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I can't sleep.

We're going to lose, aren't we?

I just got up.

No, we're not.

I have A feeling we could conceed 4 today. Not sure why just do. Hope it's not a day similar to the thrashing at Forest.

Not optomistic despite my score prediction.

I reckon we'll take a point :) .

Simon Cox > Matty Fryatt

WE ARE STAYING UP SAY WE ARE STAYING UP!!!

i can see us getting a point today. you going to the game luci?

I'm well looking forward to today. I just hope the players are up to it.

Reading Wilsons comments about approaching the game to get something out of it, I fear we are playing with only one up front (Cox), so five across the middle then.

You fear wrong i think dell

Are you going today?

6-0 Swindon.

Yep be there in an hour dell. Mcgovern has been dropped

For who Dean?

I too have a feeling we might get battered today.

I sincerely hope not.

3-1 to Leicester

This is likely to be one of those games where we get battered and capitulate to a 5-0 or something. Equally, we could put in a sterling battling rearguard defensive performance and come away with a valuable point. The point is, we just don't know what team will turn up.

I'm sticking (optimistically) to my 0-0 prediction.

We need some points on the board out of the next three games (Leicester, Millwall and Scunny) - that's a tough ask.

i nearly had enough motivation to go today,not quite enough though.been doing some garden work before it all starts growing like fuck again.i think we'll get beaten but will make a game of it.

Sat in the counting house.. I wonder which forumer is who!!!!!

Anyone having trouble with fucking "World"?AGAIN!

Yes mate, I dont think its turned on yet as the link on the Leeds game is fine (I clicked it to test my connection not to listen to it!)

They haven't been turning it on until 3-ish lately, for whatever gay reason.

Ooh it's nearly football time. Seems ages since we had a game. Have I just forgotten about a few?

I just wrote a slightly football connected entry on me and spacey's blogalog.

Timlin and Smith J back in-ooooh

World still not on....listening to Leicester commentary....crap.

Whats the starting lineup?

Brez Smith Ifil Greer Vincent;Amank Timlin Kanyuka Kanu;Cox Paynter

My God - Leicester's commentary team are so confident, its like they are saying theres no point in Swindon actually turning up today!

I fucking hope we can get a result to stick it up their asses.

Still no World-Leicester commentary works,Tim Flowers punditing!

Amankwaah on the wing then?

Yep

Our world link seems to be playing the Salisbury game sort off.

Fucking World...this is pathetic

All the talk about going for it, then we play 6 defenders?

Same as, got the Leicester commentary, useless cunts.

I think what we're "going for" is a 0-0!

Tim Flowers bigging up our support

When's he going to mention that he used to play for us?

Yeah I thought that was nice.

Bit of Town pressure-come on lads!

Orient winning-shit

Allen's size obviously coming into play today...dropped from the squad?

Well it is our first visit to the Crisp Bowl.

bored

"referees getting a few verbals from andy king"

Been a while since ed's said that.

Brilliant save by Brez

is there really nothing happening?

Still no Swindon commentary?

Brighton losing,Yeovil winning-fucking Aaron Brown scores!

Yeovil...wankers...2-0 up away at Peterboro.

And still bloody Salisbury commentary on world.

Swindon in "under the cosh" shocker

SHIT THE FUCKING BED!!!!!

yessssssssssssss

COX!!!!!

GET THE FUCK IN!!!!!!!

COXER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BEAUT

the mind games with matty fryat seem to be working, get it

hahahaha we are asking for trouble now :)

Feed The Cox, and HE WILL SCORE !!!

GET IN THERE !!!

Get in!

i've timed logging in well...what did i miss?

Sounds like Paynter and Cox linked up well again for the goal and Timlin providing the pass. Good stuff.

No much...bar the last few minutes...

and another plus side the scots are doing pretty well against the french...i can't help but think they don't train for when things go their way...the scots definitely look confused when given the chance to make ground

john solako just said we should've been losing, log in...booooooom!

Keep it clean til the half boys!

The boy's a fool!

