They’re back! Find the Swindon Town-connected facts, dates and names to depress/impress you and your friends. There are five more tough puzzles to test you. By Alex Cooke Ahead of the FA Cup tie with Eastleigh, we’ve again put together a series of quiz walls, much like those in BBC Four virgin-off Only Connect. If you know how to play
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan writes his weekly blog… Just when you thought the season had hit a new low last weekend with the defeat by Walsall, there’s the prospect of a long journey to league leaders to come on Saturday. Total disappointment is the way I can describe my feelings after the loss to the Saddlers. The win
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan writes his weekly blog… If your name is Lawrence Vigouroux and you’re a professional goalkeeper for Swindon Town, you’ve had a pretty good week. Two clean sheets, two great performances and two penalty saves out of the top drawer. First up was last Saturday at AFC Wimbledon. In this column last week I said
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan writes his weekly blog… Another defeat for Swindon Town and a feeling of where do we go from here? The loss against Bolton last Saturday seems to have been the season’s low point. An own goal giving the Trotters the points and the dismissal of Rafa Rossi-Branco means a dearth of available central defenders
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Richard Selbourne considers the calls from some sections of the County Ground for Lee Power to sell up his interest in STFC… I’d like to think I’m a reasonably intelligent bloke (although my wife would suggest my longstanding Swindon Town season ticket proves otherwise), but I have little experience of business and none of running a football club. With our
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Richard Maddicks reports on a fourth successive League One defeat as hosts… Famously, Ossie Ardiles once said in his pre-match interview shortly after taking up the poison chalice at SN1: “Uuuuuuuh, Swindon Bolton, uhhhhhhhh, local derby”. In his defence, most games in England probably felt local to the much travelled South American. Well Ossie, the league 1 class of 2016
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Brendan Hobbs on how Lee Power couldn’t care less about the health of our club, Swindon Town Football Club… Can you resign as a fan of a football club? You can from a job of course, if you’re frustrated, stymied or bored of your boss and his clueless antics – surely you’d look for something better? Something that appeals, something that
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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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Steven Fyfe gives his view of how Swindon’s opening ten games have gone, and what needs to change The age-old saying in football is ‘give us ten games’. It is the unwritten moment when you can start to realistically picture how your season is going to go. Now, as Town are ten league games in, I decided to review the
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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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