Town walked to a comfortable 2-0 victory against Aldershot this afternoon. Aden Flint was award the match sponsor’s man of the match…who deserves to be your Swindon Town Man of the Match? Vote by selecting your nomination below. The winner will be announced within our match report on Monday morning.
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BBC Radio Wiltshire commentator Vic Morgan continues his weekly blog only here on The Washbag. A lovely day, sun’s shining, blue sky above…hey let’s go to watch AFC Wimbledon against Swindon, by the banks of the Thames. To be fair I’d have gone even if the weather had been lousy, but the pleasant early winter day made the journey even better. I’d
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With Town on a roll, teams are increasingly coming to the County Ground aiming for a draw. But how can you beat an ultra-defensive side? Alex Cooke looks at Di Canio’s options. Part of the fascination, and some of the frustration, of football lies in that one team can always beat the other regardless of the gap, or gulf, in
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Nick Judd talks exclusively to former Swindon Town striker Vincent Pericard about the stresses of life as a professional footballer away from home, his time at the County Ground and how he’s rebuilding his career at Havant & Waterlooville. Could more be done to help foreign players settle in England, and beyond? One former STFC player believes so… With so many
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Form… 7th placed Swindon have been unbeaten in their past 7 League Two games and 3 cup games. Town have won 4 and drawn 2 of their previous 6 League games. At the County Ground, Swindon are unbeaten in 6 games, including a run of 4 victories and 2 draws, since the home defeat by Oxford United. 15th placed Aldershot Town travel to Swindon
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Sunday 20th November was the six month anniversary of Paolo Di Canio’s appointment as manager of Swindon Town. Sam Walton looks back on the Italian’s time at the County Ground. Paolo Di Canio. Surely not… What to us? You mean THE Paolo Di Canio… to Swindon Town. Nahhh, it’s never going to happen! Those were the words of my season ticket holding Dad in May
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After Swindon Town knocked AFC Wimbledon out of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy on penalties at the County Ground 11 days earlier, both teams met again, this time in the League and for the very first time at Kingsmeadow writes STFC007. Having missed the start of an away game in London once due to traffic jams, a trip to London from Wiltshire
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Welcome to another edition of the ‘Npower Football League Two Review’ which took a break last week due to the first round of the FA Cup, writes Andrew Steele-Davis. As usual, it was goals galore as Shrewsbury hit the net an amazing seven times and Crawley put four past a hapless Oxford United. First let’s start with the highest scoring
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Town clawed back to draw 1-1 at AFC Wimbledon this afternoon. Who was your Swindon Town Man of the Match? Vote below by selecting your nomination below. The winner will be announced within our Match Report on Monday morning.
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After a week of detailed statistics as part of our League Two Rankings, Adam Johnson puts them to use with his view on Swindon Town’s away form, a story of two halves. Many promotion hopefuls get to their lofty position based on home form, ‘win your home games and you’ll do well’ is the usual logic to follow. However, picking
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