Seasons – Swansea Oh Swansea

Swansea seasons: 2010/11

29 June 2020

The thought of another campaign with this man in charge did make me tempted to not renew my season ticket…

Swansea seasons: 2009/10

22 June 2020

“I had to be kicked out as a player and it’ll be the same as manager.” The now infamous words of Roberto Martinez on the pitch at Gillingham when we won promotion in 2008…

24 years. That’s how long it had been since we were in English football’s second tier and we were going to enjoy it. Sadly our plans started badly when Andy Robinson decided to remain in League 1 with Leeds and Paul Anderson elected to join promotion rivals Nottingham Forest. Martinez signed a handful of new players to compensate for this; the standout one was Jordi Gomez who would soon become a hero…

Swansea seasons: 2007/08

8 June 2020

This was truly the start of the tika-taka football that we now see to this day. Roberto Martinez reshaped his squad during the summer with, Dorus De Vries, Angel Rangel, Ferrie Bodde, Paul Anderson and Jason Scotland all arrived and formed the basis of the new look side…

Swansea seasons: 2006/07

1 June 2020

Kenny Jackett made a new centre half his top priority in the summer of 2006 but his attempts to sign one were pretty disastrous. Roger Johnson was on his way here until Huw Jenkins went blabbing to the press which alerted Cardiff and he then signed for our arch rivals. That was bad enough but then Dean Leacock’s record transfer from Fulham fell through when he failed a medical…

Swansea seasons: 2005/06

25 May 2020

Kenny Jackett was embarking on his first full season at the club and it was obvious where he needed to strengthen.

Swansea seasons: 2004/05

18 May 2020

Kenny Jackett was embarking on his first full season at the club and it was obvious where he needed to strengthen.

Swansea seasons: 2003/04

4 May 2020

Win our first three league games, then lose a top of the table clash in the next game…

Swansea seasons: 2002/03

27 April 2020

People moaning about being in the top six of the Premier League? Imagine what they would’ve been like the year we spent all season in the bottom six on what is now League 2!