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Fanzai will be watching in Matt Arnold’s dream…
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The ballad of Boxing Day
A poem following the release of the 2015/16 League One fixtures by Matt Arnold…
Read moreAFC Bournemouth’s promotion: The Secret Victim
Matt Arnold’s concerned for the future of Manish Bhasin following AFC Bournemouth’s almost certain promotion to the Premier League….
Read moreThe STFC vs Franchise Drinking Game
Why not try Matt Arnold’s drinking game if you must watch the visit of Franchise FC on the TV..?
Read moreA November Night in Bristol
Following Swindon’s 1-0 win and the terror of Nathan Thompson jumping, Matt Arnold imagines what happened on a November night in Bristol. Monday 17th of November 2014. A suburb of Bristol, some what later than scheduled, a car pulls into a drive outside an ordinary family house. It’s arrival immediately clocked from behind a twitching curtain, and it’s occupant’s interrogation
Read moreConfessions of… A Teenage Fanzine Editor
In the first of a new short feature ‘Confessions of…’, Matt Arnold writes about being a teenage fanzine editor in the mid-1990s and trying to avoid being sued…
Read moreThe Easter interference…
A further development in the ownership saga at Swindon was revealed on Good Friday with news that “three observer directors have been appointed to the club” by the Courts and Seebeck87 Ltd later stating they are the owners of the club, not Lee Power’s ‘Swinton Reds20’. Matt Arnold tries to make some sense of how the situation has arisen…
Read moreNow’s the right time to embrace the fans’ Power
Matt Arnold believes that supporter representation in the corridors of power at the County Ground is not only an aspiration we should all hold, but it is also a workable solution to increase transparency between clubs and their supporters. When I read Vic Morgan’s blog ‘Supporters representatives let’s have a heated debate’, I was reminded of another heated debate. It
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