What do you expect from an ex-plastic !!!

some semblence of football punditry?

(the counter to that argument is two words- david pleat)

whits just told me over 1200 swindon, singing " ooooooooooooooohhhhh in 1993 on play off final day....."

:)

as good as this is from a selfish and retrospective point of view-ooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :(

haha, have you seen his 'fan' page on facebook. nearly 20 pages of pleatisms.

has anyone got a link for this please?

dont have world

You won't be able to listen online without World, unless the beeb have left the links on by accident (they haven't). Even with World you'll be lucky to listen to the game.

how does that 1993 song go in full?

Here we go -45 minutes to hold on

'93 we came up from the west
chillin' out to a tribe called quest
we were young, 16 years ago
climbing trees and pounding ho's

oh. nineteen-ninety-three
oh. nineteen-ninety-three
oh. nineteen-ninety-three
ohhh nineteen-ninety-three

How does tht song go in full?

in 1993 on play off final day
the swindon went to wembley
there shirts were bright and gay

leicester looking fabulous, perms and dead tight shorts
anal beads and butt plugs
and cocks like a big horse

Do you write lyrics for The Dirty Cakes?

Ciy's 4th choice keeper coming on!

injury? coxy test him early

Brez double fisted.

Shouldn't that be in the 'Not Safe for Work' section?

Have just logged on.  We're winning at Leicester.  That's odd.

Martin's injured ... his feelings have been hurt by the Swindon fans' insensitivity

They're going to score soon aren't they?

the worlds upside down both us and oxford are winning!

Time for some McNamee magic!

oooh close.

ooooh-its coming!

Cox close!

Town"hanging on by the skin of their teeth"

God this is hard to listen to....what with the City commentary as well....

We are holding on.

Kanu with a chance......close....saved.

Kanu forces a brilliant save from the 4th choice keeper

Keep hanging! The way others scores are going a win is important!

Bring on Razak, he'll shake them up a bit at the back.

Or get sent off!

Town in good voice :)

Tim Flowers is fucking brilliant-sign him up BBC Swindon

How long left?

Innit. He's great.

I totally agree...great commentary...and analysis of the formation and team and game.

Such a revelation compared to the shit we normally have on match days.

10 plus stoppage

About 15 I think, they kicked off late due to the minutes silence....more like 3 mins.

Bugger! Thought we were in the last couple of mins.

i've bothered to turn on my radio for this!

Wahey Wilson in touchline scuffle-get in my son!

What happened?

Brilliant save by Brez!

FFS I can't take much more of this

jesus, i don't want to listen anymore...

Sounds like Brez is getting back to his best then!

fucking hell. leicester miss free header from 6 yards out.

eek

Open goal-missed by Andy King!

Wyhats happening? Hereford beating Chelters now

This is nerve wracking!

noooo

Six fucking interminable minutes!

for fucks sake

1-1 oh well it was on the cards for some time

tits

Bollocks!!

Surprise surprise.

I really thought we were going to hold on!

surprise surprise

Comeon Town!

cunts

agreed adje!

Havethey scored again?

Brez again!

calm down NMH,1-1 still

pleeeeeease

Cmon, just one breakaway and flukey shot is all we need! Lets win this one!

wooo!

Decent!But we drop a place

good game good game

I'm to blame.  Was pulling Town shirt on to 8 month old son as they scored.  Sorry chaps.

Quoted on Sky: Leicester salvaged a point.

From you lot: Swindon spawned a point!

Shame about the equaliser, but did any of us really expect to come away with anything.

GREAT RESULT!!!!!!!!

agreed bangkok, i'd have settled for a point a few weeks ago

Good result. I'm sure we'll hear some feedback about the performance.

Why oh why can we grind out results against the better sides in this division, yet perform like a bunch of amateurs against the likes of Cheltenham, Crewe etc......

A change in management perhaps?

Because we're not very good and have prima donna's in the team that only try in big games?

If that's true, the players are not too bright.  If they want to be spotted, scouts are more likely to turn up if we're near the top of the table.

