Richard Selbourne has nominated the new Wembley Stadium and Swindon’s three recent performances into the STFC Hall of Shame… If you’re as old as I am, you will smile smugly to yourself as you remember the Don calmly skipping through the mud and rounding Bob Wilson in the Arsenal goal to win the League Cup for Swindon Town in March
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Is there any need to read Anthony Gingell’s match report for Town’s JPT defeat up the A420..? A rearranged line-up has a lively start at the three sided Kassam Stadium in the A420 derby. In a 4-3-3 formation, Mark Cooper has tried to ensure that Town will attack their opponents to try and turn around the recent poor form and
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Ahead of meeting Oxford United on Tuesday, Steven Fyfe looks at some of his favourite, andd least favourite, Town moments in knock-out football In my decade or so of supporting Swindon Town I have sampled the highs and lows of cup competitions. My mum was only just born when we beat Arsenal in 1969 and I was only 3 years
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Scott Keith reports from a Johnstone’s Paint Trophy 1st Round trip to Newport County and a very successful penalty shootout…
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Well, let’s be honest, it wasn’t entirely either as it was the second round of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy. Writes Scott Keith.
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After this fixture was delayed by three weeks due to a NATO summit taking place in Newport, Jonny Leighfield and Swindon finally got the chance to begin a new JPT dream at Newport County F.C’s Rodney Parade.
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. In a week when you can’t move for the awards being handed out, there weren’t many prizes on offer at the County Ground. A goalless draw against Colchester United was followed by that annoying penalty shoot out in the JPT. The moving of the
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Peterborough United booked their place in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Final at Wembley after defeating Swindon on penalties at the County Ground following a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes. Writes Benjamin Wills. After a 180 minute stalemate, Tommy Rowe slotted in the winning penalty to send the 383 travelling fans home happy and Peterborough to the JPT Final for the
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On a ‘cabbage-patch pitch’ two very similar teams, in terms of league position and form, went head to head in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Area Final 1st Leg at Peterborough’s London Road. We were promised goals and drama and the game most certainly delivered, writes Jonny Leighfield. Mark Cooper made five changes from the team that put in that pathetic
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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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