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2012/13 Season tickets: Are they a price worth paying?

The season ticket and matchday prices for the 2012/13 campaign at the County Ground were unveiled on Saturday. In what is seemingly becoming earlier and earlier every year, the pricing strategy was released with sixteen matches in League Two remaining and at least a strong possibility we’ll be paying to watch League One football come August. Unless you’ve been lucky and

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Swindon 2 Accrington 0: Benson at the double for record breaking Town

A ninth win on the bounce eclipsing a club record which has stood since 1926 and yet Paolo Di Canio called his side’s second half display “rubbish” and “lacking humility” writes Neil Evans…. PDC is clearly a “glass half empty” kind of manager, and maybe that’s no bad thing with games coming thick and fast. For this game he made

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Hall of Shame #7: ‘Kingswood’ Home Kit 2007/08

This week 33% of our readers have voted the Kingswood Construction sponsored Lotto home kit from the 2007/08 season to be the seventh entry inducted into our STFC Hall of Shame. The 2007/08 home shirt beat the yellow & blue away kit from the mid 1980s into second place with 24% and the green potato print away shirt from 1991-93 into third with 19%. The

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Video of the Week: Swindon Town 2 Norwich City 0 – 23rd Feb 1988

The Full Members Cup was a cup competition held from 1985 to 1992 when English clubs were banned from European competition. It was also known under its sponsored names of the Simod Cup from 1987 to 1989 and the Zenith Data Systems Cup from 1989 to 1992 In the 1987/88 Simod Cup competition the Town beat Blackburn Rovers, Derby County and Chelsea

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Match Preview: Swindon vs Accrington Stanley

Form… 1st placed Swindon are currently on a run of one defeat – at Torquay on Boxing Day – in nineteen League Two matches. Town’s current form guide reads eight League wins in a row. At the County Ground, Town are unbeaten since August, making it twelve games without tasting defeat and 32 points from a possible 36. Swindon have won their last six games as hosts with only

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Swindon 2 Shrewsbury 1: Town finally return to the top with gritty win

A series of postponed and re-arranged fixtures delayed the inevitable but Town have finally reached top place by beating promotion rivals Shrewsbury 2-1. As a spectacle, it was far from a classic but the gritty performance will prove to be as vital as our recent emphatic victories over Crawley and Southend writes Rosie MacGillivray. Paolo Di Canio kept an unchanged team from our win at Hereford as he

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Hall of Shame Vote: Which is the worst STFC kit?

For our public vote this month, the decision is yours to decide which Swindon Town kit deserves to be condemned to the Hall of Shame. The nominations are… Kit A – 1981-89 Yellow & Blue away While Oxford United enjoyed their crook fueled football throughout the mid 1980s Town sought to emulate our neighbours with a yellow and blue away kit. The various

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