Swansea City News, Match Reports & Academy
Our U18 took a chastening 5-0 loss this evening to Fulham in the rearranged FA Youth Cup tie. Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that the opposition is superior – and this evening was one of those games. Category One side Fulham even had the luxury of leaving out last week’s star performer, winger Lemar …
Something of a turnup for the books – this evening’s FA Youth Cup encounter being abandoned after a lengthy half-time delay. Although extremely chilly, the conditions weren’t appreciably worse than a few other recent games at Landore. Neither was there was any noticeable loss of control of the ball or challenges during the first half. …
The Swans suffered a torrid evening against Championship leaders Fulham at the Swansea dot com stadium last night, with the game effectively over as a contest after Ryan Manning’s sending off just minutes before half-time. The Irishman was shown a straight red card by Australian official Jarred Gillett for his challenge on Harry Wilson, which …
The world is definitely looking like a better place after this game! 2 goals, a clean sheet, back up to 10th in the Premier League table and 6 points clear of Cardiff, who are bottom! It’s not happy days just yet and there is plenty of hard work still to be done, but this was …
The contrast from last week’s disappointing loss at Blackburn to this week’s Home fixture v Fulham will be particularly stark, however much we are naturally tempted to look at the teams in and around us in the Table as being the really key fixtures. Ostensibly, in comparing the two opponents, one is initially tempted to …
Swansea City v Fulham – FA Cup 5th Round on Saturday, 14th February 2009 I have watched Fulham twice (courtesy of Sky) since the draw was made and think we have a very good chance in this one. In fact, I would say that I will go into this one with more optimism than I …