It should have been a predictable tale of an STFC win but as Alex Cooke found, this story had a twist. With last week’s removal of chairman Jeremy Wray, Paolo Di Canio’s latest threat to quit over his lack of players and the return of Leon Clarke and David Prutton to the County Ground, this game already seemed to have
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Wes Foderingham has followed Paul Caddis in falling foul of Paolo Di Canio, but even he won’t be the last, writes Alex Cooke. First it was Paul Caddis, now it seems to be Wes Foderingham; the list of players who have offended Swindon’s Paolo Di Canio swells week by week. Leon Clarke was the first (and the fastest) to fall
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Neil Evans is to give his perspective on everyone who put on a Red shirt in our amazing record-breaking season, part two.. 18. Mark Scott. The young goalkeeper didn’t really feature and has been released by PDC..we wish him well 5 out of 10 19. Luke Rooney: Is it just me, or were we all expecting a lot more from Luke? if
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You’ve read many great factual reviews of the season, Alex Cooke takes a more personal view of 2011-12 and how it has changed how he watches Swindon. 2011-12 was a season played in the full glare of a nation’s attention. The media with their magpie-attention span were periodically fascinated because of who stalked the touchline, rival football fans saw Swindon
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Swindon Town are top of League Two and normally that comes down to a solid frontline banging in the goals, such as our partnerships of Mooney and Parkin, Allison and Finney etc. This season, the frontline has chopped and changed but still to some success, Adam Johnson looks at the situation. Paul Benson. 32, 6ft tall, 11st, looking for a
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Scot Munroe gives his summary of the transfer window so far and what might be in store for Town fans. We are just over three weeks into the new year and the January transfer window, there has been no surprise that we’ve witnessed new signings and deadwood departing. On the way out of the County Ground we have seen Michael Timlin leave for
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No.2 – Leon Clarke & Mike Grella A list of the top eleven moments of 2011 wouldn’t be right without the petulant Leon Clarke featuring somewhere. Even though the incident brought masses of negative publicity to the County Ground it’ll live long in our memories, so this justifies its placing at No.2 in our countdown of 2011. Clarke played up
Read moreBBC Radio Swindon commentator Vic Morgan continues his weekly blog only here on The Washbag. And so we’ve passed the 10 game mark of the League Two campaign. Just how did that happen..? It only seems a minute or so ago, that we were at Prenton Park looking forward to the summer. Well that summer returned this week in terms of the weather, but
Read moreA big welcome to BBC Radio Swindon commentator Vic Morgan who starts his new weekly blog only here on The Washbag. WHAT A START… To the season. It all looked cut and dried didn’t it? We’d beaten Crewe 3-0 after a dodgy first half, and so the League Two title was a formality wasn’t it..? Especially with our new manager at
Read moreSaturday: Played about 70 mins then got a rest. Good bench at Shrews, plenty of support for my back. Wide too. Much better than at Wednesday. Or Wolves, Preston and Southend. Or Kettering, QPR or Argyle. But I don’t know why the gaffer is blaming me for the defeat. He took me off when it was 1-1. Don’t care, he’s not my real dad
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