Richard Selbourne has nominated the new Wembley Stadium and Swindon’s three recent performances into the STFC Hall of Shame… If you’re as old as I am, you will smile smugly to yourself as you remember the Don calmly skipping through the mud and rounding Bob Wilson in the Arsenal goal to win the League Cup for Swindon Town in March
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Replica kit collector Dan Castle of swindontownshirts.com inducts our 35th entry into the Swindon Town Hall of Shame… In 2012 The Washbag shortlisted seven kits to discover which should be consigned to the STFC Hall Of Shame. There were many candidates, including the ever popular cult ‘potato print’ shirt. The winner and 7th entrant to the Hall of Shame was the 2007-08
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Isn’t it about time that we banished former Swindon Town striker Leon Clarke into the STFC Hall of Shame..?
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Alex Cooke looks back at the Town career of a ‘Neanderthal wicker dildo’ who was also a Paul Hart favourite. David Prutton is entry #33 into the Swindon Town Hall of Shame…
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The 1901/02 season for Swindon Town was one of our worst ever campaigns and a new entrant to our Hall of Shame…
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Entry #31 into the Swindon Town Hall of Shame is a thumping defeat at Bolton Wanderers, which was also the scene of Stuart Mac’s tears live on air…
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Our 30th entry into the Swindon Town Hall of Shame is a loanee from Southampton – Richard Dryden, who Ciaran Boast inducts into our STFC pantheon of crap… Richard Dryden was born in Stroud on 14th June 1969 so he’s a fairly local lad. Before signing for Swindon Town on loan, the signs were there of a career which was spiralling down – and fast.
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Should David Peach enter the Hall of Shame? You can decide. But this isn’t just a yes or no decision on whether yet another of Town’s duffers enters this famed collection of crap, your vote will decide how deep the diarrhea actually is. Alex Cooke provides the options.
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Our 28th entry into the Swindon Town Hall of Shame is Brunel FM – the radio station where the listener couldn’t hear the commentary, writes Ron Smith. One decision in the summer of 2007 summed up the consistent failures life under the Wills’ family advisor Mike Diamandis. The club severed the club’s 18 year old ties with BBC Wiltshire in
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Alex Cooke looks back at a massive punt and a manager who didn’t changed his kick-off plan, despite years of repeated failure. You must remember it. It happened at every Swindon kick-off under Andy King, game after game after game: Sammy Igoe (or similar) tapped the ball slightly forward. Then, (often) Matt Hewlett swung the ball over the heads of
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