Episode #21 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download… Host Ron Smith was joined by Sam Morshead – chief sports writer Swindon Advertiser – for a quick chat on Friday afternoon to reflect on the week’s events at the County Ground, following Lee Power’s takeover at Swindon Town. Unfortunately the sound quality isn’t that great so hopefully
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Let’s get the important stuff out of the way first. The three-one win over Carlisle United was welcome and deserved. It wasn’t the most thrilling game we’ve ever seen, in fact at times it would have been more enjoyable painting a seat and watching
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After a quick resolution to the brouhaha in the boardroom, Jed McCrory “reluctantly agreed to step down as chairman and board member of Swindon Town FC with immediate effect”. Ron Smith recalls his experiences of meeting the former Town chairman… Twitter is a wonderful tool. I wouldn’t have been able to have developed this site without the networking it brought, however I never imagined
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Despite club director Sangita Shah’s post-match comments on the McCrory vs Power bout of the boardroom, confusion still reigns over the ownership situation at Swindon Town and how this arose… ‘Black Friday’ is what Americans label the final Friday in November and for different reasons it was embarrassing Friday for Swindon Town. Within two hours of a club statement being issued ‘confirming’ that
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Having not won for the last two games Swindon Town looked to get back to winning ways against Carlisle United in game week 19 of the Sky Bet League One. Swindon, who came in to the game off the back of a hard-earned point against now managerless Crawley, were keen to get the three points in order to maintain a
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Form Guide… 8th placed Swindon Town played out a first goalless draw for 34 games against Crawley Town in midweek. Town remain are one point adrift of 6th placed Bradford City. In the League One form guide, Swindon are 17th with two wins, one draw and three defeats in six – still very mid-table form… At the County Ground, Swindon
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It’s never a slow news day at the County Ground as the ownership of Swindon Town has been acquired by Lee Power… SWINDON Town Football Club are pleased to announced that the Football League have formally sanctioned the change of ownership of STFC to Swinton Reds 20 owned by Director of Football, Mr Lee Power. The change of ownership signals no fundamental
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Tough to take wasn’t it? Fair result though… Leyton Orient were well organised, had a game plan and left Wiltshire with the three points. Swindon had a more than decent shout for a penalty waved away. A decision which led to scenes nobody wants to see on a football
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Throughout this season Mike Minihane will be taking a look back at Swindon Town’s first season in the ‘big time’, following the promotion to Division Two for the 1963/64 season. Mike continues with a review of November 1963… Top of the Charts – You’ll Never Walk Alone by Gerry and the Pacemakers (for the entire month) November 1963 promised to be a tough
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A resilient and dogged Swindon Town side fought out a hard earned 0-0 draw against Crawley despite being reduced to ten men late on after Nathan Byrne’s dismissal, reports Andrew Steele-Davis. Both teams headed into the Tuesday night encounter with a patchy formbook. The hosts were on a six game streak without a win with four of those games ending
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