How to avoid a heart attack…
Australian-based Town fan Steve Hall nearly had a heart attack watching the 5-5 draw…
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It was 50 years ago today…
Steve Hall’s remembers his first game watch Swindon Town 50 years ago and wonders whether the upcoming visit of Chelsea will similarly inspire a new generation of Town supporters? As I write, in seven hours and one minute’s time it will be 50 years ago on the dot that my first Swindon Town game started. At midnight Sydney time, 3pm UK time
Read moreSex and Football – Part 2: It just doesn’t mix…
The second and final part of Steve Hall’s tale of his conquests and why sex and football just doesn’t mix… I don’t know if it’s fate, luck or coincidence but all of my attempts to combine girls and football have had similarly mixed results – at best. My next attempt was with 16 year old Dorothy. As I was 22
Read moreSex and Football – Part 1: It’s only a game…
Steve Hall recalls how he found out that sex and football just doesn’t mix for him… I really shouldn’t have ordered my wife to get out of the car. After all she’d risen before the crack of dawn to crowd into an Italian coffee shop along with a throng of Italian and England fans in Sydney’s Leichhardt area, suffered through 90 minutes
Read moreGoing Up! 2006/07 – A distant view on promotion under Wise & Sturrock
Australian based Swindon Town supporter Steve Hall recalls events from our previous promotion from the fourth tier in 2006/07, long haul flights and an affinity for the Monkey Hangers. My vivid recollection of the final game of the 2006-7 season is a testament to the unreliability of memory – or perhaps to early (or not so early) onset Alzheimer’s. My
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