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In a first team match?

Paul Robinson against us for Leeds, and Jimmy Glass' famous Scarborough killing Carlisle effort when he was on loan from us.

I was pretty sure it's never happened, but then started wondering if I'd forgotten anything obvious, or maybe something from the history books.

T'was only a few months ago...


https://youtu.be/Q8NwTFziRU4

Other end :D

Pretty sure its not happened in my 45+ years of watching Swindon, before then though, no idea.

I remember one keeper but not for the life of me his name or roughly when it was that had a clearance bounce just once and the ball went a yard or so over the bar at the Town End in slightly windy conditions.

Not for us, but I saw this one in the flesh while wearing a Swindon top

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycwA6SWZ364

Not really what you're looking for but David Lucas scored in a penalty shoot-out vs. Wolves.

Closest I think we'll get. Had a meander through the swindon-town-fc archives in case someone had done something in the 1890's, but just ended up watching 6 days to Saturday. Which was nice.

My grey matter may be playing tricks but didn’t we have a goalie score in a penalty shoot out at SN1?

I do this regularly.  Lovely film.

I think it has it's own thread somewhere.

Couldn't see anything at http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/StatAttack/TeamTableResults.asp?Type=PSO, but the shootout scorers aren't always listed.

May have even been an opposition keeper. But hey as I stated my grey matter could be playing tricks.

It is fantastic. There's a bit in the boardroom where they are discussing a possible new North Stand, which  took me on a bit of a random tangent of the works of architect Pier Luigi Nervi (http://"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Luigi_Nervi"), wondering what would we'd have got if the North Stand they'd commissioned him to design actually got built.

Alan Mcdonald both played in goal for us and scored for us, seeing as we're scraping the barrel.

That would have been amazing and would probably have been listed.

Ooooh. Having to put an outfield player in goal. That must have happened more often!

Stuart Nelson (the borrower) for Brentford. Early/mid-2000s I think.

Didn't have the penalty scorers on swindon-town-fc, but https://www.11v11.com/matches/swindon-town-v-brentford-22-august-2006-274387/ does. Good memory!

Andy Rowland went into goal a few times in the days before many subs were allowed.

What a great day at Loftus Road that was... Well apart from my hangover.

Bob Menham scored a couple of penalties in 1900/1, that's it for Town keepers.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19010604
http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19010510

That counts! I knew there had to be something from the olden times. :D

The oracle has spoken!

Don't know why this was missing... fixed now :)

I think there was another one missing penalty scorers.....

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19871203 e: think the scorers might be harder to find for that though,

(Also thankyou for such an amazing resource, I often get lost in it for hours)

Think that would be the Bob Menham who played for Everton in the FA Cup final ?,  The great, or great, great grandfather of John Menham,  well known supporter of Town who up until recently never missed a game, home or away for forty years. Remember his father telling me he had the original programme from the game which was framed and hung from his bedroom wall for many years.  Unfortunately it had faded so much over the years it was virtually  unrecognizable.  You should have seen his face when I told him what the value of it was had it been in good condition !!.
Did manage to get him a copy of the original so at least he has got a readable version on his wall now.  In all the years I've known the Menham family I never realised he actually played for the Town though !!.

As did Jimmy Quinn and Andy Rowland.

Glad you enjoy it.  And you're right... I haven't found the details for that shootout yet... I think there are a couple of others I don't have as well.



Yep, one and the same!

See at this link. Apologies if this has already been posted.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/calcioengland.com/2019/03/22/florence-rome-swindon-how-the-grand-master-of-italian-stadium-design-nearly-made-his-mark-in-england/amp/

cool stuff

Reg Smeeton would have been all over this thread with his information.