Just so i get the full picture, can you list all instances of this history please.
Thanks
I've no idea how far you go back, but some of this stuff is relatively recent, for example the banning of fans like Mex, and the whole protest movement to save the club.
Again relatively recent would be TE'ers receiving letters threatening bans for standing in the TE
In the 60's the Supportrers Club used to a have a club house in some huts on the corner of the car park, for pre match beers etc. When the Arkells was built, they were provided with a nice new facility..... turfed out in the 80's. The 70's and 80's would see arbitary erection of fences and cages, in the TE and on the Shrivenham Road, likewise when the TV gantry which hung on the Shrivenham Road stand was condemned a scaffolding thing was built on the half way line terrace taking up space and blocking the view of where fans had congregated for years. This would have been late 80's a time also of membership schemes when for example during agame v Oldham 200 Town fans were evicted and had their membership revoked.
Those 80's years were the height of the Fanzine movement to try and point out to authorities and clubs the error of their ways, which led at STFC to efforts to ban match day sales.
Matters did improve somewhat when Fitton and CO stepped in but even they burnt the final bridges to small scale shareholders and effectively binned the AGM's where fans could quiz owners etc.
Of course a lot of this stuff was on a national scale, which led to things like Supporters Direct, a body to improve communications between fans and clubs, which have led to charter requirements, to hold the FL golden share.
Oh and here's another one Rikki's penchant for giving the TE to opposition fans.... to me this game v Shitty is a crime against humanity, presumably you regard it it as wholly reasonable.
See the Town fans ecstatic about Junior Bent's goal....
http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19910103