Swindon Town entertained Brentford in game 42 of Sky Bet League One, with the visitors on the road to automatic promotion. Town manager Mark Cooper made four changes from their previous game against Carlisle, a 1-0 loss thanks to former transfer target Gary Madine. Matthew Peach was at the game to report on the action at the County Ground.
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Adam Tanner headed north to Brunton Park, Carlisle to watch Swindon Town’s remaining promotion ambitions head south… Approaching the game, the omens for Swindon were good. We were unbeaten at Carlisle United in our previous four visits, stretching back to 2007, and aiming for a fourth consecutive league win for the first time this season. By contrast, our opponents had
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A dramatic last minute world class reaction save from Swindon Town goalkeeper Wes Foderingham led to the break in which Louis Thompson scored his first goal in front of the Town End, which turned out to be the winner against Sheffield United, reports STFC007. Swindon Town’s starting line-up had two changes from the win over Tranmere four days prior. Raphael
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Swindon Town are now in touching distance of the play offs following a victory over Tranmere Rovers. Scott Keith provides out report… It was going to take a lot for this game to match last year’s visit to Prenton Park, with managerial exits, wildly celebrating players pointing out they could do things without an Italian in charge and the night
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Brendan Hobbs has now finally reported on a Swindon Town victory. Preston North End were the unfortunate ones on the end of a one goal defeat… A fresh spring day welcomed football history heavyweights Preston North End to the County Ground; they breezed into Wiltshire stinking of a team with an enviable history littered with League titles, FA Cups and
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Adam Tanner made the short trip to Ashton Gate for a derby day fixture that has become quite a rare event in recent seasons. Swindon Town went into the game hoping to avoid a third consecutive league defeat for the first time all season, and aiming to extend an eight-game unbeaten run against Bristol City, stretching back to 2002. Mark
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Michael Smith’s second-half goal provided scant consolation for Town fans in a stinging 4-1 home defeat by a Wolves side bustling with strength, collective effort and, Leon Clarke, writes Alex Cooke. Swindon manager Mark Cooper labelled 45 minutes of this display “outstanding” but seemed to choose the wrong half and the wrong team, for despite Swindon’s improvement after the break,
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Swindon Town have chucked away League One points after taking the lead again. Here’s the MK Dons report by STFC007… It was meant to have been a battle for 7th place, but with both Peterborough United and Walsall dropping points in the week, there was a glimmer of hope among some of Town’s over-optimistic faithful that perhaps there was an
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Mike Minihane usually writes about events 50 years ago, this time he’s up to date with Swindon Town’s visit to Crewe Alexandra… Last season I went to Crewe on a Tuesday evening in October to see Swindon Town lose a game that we dominated. Now I was hoping for better, with Crewe just off the relegation places, in poor form and with
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After being undone by two penalties at promotion chasing Leyton Orient on Saturday. Swindon Town came into the Tuesday night clash with Crawley Town hoping to pick up maximum points, but they didn’t… Writes Calvin Hothi. Mark Cooper opted to leave Massimo Luongo and Troy Archibald Henville out of his matchday squad with Nathan Thompson, Jack Barthram, Jay McEveley and
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