Don't want to be moaning now though.  Despite the late disappointment, we did well today.  Under Malpas, we would have been hammered today.  We're far from safe, but we're doing OK.  Well done lads.

Please can these texts be tongue in cheek

I don't think that the Prima Donna thing is true.

The same squad (More or less) did OK under Sturrock, fell apart under MM and are now doing better under DW.

I wonder where we will be in the league now if DW was in charge at the start of the season.

And the Lesster commentators are saying that we deserved our draw.

To be fair we were never "hammered" under Malpas

Not by scoreline but certainly by some performances.

Quite possibly.

My post wasn't meant as a whinge by the way (having read it back it sounds like I'm a right moaning bastard, or never satisfied). I'm more than happy with a point today.

From the official site's match report....

"The Robins played out a classic counterattacking performance on their first ever visit to the Walkers Stadium with Peter Brezovan and the defence playing their full part in gaining a point. which means that Swindon have drawn both league games against the Foxes this season.   

Swindon Town boss Danny Wilson recalled Jack Smith and Michael Timlin to the starting line-up for The Robins' first ever trip to The Walkers Stadium.

Town's first ever visit to City's new home saw Kevin Amankwaah pushed up to right midfield with Smith at right-back."

That's paragraphs 2,3 and 4.

Any idea how many times Swindon have played at the Walkers Stadium?

1.  Played quite a lot at filbert street though.

Yes and unfortunately were refereed by that cunt Kelvin Morton more than once.
Good result today - happy with that.
First goal we've conceded while Vincent has been on the pitch follwing his injury.

Fantastic result. Progress is being made. Fingers crossed we can get some wins in.

Just got back, we showed alot of bottle and defended well with some good counter attacking! robson kanu should have scored and we could have conceded more! The town fans were awsome today and we most definitely deserved at least a point. A very enjoyable game!

There are encouraging signs...but the scale of the task is shown by the fact we're now a point better off than in 05/06 after the same number of games...then we took 10 from the next 4, to make it look like we would escape, but of course didn't.

We still don't win games....6 in 28, we're going to need probably 7 from 18, so  need to improve.

Based on that game we have no worrys

Unfortunately, you can't base a season on one game....Leicester have recently struggled a bit at home...previous 2 games 0-0...v 10 man Oldham and Brighton....we need to win more games.

Now that I am very pleased to hear.

Good performance

Only concern is that we seem to be playing two games a week for the next 5 weeks.  Fitness levels will be key in the coming few weeks

To be fair Reg to do that we need to fucking play some. We've only had two games in a month both away at sides in the top 6, both of which we've taken points from. I'll settle for drawing every away game from now until the end of the season and hoping we can pick up wins at home.

Don't get me wrong, until we pick up some wins we're still in dire trouble. The use of the word 'fantastic' was to signify the fact that I thought we'd lose today :)

Another tough game next though... Hopefully confidence really is high in the squad.

Obviously I wasn't at the game but having just read DW's comments on the OS I get a nice warm feeling that we've got a manager who really manages and knows how many beans make 5. Definitely not a one stringed violinist.

Mixed metaphorically speaking, that is.

That was a great day. Superb effort from the fans and a good team performance for a hard earned point. It only feels like it should be shit because we scored first.

Just got back, good match!  We didn't sit and defend, we actually went and had a go, which is pleasing!  The defence looks much more solid now with players putting their bodies on the line for a change.  Wanky had a good game on the right, as did Jack Smith at RB, and Greer and Ifil looked a solid partnership in the middle.  Timlin was poor 1st half and slightly better 2nd.  Kanu was hot and cold.  I thought Paynter didn't have his best game, seemed lethargic but I thought Cox ran his bollocks off for the team today.  Brez looks like he is getting back to his best as well, though he still needs to dominate his 6 yard box more.

The Stadium was very impressive, but the home fans were a joke!  Quiet as fook until they scored in the 88th minute!  They do not deserve a stadium like that!

Well done to the town fans today!  Taught the city fans a lesson in how to support your team!  Disapointing we didn't hold on for all 3 but happy with the 1.  Would defo had taken that this morning, so I came away a happy man!

