The thought of another campaign with this man in charge did make me tempted to not renew my season ticket…
The thought of another campaign with this man in charge did make me tempted to not renew my season ticket…
“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…
We return to the capital for this week’s countdown and narrowly missing out on the top ten is one of our biggest ever results on the way to winning our first ever major trophy. Having despatched Middlesbrough in our first ever quarter final we faced the Blues at Stamford Bridge in the last four looking for a good result ahead of the return at the Liberty…
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…
The Swans came up against Brendan Rodgers for the first time since his departure, in a 4th round League Cup tie, and it would not be a happy reunion for our former manager…
Michael Laudrup took charge of Swansea for the first time on the opening day of our second Premier League season and it was a day that will live long in the memory.
If you take one thing from this feature once it’s been concluded, it’s that if you’re debating a London away trip then always decide to go. This is the fourth game running from the capital and there’s no doubt whatsoever that after just five minutes of this match, the chances of it featuring in a top away days list appeared to be very slim…
When I left work early to catch a train to London for a midweek clash at Loftus Road at the start of the season, I had no idea I was off to witness an away day that would live long in the memory.
The Swans recently put a poll out about the best away days in recent years and some of the selections and votes left me feeling underwhelmed. So I’m going to bring you my top 20 over the coming weeks and months and rank them in what I think is the correct order…
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