BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan continues his weekly blog only here on The Washbag. What a day… Saturday January the 7th 2012, will go down as one of the great days of Swindon Town’s recent history. Wigan Athletic came to the County Ground as favourites. They’re a Premier League team, and should get past a side from League Two. That was reinforced
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Swindon Town headed to London ahead of their JPT Area Final First Leg game against Barnet full of confidence after the excellent FA Cup win over Wigan at the weekend. But, with the league’s top scorer amongst their ranks, Barnet were not just going to roll over. Andrew Steele-Davis was at Underhill to report. Paolo Di Canio made three changes to
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BBC Wiltshire commentator Vic Morgan continues his weekly blog only here on The Washbag. First and foremost, a Happy New Year. We say goodbye to 2011, and hello to 2012, an Olympic year we hope in many respects. Northampton saw us see out the old year in style… Not the greatest of games, but possibly one of the greatest endings. Trailing
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Welcome to another edition of Andrew Steele-Davis’ Npower Football League Two Review, where as always there was plenty of action for you to sink your teeth into. The top three all dropped vital points as the hectic Christmas schedule begins while Swindon continue their Robin’s revival under Paolo Di Canio, stretching their unbeaten run to 15 games in all competitions. We
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Something had to give as Southend’s 17 game unbeaten run went up against Swindon’s very own 12 match unbeaten record in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Southern Area Semi-Final at Roots Hall writes Daniel Hunt. Paolo Di Canio’s squad of battlers were the last side to defeat Southend on September 10th and they repeated the feat on Tuesday night, this time on
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Nick Judd looks at how the words ‘magic’ and ‘FA Cup’ rarely go hand-in-hand when it comes to Swindon Town. Giantkilling is something only other teams seem to do and instead of claiming scalps we get headaches. We’re more into ‘dark arts’ than abracedabra. In 2008, defeat to Histon ultimately proved the end of Maurice Malpas’ apoplectic reign. The only
Read moreSwindon secured their fourth victory in five games thanks to a comfortable 4-0 win over The Bees. However, despite Town’s dominance, it always takes two to tango, with Barnet heavily responsible for their own downfall. Reports Ron Smith. After being brought back down to earth a week ago at Burton, Paolo Di Canio responded with one enforced change in Comazzi returning to the side and Phil
Read moreSaturday afternoon we welcome Barnet to the County Ground for the tenth game in League Two this season. Remember, Adult tickets purchased before 5pm on Friday will be at £20 in the Arkells and Don Rogers Stands and £14 in the Town End. Better than nothing, but still not good enough IMO. Form… After being brought back down to earth
Read moreBBC Radio Swindon commentator Vic Morgan continues his new weekly blog only here on The Washbag. GOOD CHIPPY ON THE WAY FROM… Burton Albion. Not too much else to recommend that afternoon, I’m afraid. It was a new ground for Swindon fans, another one to tick off the list. Around a thousand made the journey to the Pirrelli Stadium, in
Read moreAs you would’ve seen on potential Swindon Town signing Adam Birchall’s factfile yesterday he represented Barnet for 3 seasons from 2006 to 2009, scoring 26 goals in 116 appearances. So whilst I’m still hunting for a Dover Athletic view, Barnet supporter Lucy Waldon of Look Black ‘n’ Amber gives an insight on Adam’s time at Underhill and why he drifted out
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