As somebody has already said, going on that performance, we have no worries as far as relegation goes this season!  Just need a run of consistency now!

This of course is an issue...it can be difficult to see in advance, when it might be good or bad to catch a side....namely do they have fitness/suspension problems, is it better to be playing sides sat clear at the top or desperately scraping at the foot of the table.

In all my years of following STFC, we've tended to be fairly hopeless at staving off relegation when in a scrap...I can think of maybe 5 examples of success, let's hope this is a 6th.

Disagrees with the manager who is turning our season around shock!!

True Reg-in the "invincibile" season,it was other teams' ineptitude rather than our own efforts that kept us up

Would like to add kanyuke was quality

OK, we played very well today against a side walking away with the league. They were always going to get chances, and despite them hitting the bar and the post we were well worth our point, if not all three. As a defensive unit we were solid today and going forward, both Cox and Paynter put a good shift in. The only problem I can see is the number of games we have in a short period of time and fitness will play a key role in the coming fixtures. Luckily though our run-in is where it'll be decided if we stay up or not. And I think we'll have a good run in that period anyway.

Brez - didn't have too much to do. little bit iffy on coming for the odd ball, and his kicking wasn't great as we know but there wasn't much he could do for the goal.

Vincent - Solid game, made a good clearance off the line in the 1st half that was past Brez.

Ifil - Again had a good game, got stuck into both Howard and Fryatt and looked to be alot more assured with Greer next to him. Nothing I can remember that he did wrong.

Greer -Sign him up. Like Wilson said when he bought him in he's captain material. Although Ifil is at the min, he talks to the whole defence (along with Vincent) and organises the unit. This was the first time i've seen him but he seemed to make a lot of difference at the back, his awareness and positioning at the back was very good.

Smith - With Amankwaah ahead of him they dealt with Dyer well, again I can't think of anything he did wrong which in this sort of game against the runaway leaders speaks well for the defence.

Robson-Kanu - Didn't have an amazing game by all means but he did well. If he had a right foot we would have won the game, but its all ifs and buts. Looked useful in the final 20mins when they chased a little more, whilst before that he didn't really get going not to say he didn't play well.

Kanyuka - Battled in the middle and did well, some mislaid passes but thats to be expected from a centre half. Won plenty of balls - something we've missed and personally he played better than Timlin in there too.

Timlin - Like I said i think Kanyuka had a better game in the middle, the game seemed to pass him by a little. Despite that it wasn't that bad a performance, I just think we was a little overrun in there by Oakley - which isn't too surprising. Some decent touches and at the end of the day we got a point so can't complain.

Amankwaah - Doubled up on Dyer well with Smith, and got forward well. Being a strong lad he kept the ball and put himself about a bit. Was a good move by Wilson to put him on the right side. Had a good game, like all of the lads.

Paynter - Won some good headers against Hobbs, didn't get penalised that much for being fouled like he usually does which was a surprise. Didn't have any chances of note but he did well up with Coxy and held the ball up like he usually does.

Coxy - Good goal, could/should have had another either a volley or taking a shot when he tried to square it in the 6 yard box. Like someone said worked his bollocks off for the team and he compared to Fryatt he looked a better player.

All in all a good performance, everyone gave 100% including the fans who were fantastic today. Shame Leicester have fans that don't deserve that stadium as they were poor as fuck, and they perhaps disappointed me more than us not taking all 3 points.

not got much to say

we played well, deserved our point could have easily had all 3.

on another day that could have finished 4-4

everyone played well and put in alot of effort.

our support was really good and I wish it was like that every week.

We've sacrificed a bit of creativity in midfield for a physical presence, and we bloody needed to!

And OK Leicester had a bit more about them in the passing, but we were better in every other department for me. It was a superb effort with Cox my man of the match edging out Smith.

Forget the possession stats, etc. We had the most chances, and we had the clear cut ones too. Shame Kanu-Robson can't shoot really. Doubley so as I had £2 on Cox scoring first and a 2-1 town win (125-1).

