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Bobby Howe's first name is Stephen.

Harold Fleming may have been related to Alexander Fleming

"Alan Reeves" is an anagram of "Leaveners",  a group of ingredients which make baked good rise - usually through the release of carbon dioxide. The same affect that he'd have on the performance of any side he was in (he'd release carbon dioxide through breathing the same as any other human - FACT)!

Legend.

Big front man Wayne Allison was fondly known by the nickname "Chief", but those who didn't know him as well would call him Wayne.

Instead of cleaning boots, youth team graduate Michael Pook got his place in the first team by rolling Andy King's cigars, on his thighs.

Ty Gooden is allergic to Cucumber.

In our 99/00 first round League Cup exit to Leyton Orient, the second leg at Brisbane Road had an attendence recorded of exactly 4000. What a nice round number.

Turbo's brace at Swindon's last ever game at the scum's Manor Ground was a great day out. But does anybody remember the classic misspelling in the OUFC's matchday programme? In the Div2 round up, "Port Vale" had been typo'd as "Pot Vale". Amateurs.

Swindon's 100% record of competative matches against Juventus is the stuff of records. But did you know we've also never lost to Ilkeston Town?

Richard Legg is the only Swindon Town player to have been named after two body parts.

© Reg Smeeton

Never stuck your Vincent up a Pericard?

At Dorcan my PE teacher was Toe-knee Willy-arms

Was he like korean or something?

We once had a player named Septimus Atterbury.

Sam Ricketts' grandfather used to play for the club.  I'm not aware of any other grandfather/grandson ex-player duos.  But maybe there are others.

As a young athlete, Eric Sabin was a faster sprinter than Usain Bolt.

Wailon Codcolder was a member of the SBS, despite not being able to swim. When this was discovered by the MOD at age 21, he had to go AWOL and form a new identity.

He carved out a career as a successful professional footballer and became the captain of Swindon Town. A player and man who would, in cult legend status, be known as Colin Calderwood.

"Buttons can be made from mother-of-pearl"
John 'Buttons' Sheridan

Paul McAreavey had a twin brother called Stevie.

Swindon Town is the only football league club that does not contain any letters from the word 'mackerel'.

One time town loanee James Milner makes and sells hats on Etsy.

Mickey Hazard has nine toes

Harry Agombar somehow made an appearance for the club

Alan Macloughlin told me to fuck off to my face!

Former Town player Joey Beauchamp was breast fed until he was 36.

Strange, I knew an EyesAnn-EarsAnn-MouthAnn-Knows

Tommy Wright once filled up his tank at Sainsbury’s bridgemead petrol station

Tommy Wight’s got a tank? Cool!

First (and only) team to get 100 points in the league and concede 100 goals in the Prem.

 :clap:

Hake and Perch too.

When on holiday Alan Reeves once got mistaken for his twin brother David.

The crazy mix up literally took minutes to resolve

My Great Great Uncle Jimmy played for Swindon and scored in his only 1st team game against Ilford in 1895.

My Great Great Grandfather was a lay preacher at Christ Church in Old Town between 1875 and 1885 along with William Baker Pitt, as far as I know he had no input in the creation of the football club in 1879.

A few things that I've picked up over the years...

Michael Pook is quite big on the English Civil War reanactment scene and excels as Thomas Fairfax.

Miles Storey calculates distances in kilometres and kilometres only.

Ollie Lancashire doesn't know which county Blackburn is in.

Bart Griemink is a limo driver.

Taylor Curran spent the summer of 2017 writing lyrics for the Spanish National Anthem.

I heard that STFC is by far the greatest team the world has ever seen. I am not sure this has been objectively verified.

That much is axiomatic.

Isn't that one of those variable speed gearboxes in Citroens? :D

Sol Davis once played a full 45 minutes without trying to break someone’s legs.

Gary Elkins doesn't believe hail stones are real.

Raphael Rossi Branco is the Stig.

My parents used to live next door to Martin Ling when he was a player and my mate bought Dave Hockadays house. Also Colin Calderwood, Fitzroy Simpson and Duncan Shearer lived on the same estate as me and I worked with Chris Kameras wife when I left school😀

You'll never see Rockin Robin and Jutty in the same room.

Rory Fallon is chief ice cream taster at a minor artisan  ice cream manufacture

Keith O’Halloran is a trained lion tamer.

Surely a lot better than being an untrained lion trainer?

Very true FH.

The late  Alan McDonald scored his only goal for us with his arse.

Kaleidoscope Fremantle is the most notorious player ever to have graced a Swindon Town FC shirt.

Gareth Whalley’s post football career as a life statue faltered when he was too slow to react to a child putting 20p in the hat.

Iffy Onoura once won a glamorous granny competition at Butlins

There is a reason for that 4D, we don’t mix in the same circles.

Pitman played Joe Roscoe in Hollyoaks.

Micky Hazard is responsible for corn circles

Maybe lions have a phobia of glass legs.

We have a 100% win rate with him playing as a goal keeper.

Not a fact really but a genuine post match presser quote from a previous manager

I thought we started very, very brightly but the Achilles heel which has bitten us in the backside all year stood out like a sore thumb

Sounds like the sort of thing Dave Hockaday would come out with - he loves his mixed metaphors

Good guess

It was actually the cigar muncher.

Bit like a Coleman balls.

I miss Dave Hockadays constant moaning and criticising during commentary in games.

Good work. I had a whole list of his Colemanballs at one time, but this was his standout moment.