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 December 1963… Top of the Charts – I Want to Hold Your Hand – The Beatles After a fairly dismal November where we’d not
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2013 is nearly over and it has truly been an eventful and unforgettable year at Swindon Town. Brendan Hobbs jumped at the chance of writing our review of 2013, which has turned into an epic feature of writing; you’ve now made it to part four. There’s a few more to come, this is only… May The playoffs loomed in the shape of a
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Hope your festivities were good whichever winter celebration you keep. For our football team there was the promise of Coventry being sent home pointless, before we were buzzed by the promotion chasing Bees of West London. Saturday’s home game against the Sky Blues started in
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2013 is nearly over and it has truly been an eventful and unforgettable year at Swindon Town. Brendan Hobbs jumped at the chance of writing our review of 2013, which has turned into an epic feature of writing; you’ve now made it to part three. Well done… March A new month and a new managerial appointment. The announcement of Kevin McDonald’s installation as
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2013 is nearly over and it has truly been an eventful and unforgettable year at Swindon Town. Brendan Hobbs jumped at the chance of writing our review of 2013, which has turned into an epic feature of writing; you’ve made it to part two… February Two things went off the rails in February, our promotion push and Andy Williams’ eye for goal. The
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2013 is nearly over and it has been an eventful year at Swindon Town. Brendan Hobbs jumped at the chance of writing our review of 2013, which has turned into an epic feature of writing; this is only part one… I wondered for an age about the style in which I was going to write this review. Perhaps in a
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Episode #22 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download… Host Ron Smith is joined by Andrew Steele-Davis, Iain Watkins and Daniel Hunt. We are getting excited here, it’s nearly Christmas and Swindon Town have started the festive fixtures in perfect form, coming from behind for the second time in 2013 versus Coventry City to register another
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. A very long day, yes a very long day. Last Saturday dragged and included a very dull game at Bramall Lane. You get those types of matches of course in football. Not every match can be full of thrills and spills and those two particular aspects were
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With 2013 rapidly coming to a close Andrew Steele-Davis picks out a selection of his top five players from the first half of the 2013/14 season… With Christmas now just seven days away I thought I would enter into the festive spirit by treating you all to something a little bit different this week. There have been many stunning individual
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. So then here we go just a couple of games from another trip to that Wem-ber-lee. I know we have the little matter of two matches against Peterborough to go through first, but don’t tell me you haven’t thought of getting back to the big arch and
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