Swansea City News, Match Reports & Academy
Read all the latest Swansea City match reports, from first-team fixtures to Academy games – every game, covered in full.
Confidence breeds Class, leading to success. It’s quite difficult for us non participants to value the influence of a good result on the team – but in this instance maybe it’s a little clearer. After the feel good factor of a positively decent Home draw against the class-act that is Tottenham Hotspur only two days …
Passing Purists produce Popular Platter of Festive Fare…, or, less in Tabloidese… Quality Match gets the Right Result. In an entertaining, free-flowing game on the Liberty’s quality surface, both sides produced a display that featured the full range of skills from some of the Premier League’s best technical exponents, albeit one that left each with …
Two points lost or 1 gained ? Perspective is all. When I first started blogging a couple of years ago, I wrote a couple of pieces on a Home game we had coming up against QPR in what turned out to be Ian Dowie’s last game as their Manager.That was the game where Alan Tait …
“Football is an excuse to make us happy.” Jorge Valdano. The wonderful Argentinian, ex Real Madrid coach, World Cup Winner was sometimes known as The Philosopher of Football and the above is an apt description of how we Swans have always viewed our football, and it contrasts markedly with one of his more colourful descriptions …
It’s a phrase you will have heard often enough if you’re a football fan of whichever club – but on occasion it rings true. As it did on Saturday at St James’ Park, when Swansea City clung on to the opening status quo, and suggested, no more, but just now and again, it could have …
“Jogo Bonito”- The Beautiful Game. Or how “We wasn’t robbed”, but maybe we were pilfered. Pickpocketed, even. So it turned out to be a bitterly disappointing day for all we Swans.Having travelled North in great numbers, and despite long periods where our class shone through, we ultimately failed the test of one of the oldest …
This was the one we’d all been waiting for. In a seemingly endless week, perked and peaked by the increasing Media hype, what we got was “one hell of a Football match.” “Sir Alex Ferguson, Matt Busby, Paul Scholes, Roy Keane, Wilf McGuiness, Eamonn Holmes, Terry Christian, Angus Deayton, Lady Diana ………..your bhoys took one …
Swansea produced a memorable performance in a captivating end to end game to hold five time European Cup winners to a goalless draw. Both teams had chances to win it and only great saves from both keepers kept the score line blank. The big news for the Swans today was the inclusion of Wayne Routledge …
We’ve been to some iconic stadia already this year – the Emirates, Stamford Bridge, the Etihad included- but none of those exude the shiver that a football fan gets from Liverpool’s home venue. Go on, say it, Anfield. All over the footballing planet, people will know where you are. From the timeless vibe of the …
A brace from ex-Huddersfield Town midfielder Anthony Pilkington condemned the Swans to their fourth consecutive away defeat. The travelling supporters were left disappointed as Norwich came out clear and deserved winners in the match-up between two of last seasons promoted sides. Leon Britton recovered from the injury that kept him out of the game against …