Which player will win the coveted Fraser Digby’s Washbag Tortoiseshell Comb Award? It’s time to vote for your Swindon Town Player of the Season. You’ve got just one choice so pick a good one and don’t go for the obvious as that’s boring.
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Two wins out of two and the play offs remain an outside possibility with just two Saturdays of the season to go. The first victory came bizarrely at Northampton against Coventry City. I found it difficult though out Friday’s game to remember we were
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The British Pathé have recently uploaded over 85,000 films onto YouTube. In amongst reports of days that shook the world and newsreels of the weird and wonderful of the early to mid-twentieth century, there are plenty of football videos and some covering Swindon and the town’s football club.
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A further development in the ownership saga at Swindon was revealed on Good Friday with news that “three observer directors have been appointed to the club” by the Courts and Seebeck87 Ltd later stating they are the owners of the club, not Lee Power’s ‘Swinton Reds20’. Matt Arnold tries to make some sense of how the situation has arisen…
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It was a great game wasn’t it? Maybe not one for the purists but last Saturday’s match against Brentford was a full blooded affair. Full of incident, I think it was one of my favourite games of the season. It also saw the return
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Nathan and his younger brother Louis are two of Swindon Town’s brightest young prospects. With the younger Thompson emerging as a first team regular this season, Ron Smith takes a brief look back at their careers at the County Ground…
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. So here’s the thing. I got home from work at two in the morning, up two and a half hours later to start the seemingly never ending day that is Carlisle United away. Leaving Devon in the dark, there were internal questions regarding sanity and what the whatsits were we doing.
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Should David Peach enter the Hall of Shame? You can decide. But this isn’t just a yes or no decision on whether yet another of Town’s duffers enters this famed collection of crap, your vote will decide how deep the diarrhea actually is. Alex Cooke provides the options.
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Throughout this season Mike Minihane has been 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 March 1964…
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Hands up those who thought our season was over? Yep that’s right most of us. Well last Saturday’s win over Sheffield United proved that it’s not quite. Two things were settled. The first that any lingering fears of a dramatic slide down the table
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