The 2012 Football League Cup Final Marks A New High For Swansea City
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Match Of The Past: Swansea City
Our summer historical tour of twenty clubs of the Premier League turns to Swansea City. Thirty-one years ago, Swansea were preparing for a season in the First Division, and the...
Swansea & Norwich: Cities Counting The Hidden Costs Of Success
This weeks news concerning the apparent departures of Brendan Rodgers and Paul Lambert to Liverpool and Aston Villa respectively means that the warm glow of satisfaction hanging over The Liberty...
Stick Or Twist? A Dilemma For Some Over The Welsh Cup
One of the quieter success stories of the last twenty years of British football has been the establishment of the Welsh Premier League. The foundation of this league, however, was...
Michael Dye: The Death Of A Football Supporter And Tabloid Values
There will be a sombre mood in the air at The Cardiff City Stadium this afternoon, as the team takes to the field for its home league match against Doncaster...
Match Of The Week: Manchester City 4-0 Swansea City
In May of 1983, three clubs were relegated from the First Division. Brighton & Hove Albion were one, and the other two were Swansea City and Manchester City. Manchester City...
The Twohundredpercent Pre-Season Previews: Swansea City
Certain sections of the media have long had the mildly irritating habit of treating 1992 and the beginning of the Premier League as football’s Year Zero. In this world, “the...
Seasons Of Mist & Mellow Fruitfulness: Swansea City & The Premier League
The fixtures are out and the pre-season friendlies have started. This is a time of year for unbridled optimism and Swansea City supporter David James can look forward to his...
The Twohundredpercent Play-Off Jamboree: Reading 2-4 Swansea City
Swansea City stand firm as an example of how much the fortunes of a football club can change in the space of just a decade. They had been promoted from...
Dutch Treat in South Wales: Swansea & Total Football
In general, the phrase “total football” rolls off the tongue as easily as “fiery Welshman Craig Bellamy” and often conjures images of marauding fullbacks flying to spaces ludicrously-high up the...
The Twohundredpercent Play-Off Jamboree: Swansea City 3-1 Nottingham Forest (3-1 Agg)
Thirty years ago, the football world was a very different place. What we now take to be the Premier League was still the First Division of the Football League, three...
Match Of The Week: Swansea City 3-2 Nottingham Forest
Things are getting quite congested at the top of the Championship. Just six points separate second placed Norwich City from Nottingham Forest in sixth place in the table and, should...
Match Of The Week: Swansea City 0-1 Forest
The Championship is starting to open up in the same way that it has in previous seasons, and the chances are that even if Newcastle United and West Bromwich Albion...
Nathan Dyer: Southampton & The Politics Of The Fire Sale
A couple of months ago, Southampton Leisure Holdings, the holding company which owns Southampton Football Club went into administration. There was a brief and ineffectual protest from Southampton FC based...
Match Of The Week: Swansea City 1-1 Fulham
For those of us in our mid-30s, Swansea City left a pretty indelible mark. Our coming of age coincided with theirs, as they rocketed up to the First Division under...
ITV’s FA Cup Disgrace
It’s Wednesday night, and a taut Merseyside derby between Everton and Liverpool is deadlocked at 0-0. With three minutes to play in extra time and the possibility of the first...
On How The BBC Got It So Wrong
Earlier this week, apropos of nothing, really, I sat down and watched the 1979 FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Manchester United. It was like a breath of fresh air,...