They’re back! Find the Swindon Town-connected facts, dates and names to depress/impress you and your friends. There are five more tough puzzles to test you. By Alex Cooke Ahead of the FA Cup tie with Eastleigh, we’ve again put together a series of quiz walls, much like those in BBC Four virgin-off Only Connect. If you know how to play
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BOO and emboldened Boo-ers dominate Alex Cooke’s list of the lessons to be taken from this weekend’s win, plus Nathan’s notes and Bakayogo’s bad record 1. Mind-altering short corners This might be as fashionable as jeggings for the over 60s but Town are currently using some innovative corner routines. Early in the first half Yaser Kasim and Fabien Robert came
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Alex Cooke looks at how Swindon’s 3-5-2 is shaping up. Suddenly 3-5-2 is fashionable. With Manchester United struggling, everyone is suddenly keen to talk about three at the back, and closer to home, to compare Mark Cooper’s use of it with Louis Van Gaal’s. But Cooper’s 3-5-2 is slightly different to the one used at Old Trafford, and for Holland – despite
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It all ended rather tamely didn’t it? Our chances of the play offs finally disappeared in a blur of red and yellow cards on the Meadow Lane swamp… Pre-match the main topic of conversation was the constant watering of the pitch. It seemed amazing
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With the High Court contest between Jed and Lee likely to drag on into the summer, Alex Cooke chooses to compare a loan signing from Spurs to a holiday fling with a Spanish waiter… Perhaps Alex Pritchard should have been loved at Swindon Town. The Spurs’ loanee gave an otherwise indirect team incision and élan. With his drop of the
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Two wins out of two and the play offs remain an outside possibility with just two Saturdays of the season to go. The first victory came bizarrely at Northampton against Coventry City. I found it difficult though out Friday’s game to remember we were
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It was a great game wasn’t it? Maybe not one for the purists but last Saturday’s match against Brentford was a full blooded affair. Full of incident, I think it was one of my favourite games of the season. It also saw the return
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. So here’s the thing. I got home from work at two in the morning, up two and a half hours later to start the seemingly never ending day that is Carlisle United away. Leaving Devon in the dark, there were internal questions regarding sanity and what the whatsits were we doing.
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Hands up those who thought our season was over? Yep that’s right most of us. Well last Saturday’s win over Sheffield United proved that it’s not quite. Two things were settled. The first that any lingering fears of a dramatic slide down the table
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Quite a week. Two wins and once again some fans are even mentioning the Play Offs. Don’t let’s get carried away, or should we? If it means the end of the season is a little more exciting then let’s get carried away. Actually I’m
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