My alarm goes off at 6am after finishing work four hours earlier, but it’s worth it as the Town are at Oldham. Writes Vic Morgan. Its one of those games that you mark down on the calender as one of the longest but ridiculously most enjoyable of the season. Somehow it seems to encapture the essence of being a football
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Strange old game wasn’t it..? For a brief spell it looked as though we might be in for one of the matches of the season. It was certainly a performance which deserved three points. Yes, I’m talking about last Saturday’s home fixture against high flying
Read moreForm Guide… 8th placed Swindon are winless in 3 games since a 4-1 victory over Yeovil. In those 3 matches against Brentford, Notts County and Doncaster Rovers, Town have scored once and conceded 3. Swindon’s 6 match League One form table reads won 2, drawn 2 and 2 defeats. Town remain strongest on their travels with 4 wins and 2
Read moreBefore the forthcoming trip to Leicester City, this was the last time Swindon Town reached the FA Cup 4th Round, back on 12th February 1996. Steve McMahon decided to drop Martin Ling for himself for this clash with Division One Oldham Athletic – but when McMahon is forced to retire with a hamstring problem, Ling replaces him from the bench,
Read moreA busy month with six games and we remained unbeaten, taking the run to 13 games in the league without losing. February started with goalscoring revelation Charlie Austin ending speculation and putting pen to paper on a new contract. Now less than 12 months later, with new speculation the Town No.32 is set to leave, Town are again trying to secure the
Read moreWith the start of the 2010/2011 League One campaign almost upon us, there is no better time to look ahead to May and make an attempt at trying to predict the final league positions. Many national news outlets have hardly considered Town as possible promotion candidate so far. BBC 5Live decided to completely overlook Town in favour of the usual suspects in
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