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Saturday 26th April 2008 – Swansea City 4 Leyton Orient 1 – League One – Match Report by Nigel Gigg Swans finally produced a terrific performance at the Liberty Stadium and brushed aside Leyton Orient in front of a crowd just short of 17,000. For once warm sunshine was the order of the day and …
I came across an old Swans’ Football Programme last week and inside was an interesting question and answer article by the club’s chairman Malcolm Struel. After promotion under Roy Bentley at the end of the 1969/70 season, the club’s third season in the Third Division had seen the club start the new season poorly, with …
The six figure investment last summer in the new training facilities alongside the Glamorgan Health Club in Llandarcy was the first step by Swansea City FC to bring modern day training facilities to the Swans professional playing staff. In previous years, training had been undertaken at the old AWCO sports ground at Jersey Marine and …
Since SKY entered the football arena in the transmission of LIVE football games, fans supporting their Premiership heroes have become accustomed to having their traditional Saturday football game being changed to either a Sunday or Monday event. Not much fuss has been made by the fans who follow their Premiership heroes in having their weekend …
I didn’t go to Millwall on Tuesday but I’ve just seen the goal highlights on Virgin Media. Now you probably know that I do a bit of refereeing in local leagues, which is nothing like as difficult as doing it at Football league level, mainly because professionals move themselves, and the ball, about twice as …
Swansea City Football Club President, Professor David Farmer published in 2000 the Official Biography of the Swans, The Swans Town & City. Next week a supplement to his book, covering the last seven seasons will be published by Colin Jones. Apart from editorial/line-ups covering the last seven seasons and an updated club records section, new …
First of all, congrats to Dai for the new site design. Very smart. I was chuffed when he told me this column was reverting to a ‘blog’ because I’m really pushed for time at the moment, being the ‘oldest student in town’ and having to put in the hours on my college course. This format …
Youth players who have graduated to the Swans’ First Team since the Chris Coleman era, 1990. Can lack of finance be the sole reason when you look at the lack of top class recruits the Swans Youth Department have forwarded to the first team conveyor belt since 1990. Certainly, the Swans have endured some tough …
Well the speculation still refuses to go away linking Big John with a return to the City he grew up to play, his beloved Swansea City. Following an article saying he was on the verge of signing, Huw Jenkins moved to slam the Western Mail stating that the statements made are “untrue” and “an irresponsible …
Firstly, apologies to the loyal readers of this column for the prolonged wait for this much-anticipated update but work and family commitments have prevented me from putting pen to paper (or to put it more accurately, finger to keypad) for some time. It has genuinely been extremely touching to be approached by so many people …