Tag: Premier League

Opposition View – Sunderland

Ben Fraser from A Love Supreme fanzine answers our questions ahead of Saturday’s trip to the Stadium of Light. It’s probably fair to say you’ve had a bad start to the season. Why have things gone wrong so far? Considering that these early games are our ‘easier’ run of fixtures, it would be diplomatic to say

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Five things from Newcastle at Home

Slide Rule Shelvey One thing I really like about Jonjo Shelvey is that he’ll play the risky ambitious or “hollywood” pass as it’s become known. Admittedly he sometimes does it too much but he’s now learning when to take this option and his assist for the first goal was sublime. He and Bafetimbi Gomis are

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10 historical facts about Newcastle United

As part of a new feature for the website this year we will bring you ten interesting facts about our opponents each time they visit the Liberty. We start with the first visitors to south Wales this term – Newcastle United The club was founded in 1892 by the merging of two clubs – Newcastle

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Five things from Chelsea away

The season started with a bang yesterday as the Swans produced a fantastic performance at Stamford Bridge, here’s five things from the game The Tannoy Announcer Can someone please politely tell him in future to keep his voice down. Anyone who was in the stadium 15 minutes before kick off I’m sure will understand what

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All-time Prem Record, plus other stats

Seeing as there’s now a bit of a lull in news during the summer break, I decided to have a look at our individual record against each team we’ve faced since we won promotion to the Premier League four years ago. I’ve comprised a table below detailing each result against each opponent across the last

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Another year, another tough start!

The fixture man clearly likes to see Swansea City suffer a defeat on the opening day of the campaign. In three of our four previous Premier League season’s we have been paired with Manchester City and twice with Manchester United and now today saw the news that we will open 2015/6 with a trip to

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Opposition view – Crystal Palace

Matt Woosnam from Five Year Plan fanzine discusses his high’s and lows following Crystal Palace this term. How’s the season been for you? It started in January when we nabbed Pardew from Newcastle. Warnock’s football was really poor for the most part and the results reflected that. Certainly everyone felt a change was gonna come,

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