been looking forward too since the end of last season. While we’ve played the team from along the A420 relatively recently, it’s a game that’s been anticipated all summer. More on the derby game with the side from
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… First of all let’s turn to the events of last Saturday… Having worked an early morning shift in Plymouth, it was a case of catching a train from Tiverton Parkway to makes sure of seeing the local derby with Bristol Rovers. The taxi from Swindon station arrived at the
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… Swindon Town’s early season home form looks pretty good right now. A couple of games, a couple of wins and a couple of clean sheets. I know I’m testing providence by writing this just ahead of the local derby on Saturday, but positivity isn’t always a bad thing. A
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… Two away games with differing fortunes this week. After a promising start to the new campaign, it was a slightly different feeling in the last few days. I, like a few others, was quite confident going to Chesterfield on Saturday. Sadly that confidence was, to say the least, unfounded.
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… This time last week I wrote that if you believed much of the comment that had been said about the new season, then Swindon were certs to have a disaster of a campaign. I also wrote that I didn’t feel pessimistic and the early signs are that it’s optimism
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… And so it begins again. With Test Matches and the Summer Olympics underway, here we are talking about the start of a new domestic football season. After the failure of England’s megastars in the European Championship, albeit tempered by the success of the Welsh (especially if you can claim
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