Hans Tandsether of Norwegian STFC blog HeiaSwindon continues his monthly view on events at the County Ground. Dear friends and fans of Swindon Town Football Club. The Norwegian review for January was not to be as I was way too busy moving to a bigger house with my family and I did not have internet connection for some days in
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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
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Swindon made it ten League Two wins in a row, 30 points out of 30 and stretched the lead at the top to four points with a 2-0 win over Burton Albion. Adam Johnson looks back on the continuation of success from last night… In recent weeks I’ve been going to Swindon games expecting three points and have just been going through
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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Form… First placed Swindon are currently on a run of one defeat – at Torquay on Boxing Day – in twenty League Two matches. Town’s current form guide reads nine League wins in a row, which is a new club record. At the County Ground, Town are unbeaten since August, making it 13 games without tasting defeat and 35 points from a possible 39. Swindon have
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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
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A ninth win on the bounce eclipsing a club record which has stood since 1926 and yet Paolo Di Canio called his side’s second half display “rubbish” and “lacking humility” writes Neil Evans…. PDC is clearly a “glass half empty” kind of manager, and maybe that’s no bad thing with games coming thick and fast. For this game he made
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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