Tag: Ferrie Bodde

Leeds – Ten Years On

We bring you a nostalgic piece about a classic Swansea City game. This was originally published in SoS fanzine for the tenth anniversary of the match in December 2017. Things were very different in this part of south Wales a decade ago. We were in League 1, the Swansea Way had only just been implemented

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Swansea seasons: 2008/09

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…

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Swansea seasons: 2007/08

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…

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Top Twenty Away Days This Century. Number 15.

There was a feeling of what might have been as I boarded the bus on this Friday night in January, for a game against a side close to us in the League 1 table. Whilst this was a huge game, the elephant in the room was the fact that we should have been at Anfield for an FA Cup 4th round tie instead of playing this fixture…

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