After twelve months of post Wembley despair, culminating in our drop to the bottom tier of the Football League, who would’ve expected Swindon Town to be able to unveil football legend, but managerial novice, Paolo Di Canio on 20th May 2011 as the man to guide us to promotion… Not since Ossie Ardilles and then Glenn Hoddle were handed the reigns over 20 years
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BBC Radio Wiltshire commentator Vic Morgan continues his weekly blog only here on The Washbag. How was it for you…? A Saturday without football, but a Saturday with a lot of food and drink…. The absence of watching the Town, was partly made up by watching the Scottish Premier League on the telly. Not the same obviously, but it was entertaining. It
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Form… 7th placed Swindon suffered a first defeat in 16 games last time out at Torquay United, meaning that Town have recorded three victories, two draws and one defeat in the previous six outings in League Two. Away from the County Ground, Town have won three, drawn two and defeated once in their previous six League Two games. 23rd placed Northampton Town have had
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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
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January can be the time for troubled sides to change their fortunes through the transfer market and it’s nice that for us this isn’t an issue. However, Paolo Di Canio still wants change. Adam Johnson looks at what might be in stall for Swindon in the January window. Paolo Di Canio has made it pretty clear what he wants from
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The goalkeeping position at Swindon Town has been up for grabs for a very long time. In recent years we’ve seen ‘keepers come and go, a former England u21 international David Lucas fail to stake his claim to the no.1 jersey and the supporters unconvinced by an array of mistakes, with Phil Smith often singled out for blame. Under Paolo Di
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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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No.4 – Swindon 4 Huddersfield 1 This FA Cup 1st Round tie pitted Swindon against League One Huddersfield Town, who at that point had only been defeated twice this season and undefeated in 42 games in League One. Swindon ran out 4-1 victors and in response Paolo Di Canio summed it all up perfectly by stating the result ‘was this
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No.5 – Paul Hart: The worst Swindon manager of all time? In June I set out on the task of attempting to rank all Swindon Town managers since we joined the Football League in 1920 by their actual results. The reason was to analyise whether Paul Hart’s record of 1 win, 4 draws and 6 defeats from 11 games was the most
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No.6 – Matt Ritchie’s strike against Gillingham With my daughter’s impending birth preventing use of my season ticket for the evening I missed Matt Ritchie’s stunning strike against Gillingham. Whether this is something I’ll hold against her I doubt, but I always seem to miss out on the STFC ‘wonder strikes’ over the years for various reasons. Perhaps I’ll not
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