It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest weekly review by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It’s been a bit of a disappointing week hasn’t it. While last weekends defeat at Scunthorpe United wasn’t as bad as it could have been, results over the past few days mean Swindon have slipped off the League One pace. The game at Glanford
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Adam Tanner headed north in the forlorn hope of a romantic date with his first love…
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Swindon Town kicked-off their 2014/2015 campaign with a fully deserved home win. There was some great football on display at times at the County Ground, but a more clinical opposition attack would’ve capitalised on our current defensive frailties reports STFC007. After several key players have left the County Ground since May, it was only Jay McEveley and Jack Stephens who
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Throughout this season Mike Minihane will be taking a look back at Swindon Town’s first season in the ‘big time’, following the promotion to Division Two for the 1963/64 season. Mike continues with a review of December 1963… Top of the Charts – I Want to Hold Your Hand – The Beatles After a fairly dismal November where we’d not
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Throughout this season Mike Minihane will be taking a look back at Swindon Town’s first season in the ‘big time’, following the promotion to Division Two for the 1963/64 season. Mike starts with a review of August 1963 which included games against Scunthorpe United, Grimsby Town and Portsmouth… Prime Minister – Alec Douglas-Home (as a 15 year old schoolboy I
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest ‘exclusive’ blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It wasn’t great was it the Scunthorpe experience… Despite going in front with just a few minutes to go it all came apart in spectacular fashion. I was transported back to the bad old days of the Seventies and Eighties as apparently grown
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Swindon Town will meet Brentford in the play-offs after a final regular league fixture ended in a 3-1 defeat at Glanford Park, Scunthorpe. Report by Ciaran Hart, perhaps a relation to Paul Hart – although I didn’t ask… Scunthorpe started the better team, they looked like a team fighting for their lives near the bottom of the league, which they
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest ‘exclusive’ blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. After a lot of gloom and doom we DID make the play offs. A couple of weeks ago it appeared that our beloved football team was heading for a season of oblivion. It was being said that it would be a disaster if
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Welcome to Press Watch, the Washbag’s sideways glance at all things Town related in the media. If you see anything remotely concerning Swindon Town in the worlds media get in contact with me via Twitter @mrbraindown Apologies, apologies readers, this week’s Press Watch is a little light on content, to be fair it’s always been very light on substance, but
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. I don’t know about you but this weeks really got me down. A thick wedge of greyness has covered us for days. Hopefully by the time you read this the sky will at last have turned blue. That hasn’t helped our mood when it
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