Never really stood up for Paynter before be I thought he did OK today. Set Cox goal up well.

It was an excellent performance and shows we don't need to fear anyone. Yet what Reg alludes to is right, we need to start winning. But I am for more confident that the Iffy year though.

Oh and PML @ Leicester fans singing "your support is fucking shit" after 5 minutes, followed by 85 minutes of silence from them.

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aint trawled the thread but a point at leicester is a good one.more than i thought we'd get, so onwards an upwards we go.
looks like wilson will have time to save us from relegation after the maplaps disaster.hopefully fitton will back him financially with signings in the summer(cannot see us hanging on to cox though)

Would agree with that  - Amankwah on the right of midfield was a very shrewd move by Wilson. Felt like we could've snatched it but on reflection that would've been harsh on Leicester.

Very pleased :) .

I was there & would echo everything that has been said.  Whilst queueing for a ticket a Leicester fan gave me one for £12.50 in the main stand - only problem (if problem it was) I was surrounded by the home fans although there was a very attractive mature woman & her babe of a daughter sat in front of me.  As has been remarked on, you Town fans were amazing!  The noise throughout the game was very audible from where I was sitting & you must have lifted the team with that support.
Regarding the formation another masterstroke from Danny W.  When I saw the side I inwardly groaned as I envisaged another backs to the wall display with no attack of note.  How wrong I was.  The inclusion of Kanyuka & Amankawaah disrupted the Leicester midfield, they had no time to pass & often their intended target was under pressure from another red shirted defender.  The result was that they played the ball back to defence as much as forward & frequently it was knocked up in the air making it easy meat for the Town defence. Leicester had very little creativity although Oakley worked hard.  Dyer disappointed although Fryatt looked dangerous.  First half we were well in contention with Cox a constant threat.  First time I've seen Greer & he looked a very good player. Ifill & Vincent looked very competent & composed on the ball. Brezovan made one sensational save late on tipping the ball over the bar whilst diving backwards.  All in all a good point and whilst we were under pressure for long stretches we were very good value for that point. A very pleasing display with a defence that was authoritative & disciplined. Surely if we continue to play with this kind of measured football we'll pull clear?

Enjoyed the game today, and for an away side at the wrong end of the league we should have won this game, we had so many half chances, especially in the first 25 minutes of the second half, on another day we would have scored and a second goal would certainly have seen them off.
Leicesters movement around the penalty area in the first half was brilliant, looked like they were trying to score the perfect Arsenal goal for the most of the time. In the last twenty minutes they started to pump long balls down the middle and I must admit I thought we would hold on.

As far as home support goes they were appalling, just wonder what they must be like if there side were on a losing run. Swindon fans sung there hearts out, but I will say, there was a certain eliminate in our crowd who do us no favours, two guys near me were so pissed they couldn't even sit down let alone sing, what is the point of travelling that far and getting so fucking pissed that you will not even remember todays game.

Match Stats
   Leicester City    Swindon Town
Shots (on Goal)    6(3)    5(4)
Fouls    7    3
Corner Kicks    5    2
Offsides    4    2
Time of Possession    57%    43%
Yellow Cards    0    1
Red Cards    0    0
Saves    2    0

Those stats cant be right, they had two players booked!

Was listening to the game on line in Venice (well it is Valentines day and one good turn deserves another) and could only get the BBC's Leicester coverage.... the leicester comentators (whilst annoyingly enthusiastic) were extremely positive about the Swindon performance...

Well done lads...

I didn't say he had his worst game tho!

I wouldn't say he was crap, just looked tired and didn't chase down balls that he usually would.  Agree he did well holding the ball up and creating the goal for Cox, but did not look a threat and did not hassle the City defence like he has been doing recently!

That is all!

I thought Paynter was excellent, Berniman is right in the fact he didnt really trouble the defense and never looked like scoring but thats probably the best his link up play has been in a while.

