A total of 29 players have already been used by Mark Cooper in League One this season. Ron Smith asks does instability in the squad equate to a poor final league position? As a mixture of injuries and late loan signings have taken their toll as Swindon Town’s 12 games played in League One has seen 29 different players taking to the
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2015/16 fixture release day is 17th June, but will Swindon Town be playing a Boxing Day fixture at the County Ground? The last season Swindon Town were at home on Boxing Day was the 2006/07 season, playing Wycombe Wanderers in a 2-1 victory. Since Boxing Day 2006, Swindon have been allocated eight successive festive fixtures away – with trips to Yeovil Town,
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With the General Election just days away, Jacob Badcock asks what will a change in Government mean for British football and Swindon Town?
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The return of artificial pitches to the Football League has been backed by club chairmen in League One and Two. The BBC has reported that at a meeting on Thursday they gave a strong indication they would vote in favour of permitting 3G (“third generation”) surfaces from next season, before the League takes a formal vote in November. This theoretically could
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After the Football League announced they would revert to seven substitutions for the 2012/13 campaign, Christopher Panks asks how this could affect Di Canio’s approach… Much is spoken of how substitutions have won or lost games for managers. Many have pointed to Harry Redknapp’s tactical decisions which saw his team surrender a 2-0 lead away to bitter rivals Arsenal, eventually conceding five without scoring another,
Read moreAlex Cooke looks at the rules on home-grown players and how they are stopping Di Canio picking, playing and signing the footballers he wants. For once the ‘too many foreigners’ brigade are right. Not because their blinkered, dust-brained views on who can and can’t ‘do it’ on a windy night in Barnet are remotely correct, but because the rules say so.
Read moreWith all the talk of the troubles at Crystal Palace, who are facing the threat of liquidation, what impact could their demise have on the Football League, specifically the shape of League One next season and beyond? Like Town, Palace have twice been in administration. Firstly in 1998 which ended in 2000 and their current administration period which started earlier
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