Swindon stormed into the League Two promotion places with a superb performance at Roots Hall last night – thumping fellow contenders Southend by four goals to one with an emphatic display, writes Richard Banyard. I have to admit I was surprised by Di Canio’s team selection – I expected a very similar line-up to the one we saw at Leicester,
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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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Swindon Town are into the FA Cup fourth round thanks to a magnificent 2-1 victory over Wigan Athletic….we’ve not had the opportunity to celebrate that achievement in a while writes Ron Smith. It’s been fifteen long years since our previous run beyond round three. Town are rewarded with a trip the East Midlands; thanks to goals from Alan Connell and Paul Benson, this after Callum McManaman
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An unchanged Swindon Town paid the ultimate price for playing only one half of football at Plainmoor and kissed goodbye to their 15 match unbeaten run in the process writes Daniel Hunt. The nine-day rest between this and the Morecambe win made a mockery of the phrase ‘hectic Christmas period’ and Torquay were worth their half time lead as a
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Three goals, a dugout dust-up and the theatrical villainy of Jason Price: Swindon’s win against Morecambe, with goals from Jake Jervis, Raffa De Vita and Ronan Murray, sounds like excellent entertainment. In reality it was a disjointed and often disappointing game, writes Alex Cooke. Morecambe looked to be a side with a plan: a plan to tap the ball slowly
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Something had to give as Southend’s 17 game unbeaten run went up against Swindon’s very own 12 match unbeaten record in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Southern Area Semi-Final at Roots Hall writes Daniel Hunt. Paolo Di Canio’s squad of battlers were the last side to defeat Southend on September 10th and they repeated the feat on Tuesday night, this time on
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Swindon brushed aside League One opposition for the second successive round in the FA Cup writes Richard Banyard from Swindon-Town-FC.co.uk – comfortably beating Colchester on their own patch today with a performance that had the home fans chanting for their money back. Di Canio made three personnel changes to the side that beat Aldershot last weekend – to be honest, I
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I had started to forget what it was like watching a football match live writes Ron Smith. Four weeks, five games and a stunner from Matt Ritchie have all been missed following the birth of my beautiful daughter. It was great to return to the County Ground for Saturday football and to watch an opponent I’ve never had the opportunity of seeing Swindon face. Both teams
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