He won alot more headers than he usually does to, his role wasnt to trouble the defence his role was to flick it on and let Cox trouble the defence, which worked perfectly

Only negative is that when he's held the ball up or won the flick on he is very slow at getting into the box afterwards

Or you could say lethargic!  Which, i believe was my point in the first place!

Look, I didn't say that Billy had a bad game, I said that he didn't have his best game, and what I meant by that was purely his energy!  He seemed less energetic than he usually is.

I do realise that we were away from home against top of the table, but I was more commenting on his general pace and ability to recover and shut down when required, which didn't seem as good as recent weeks.

Oh, and your jumper was wicked DV, along with your beard!  I thought you had ditched the Jesus look?

 ;D

Jesus is on his way back.

I wouldnt say it was lethargic because he tried to get there he just isnt quick enough. I thought he actually chased alot to be honest with you but he looked fucked towards the end but then so did Cox and a few other players

I'm going to put it down to lack of games.

Game's been summed up quite well by everybody,no dissagreements amongst TEF as far as i can see,which is always good to see. only problems i have about the game are timlins uselessness until the last quarter of an hour,kanu's on and off every 5 minutes but showed he can move the ball around at his feet and leave the defence static, amankwaah on the wing was dangerous,payed off in the end,but at times i felt that he could have played the ball a little bit quicker to release the front two for a better chance, but thats due to a lack of experience on the wing. and the final thing to pick up on is the lack of substitions. yes we were playing as a solid unit, but we used 6 defenders for 90 minutes,and with games being so close together youd have to think that it'l take its toll if they are not given a rest.

on the paynter front,he won 100% more headers today than ive seen him win this season,dropped back well to provide the link for cox,but was a little lethargic to say the least, especially during the end when cox was understandably knackered after running himself to the ground.

GREAT FANS & GREAT POINT!!

Should have won that. Another late goal. When's Wilson going to sort that out?

That meninded me of the late 80's earlly 90's awesome! not had chance to read the rest yet, but no one can slate any of our players, awsome effort. leicester top! us near bottom! rubbish league. Best song "you can stick your cheese and onion..... proud to be red after today.

I believe that song was started by Mr. Don Rogers Shop as well.

It was nice to finally get a Simon Cox song.

I was trying to fit David Ellery into the Celery song but couldnt quite get it to work.

I wish our support, both home and away was that good every week.

that is spot on, what i thought but too pissed to write!

You must have been stood! near the back then?

we were and there was a few of us.

I might have been the most stand out in my blue and black hooped jacket with a beard.

herthab, kinky tom, whits, luci, axs, reeves4england, ibelieveinmrreeves, STFC Gazza, Swindon Chick, Dons Rogers Shop & Samdy Gray were all there.

I'm sure I've missed someone and when they read it they will call me a cunt.

Bugger. maybe we should all wear name badges from now on, as i was there with another tefer, and we didnt meet :(

Been reading leicester threads, been very complimentary, i really liked this one.
All i have to say ontoday is.

We drew but the chaseing pack did poorly bar MK.

Simon Cox just to quick for us

and fair play to swindon fans who i thought were excellent!

We tuned into radio leciester on the way back for their version of our after match stuff I guess.

They had calls and texts and their fans didnt seem like complete retards like ours do (well the majority of those who text in) even Nigel Pearson had some good things to say about us and his Ex-Wednesday team mate Danny Wilson.

Today was fantastic. I can't complain about the performanc of a single player. We defended as a unit, the midfield didn't fall to pieces, and we caused a few problems for the dfence at the top of the league. Cox had a great game, as did Jack Smith. Brezovan didn't put a foot wrong either apart from one (or maybe two) misplaced kicks.

Wilson got the tactics spot on today, and although people have mentioned his lack of substitutions I really don't see how any changes would have been beneficial.

As for the fans, we totally outsung a pathetic set of home supporters and today was one of those days I was proud to be a Town fan. Even spending an hour behind a (presumably) pissed up and incredibly dangerous driver on he A429 coming home hasn't dampened my spirits!!!

Bring on the Millwall!

Ha ha, and so was I!!

