We continue our special anniversary feature celebrating twenty years since Swindon Town’s 4-3 victory over Leicester City in the Division One Play Off Final with Brendan Hobbs’ search for the Foxes XI twenty years on… The Washbag ‘twenty years’ celebrations have now been running for the a few weeks and so far it’s all been quite Swindon-centric – with not
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We continue our special anniversary feature celebrating twenty years since Swindon Town’s 4-3 victory over Leicester City in the Division One Play Off Final with another video treat courtesy of swindon-town-fc.co.uk… Following the play off final victory at Wembley, the Town witnessed celebrations akin to those in 1969 as the whole community came out onto the motorway bridges, streets and
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Alex Cooke takes a look back at the pattern of play in one of the most fascinating games played at the old Wembley – Swindon Town v Leicester City. One theme written throughout this bout nostalgia has been the comment that ‘it doesn’t feel like 20 years’ since Swindon won at Wembley. Not to me it doesn’t. Watching Swindon 4,
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We continue our special anniversary feature celebrating twenty years since Swindon Town’s 4-3 victory over Leicester City in the Division One Play Off Final with next video courtesy of Swindon-Town-FC.co.uk Here’s all of the Town vs Leicester City match previews from HTV, BBC Points West, GMTV and ITV as the Play Off Final approached back in May 1993 …. Read
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We continue our special anniversary feature celebrating twenty years since Swindon Town’s 4-3 victory over Leicester City in the Division One Play Off Final with another video treat courtesy of swindon-town-fc.co.uk… Any trip to Wembley for a final needs a song and Swindon’s ‘Up Where We Belong’ released in the build up to the game couldn’t have been more aptly
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We continue our celebration of twenty years since the Division One Play Off Final victory over Leicester City and promotion to the Premier League with a chat with Town legend Fraser Digby in a very special episode of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast. Ron Smith is joined by Town goalkeeping legend and one of the Wembley starting XI Fraser Digby
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Paolo Di Canio believes the victory over Stoke City was one of the greatest Swindon Town performances, perhaps it is a contender, Ron Smith gives his view on the top ten. After outclassing Premier League Stoke City in the League Cup 2nd Round tie, Paolo Di Canio said; “Today we have to put this game as one of the best
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He can play 50 passes in less than 90 minutes and knits defence and attack but lately illness has deprived Town of Simon Ferry in full flow, Alex Cooke looks at what we have been missing. “Less energy, more quality”. That was Paolo Di Canio’s opinion of what Simon Ferry brought from the bench to Swindon versus Shrewsbury on Tuesday.
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The ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. It can’t be often you loose and aren’t TOO disappointed about it. A trip to the east Midlands for an FA Cup Fourth Round tie, saw around 4,000 Town fans shout loud and proud at the King Power. I’m generally not one who talks about days out in football. A game is there
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Swindon Town’s first venture into the Fourth Round of the FA Cup since 1995/1996 ended in defeat in chilly Leicestershire writes Daniel Hunt. Swindon’s players can be proud that they more than matched their Championship opponents for 53 minutes and 3,830 Robins can take pride in out-singing just over 16,000 Foxes. Leeds old-boy Jermaine Beckford exacted personal revenge for being
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