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Swindon Town draw up to second.

Swindon Town seemed unlucky not to come away with 3 points, but still moved up to second place in League 1 with a draw against mid-table Notts County. County’s keeper Bartosz Bialkowski kept the visitors in the game with a string of class stops. Final score 0-0. See also: www.swindontownfc.co.uk www.swindonweb.com/?m=133&s=2028&ss=2082&c=12201&t=Swindon+0+Notts+County+0   SPONSOR A GALLERY […]

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Town hit a wall as The Saddlers snatch a late leveler.

Swindon Town”s first game at home under the era team of Kevin McDonald and Mark Cooper saw Andy Williams (11) and Simon Ferry (79) net for Town but Will Grigg (32 Pen) and Jamie Paterson (90) saw two points lost in the promotion race. SWINDON TOWN 2 WALSALL 2 Match report and interviews: http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/index.aspx SPONSOR […]

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Town’s New Era complete with McDonald in Managers roll.

The Swindon Town “New Era” has taken shape with the appointment of Manager  Kevin MacDonald who faced the media and declared that, after many years in coaching and assistant management roles, he is ready to make the tough decisions and deal with the demands that being a championship manager brings. The 52 year old Scot […]

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Swindon Town new era – new Board press conference gallery.

Swindon Town showed off their new owners to the media in a press conference at the County Ground. New Chairman Jed McCory with Director Callum Rice, Commercial Director Gary Hooper and General Manager Steve Murrall were all speaking to the press about the take over and the future of the club. SPONSOR A PAGE OR […]

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Sport shorts. Takeover and out.

Statement from the football club about the completed sale of the football club. THE Board are delighted to announce they have now received clearance from the Football League and have completed of the sale of Swindon Town Football Club to Seebeck 87 Limited, a company backed by a consortium headed by Jed McCrory. Following completion, […]

Swindon fall again to Monkhouse Voodoo

Swindon fall again to Monkhouse Voodoo

Once again Andy Monkhouse, the former Town man, pops up and scores a vital goal for Hartlepool against his old Club and stopped Di Canio’s men  going to the top of Div. 1. Simon Ferry scored the opener in the first half of a match played on a heavy surface. But despite 2nd half domination […]

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Swindon lose to Gillingham 1-0 in Extra time. The ladies that is.

Swindon Town Ladies took on Gillingham Ladies FC, who play in a league higher the them, in the ladies edition of the FA Cup. The match held at the Fairford FC ground was 0-0 at full time, but a goal mid way through the second period of extra time sealed it for the visitors from […]

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Sport shorts.

That makes it three. Lady refs that is. As featured in an earlier blog Swindon’s top teams seem to be attracting lady referees at the moment; and what’s wrong with that? Alexandra Ihringova was at the County Ground on Saturday as a linesman and Joy Tottman was one of the officials at the Link the […]

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Town tame the Shrews.

With ‘For Sale’ signs up and a mass clearing of the pitch on Friday night, Swindon ended a turbulent week on a high note with a brace of second-half goals. After the headlines concerning the sale of the club and a mammoth effort to clear the pitch of snow in time to actually play, the […]

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Lucky mascot Joe.

Joseph Compton is proving to be a lucky mascot. During a thunderstorm in the late summer Joe was hit by lightning as he waited outside Dorcan Academy in Swindon for a lift home. The bolt of lightning caused his heart to stop, burst his ear drums and caused severe burns across 22 per cent of […]