Samdy's hat was better than your jumper. Fact.

1032 of us there according to the OS, not a bad showing.

Comment from a poster on the Leicester forum today:

I think the fact we had no time on the ball means Swindon must get credit. I was impressed with them, they worked hard and must have been gutted when we equalised. But then again, we were gutted when they equalised back in November.

Yeah, you missed me out. Cunt.

Would agree with most of what was posted on here. Great game, we played some great stuff, always looked dangerous on the break, could have ended 3-1 to either side, so happy to take the point. And our fans were immense, certainly put the home fans to shame, never heard home fans so quiet when their teams doing so well. Thoroughly enjoyed it and came away feeling one of those games you're proud to be a Town fan.

Oh, and Joe's punditry > DRS/Samdy/me

i was there too but didnt see anyone i know, i recognised stfcgazza from a distance!

I gathered there was a few more of you there but not at the top by the rest of us....

I think our fans were just fantastic yesterday. Very Loud and hardly stopped singing all game. Wonder what Leicester fans thought of us.

The police situation is a shambles. stopped us all at the services told us to be back at the coach for 2, then the old bill decided to escort everyone to the ground when they just sat down to eat very very bizarre. You would think we were Millwall.

The game itself was very good. We stuck in there and took some chance. I believe Greer will be the difference between staying up and going down and we must do all we can to keep him. Him and Vincent together have brought a lot into the team. Ifil looked very confident again as well.

Cox was unlucky not to score a couple of times. I didnt think Leicester were all that great however some great passing between them but we managed to shut them down.

I had a wonder down to where the Old Filbert Street Ground was to see what remains. Photos are below. as you expect not much but still managed to get through the walls there that had been left open to go on what was the pitch and have a look around.

CHANT OF THE DAY

Swindon Lads "Top of the league, you've got no lads".... etc

Leicester fans reply "We're just too scared of you".... etc

PHOTOS FROM THE GAME

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=218549&id=613780110&l=efb02

PHOTOS OF THE OLD FILBERT STREET GROUND

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=218551&id=613780110&l=7778d

i was at the front, had a look round to see if i could see any TEF'ers but to no avail!

I'm heading for full on hat war with Fred.

We were pretty much right at the back.

I was near the front... i didnt see anyone, however i saw the goal which was more than Hannah did :D

You guys were over on the right, well we could see john standing up and trying to get poeple going.

This is going to sound really gay.

But I was so proud comming away from the ground today. Every player worked their socks off, and I would have felt the same even if we had lost. Great work ethic, team spirit, bit of endeavour, we werent scared of them.

But we DEMAND this every game. We pay a lot of money to watch this football and the players have to try their best every time they play in front of paying customers. They have to or they have to go.

Great effort yesterday. Well done lads, you made us proud again.

And Aljofree out, Germaine Greer in please Danny.

Spot on. When you see effort like that like you say you go home proud

....see thats what happens when you dont boo them and actually get behind them ;)

I liked Whits' chant of "Pringles 'til I die".

That was one hell of an opening salvo

I think it was the best performance all season. Every player gave 100 percent.

The Leicester fans near us, were facing us most of the game than the pitch. The two muppet Leicester women were more interested in attention from the Town fans. bints.

Had to pay £10 for parking, as street parking was shite. bastards.

Did win £24 on cox scoring first thou.

There was loads of street parking just 10 minutes from the ground in the college section.

All the streets we went down, had restrictions/clamping in operation. Didn't want to risk it.

We parked about 10 minutes away from the ground, out towards the M69. There wasn't much space about though and this was about midday

but job done, we managed to miss all the football traffic on the way out.

the short cut past that street worked, eventually.

Fuck knows what they were on.

One of them was doing the macarena, very strange.

You'd think they were day trippers dragged to the game by someone else. But one of them had a Leicester shirt on, so I can only assume they were transfixed by us superior away fans.

I noticed them in the 2nd half, only possible explanation is they are care in the community on day release, very weird.

