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On the fourth day of Christmas….The best away day
Dec. 28 | “On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, an away trip that fills you with glee.” Who doesn’t love a football away day. Bunch of mates, a few beers, being beaten senseless by the police, stones thrown at you by local...
Derby Day 2 – The new steel city derby
Dec. 28 | Mark Pitman reports from The GenQuip Stadium as Port Talbot Town were held by local rivals from literally around the corner, Afan Lido in the Welsh Premier League. Gareth Elms was on hand for the photo’s. Once a traditional festive derby in the...
Derby Day part 1 – Double figures in Welshpool
Dec. 28 | Ben Westmancott travels west to Wales for one of the most local derbies in the United Kingdom and sees an eleven goal massacre. Local derbies rarely get much closer than this (geographically speaking). Waterloo Rovers and Welshpool Town occupy pitches...
On the third day of Christmas….The best new ground visited
Dec. 28 | “On the Third Day of Christmas my true love gave to me….a trio of new grounds to see” This was a toughie. We saw games in forty new grounds in 2011 and so to pick three was very difficult because all had endeering factors. Whyteleafe’s...
On the first day of Christmas….The best atmosphere
Dec. 26 | Welcome to our annual “awards” – celebrating all that is good about the game from our tours around the world. By 31st December we will have seen 115 games in 2011, which as CMF reminds me is one almost every three days. She would...
What’s it like to win away?
Dec. 23 | Leaving Christmas shopping to the very last minute, Abi Davies hopped on the team coach and headed north to Merseyside to take on the troubled toffees. Having earned their third point away from home at the weekend, Swansea went into their final game before...
Swansea silence the Sports Direct Arena at St James Park
Dec. 19 | Christmas shopping? Not on your nelly…Abi Davies boarded the Swansea fun bus and headed as far north as you can in the Premier League with a visit to the St James, errr Sports Direct Arena. Swansea City made the long journey North on Saturday...
Fulham’s Europa adventure comes to a very late end
Dec. 18 | It was interesting to note last week that, after both Manchester clubs went out of the champions league, the considered opinion of at least one national newspaper was that they now faced the humiliation of Thursday night football in the Europa League. So...
Swans make light work of the Cottagers
Dec. 12 | Our very own Abi Davies has returned to the Earth’s orbit after a celebratory weekend toasting the pride of South Wales. Suffering their sixth defeat of the season at Ewood Park last weekend, I felt Saturday’s fixture against Fulham was an...
