Swindon Town’s quest for the league title suffered a setback Saturday, as they suffered their second consecutive 2-0 away defeat. The defeat makes a seemingly unassailable lead, slightly less unassailable as a Torquay victory closed the gap to four points. Rosie MacGillivray was at Gresty Road to report. Paolo Di Canio – ever predictable in ensuring his team selection is anything but – rung the changes
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How Di Canio’s desire for width can leave Swindon outnumbered in central midfield, by Alex Cooke. “It’s 10% about the formation and 90% about the players. If you have the best ones and they do their jobs, then they can pretty much play any way you want them to.” Harry Redknapp might be one of Paolo Di Canio’s former managers
Read moreTown lost 2-0 at Crewe Alexandra this afternoon, however despite the defeat did any player come out of this match with their pride intact? Vote for your Swindon man of the match below. The result will be announced in our report on Monday morning.
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Saturday afternoon sees Swindon Town travel to Gresty Road in Crewe… Form Guide… First placed Swindon are currently on a run of two defeats in twenty-four League Two matches. Town’s current form guide reads five wins and one defeat in six outings. Away from the County Ground, Town have four victories and two defeats in six matches, including that defeat last time out at Oxford United. Swindon haven’t kept
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The ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. A friend of mine recently said, “it would be nice to go to Wembley without worrying about slipping down the league”. The point he was making was that a big enough gap would be good, to not damage our position because of missing out on a league weekend. Well, that should be okay
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Today is the 43rd anniversary of the greatest day in our history… the 15th March 1969 saw Swindon Town of Division Three beat the ‘mighty’ Arsenal 3-1 after extra time thanks to a late Don Rogers double. The Town went one up ten minutes before half time, this was after a shambolic mixup allowed Peter Noble to seize upon the loose ball and pass to
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Read TheWashbag.com…. wear TheWashbag.com as we’ve now launched our online shop selling a selection of reasonably priced STFC inspired T-Shirts and other clothing… you can even buy a TheWashbag.com mug. We’ve got a JPT Final T-Shirt for you to wear to Wembley, T-Shirts with our favourite Paolo Di Canio quotes and much more… Money raised will go into a fund
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Sports Journalist and Swindon Town supporter Tom Otrebski provides our next entry into the Hall of Shame. As it’s the tenth inductee we thought we’ll give him two for the price of one and he chose the strike partnership of Tony Thorpe and Jamie Cureton that just failed to live up to high expectations. At the start of the 2005/06 season, manager Andy King looked
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Lee Townsend reviews those members of the Swindon Town squad who haven’t been near the starting XI or even the matchday squad in recent months. He asks whether we can expect to see any of these missing players return before the end of the campaign? Yes, it’s true. Swindon are top of npower League Two and there are many reasons given
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They huffed, they puffed, but they couldn’t blow the house down. Despite a huge dominance in possession, Cheltenham Town couldn’t recover from failing to convert a first half penalty and then going behind shortly afterwards to Paul Benson’s ninth goal of the season. Town’s 1-0 victory was, by all accounts, by the slimmest of margins, but true champions ride their luck, with
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