Just managed to get online.....Missus decided to paint the lounge whilst i was at Leicester.....unplugged the phone and wireless link unscrewed the shelves, painted the walls and reattatched the shelves covering the LAN plug thingy.

What a day!
Parked in the Leicester City car park whilst the boys spilled out to get tickets.
whizzed over to the Rugby ground for £3.
Into the Counting house boozer and into the ground.
Liked the ground......no surprise that the fans were cunts, especially 'Pepsi and Shirley' what pair of twats....did they see any of the game?
The lads were brilliant and i suppose a draw was about right but i really thought we would snatch it at the death.
When they hit the post i thought it was going to be our day!
Only Timlin for me looked out of sorts and i was surprised that he wasnt replaced by McNamee at the end so we could ping balls into the corner but i suppose it was so finely balanced for Wilson to call.
Back to Calne just before 8............
Off to Milwall on Tuesday night.....and i cant wait.

Get off my tail!!

Two other things of note for me yesterday, firstly the toilets were awful, no lights and just breezeblocks with small troughs, and i had the worst burger ever, well one bite of it, rank!

Where as the food in the Counting House was good and im convinced I saw Emile Heskey in there to....

Glad you said that. It was definatly him

Was that his 17th century wench serving the food?

I dunno, I ask some Leicester fans the football forums and they said Heskey has two brothers who are the spitting image of him and they still live local and go and watch Leicester, so it might have been one of those.

I didnt think it was him at the just a look a like because it was 2pm on a Saturday but then later I realized that Aston Villa werent playing till to today.

She was a double-bagger if I've ever seen one.

Think she made it into Andy's top ten :D

Yes....i was at the bar to his left when he was getting a drink at about 2-40 ish.......

I said to Harry "Fuck Me its Heskey!!".....

He smiled at me so maybe ..... same eyes but did look slightly different....brother i reckon.

*When drunk he said, when drunk*

:D

I saw those 2 bints as well!  And the Muppet old bloke next to them that seemed to just stand there looking at us dancing!

Thought it was a bit strange when the leicester fans celebrated our goal and then seemed to try to take the piss that we were going mental.  Then when they scored they went mental!  Very strange people come form Leicester that's for sure!

Oh, and I got free parking right next to the ground next to the gas works, on the main road, turn right out of the ground and then first right!  Security and everything, I asked how much and he said it's free mate!  I did wonder if I would see my car again, but it was safe and sound after the match. A lot of Leicester were parking there so maybe it was a locals thing!  That made up for the plastic burger that I then paid £3.20 for!

Some comments from Leicester confined to one post.....





 :D




(tee hee)

Fair play to them for not writing it off as all down to them 'playing badly against a little club they should have beaten' or anythign similar

Thats what I was thinking.  I scoured around and didnt just pick out the good bits but there were no posts critiscising the way we played which surprised me!  Few saying they should be getting more from "small" clubs like us but doesn't change the fact we played well and it was noticeable.  Seen a few quotes theyve pinched from here too surrounding their poor home support! :D  They also appear to agree they are pretty shit too!

I've been impressed with their reflections on the game. I've always hated Leicester since the play off final, but i can put that to bed now.

Strange, he says he saw Jesus in there.

Now you mention it....

Heskeys whole family live around there Leicester.  All look alike.  His old man used to do security on the clubs in town.  Looked just like him but went down less easily.

indeed they're a bit odd.....walking out of the ground, this leicester fan was giving it 1 nil and you fucked it up (in that horrible accent of theirs) and literally 30 secs later, I saw the same bloke giving town fans directions to the train station in his 'tim nice but dim' voice....PMSL

can i add i really enjoyed my chicken balti pie!:)yum

Ban this racist now.

The so-called highlights dont show us in a particularly attacking light!

I don't think Town fans are in any position to take the piss out of other regional accents!!

Because we're only Swindon Town and they're the mighty Leicester City

They showed our goal, that was it. There were definately a few other chances worthy of making the highlights.

Kanu-Robson chances x 2
Cox cross to Paynter (well defended)
Cox had another shot on goal, and that fluffed pass near the end.
etc.
etc.