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My first game was at home to Shrewsbury in April 76, i was 8 and Don Rogers was playing that day (one of the few games he played after he returned).

I really can't remember much about the game itself, i went with my uncle and grandad, my uncle worked for the council as an electrician and dropped us off in his transit near the ground so my grandad could buy his cigarettes on the way, and the smell in the Arkells of cigars/cigarettes is something i remember more than the match, that and the sweets i got given...

Whenever i smell that particular brand my grandad smoked even now it takes me back to those days....

Living away, the next match i got taken to was the 6-0 home win against Lincoln in March 79, i was 11 then and can remember that more clearly.

1968 Swindon 2 Bristol Rovers 2

Had no particular affiliation to either team as I lived smack in the middle in Chippenham at the time.

Can't really remember why I chose Swindon over the Robots - but with what was to come the following year, boy did I make the right choice

Mine was Swindon against Stoke in 1997. Went for my 7th birthday, sat in the town end which was the family bit at that time. I think peter thorne scored and someone got sent off. I spent most of the match mimicking the linesman.

5/3/90  0-0 v Oxford. Can't remember much about the day, only that I went with a friend from work. RIP Paul.

My Dad tells me it was in 1989. Most likely the 89/90 season, I would only have been 3 years old.

No idea who the opponents were. My only memory is of playing with the seats, which is what I did for most of the game so I'm told.

I think we had to leave because it was too loud as well  :toocool:

My first game was Jimmy Allen's testimonial vs Chelsea in 1986.
Think Chelsea won 4-0 but I aint 100% sure? Was 11 years old and went with a mate and his dad. Stood on the shrivvy road at the front on the half way line.

2-0 home defeat to Many City in 2000. Hated Man City ever since.

In May 1986 Town lost 3-2 to Chelsea in a Testimonial, I guess it'll be that one.

Fuck knows why i thought it was 4-0?
First game i saw at the county ground was an England u21 match vs Italy prior to the Chelsea testimonial.
 England lost 1-2 i think?

Until recently I thought my first game was in 76 against Peterborough but it was in 74 when I was 8 against Peterborough so my sister informs me.

I remember very little about it now but apparently our team that day was Barron, Dixon, Trollope, Hubbard, Burrows, Prophett, Moss, McLauglin, Eastoe, Butler, Anderson, Sub Jenkins.

A 1-0 defeat with 9,023 there.

The occassion passed me by apart from recalling some crowd trouble after the game which was pretty much the norm around the mid 70s so I seem to remember.

I *think* mine was this from 1982 ...

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19830101

All I can remember was sitting in the Town End and not being able to see much!!!

1968 Town 1(Mancini og) Orient 0.Ringside seats

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19860704

The one above is my first game apparantly but my first proper memory is beating chelsea 4-0 in the milk cup.Maybe this is the one arriba is also on about

Urgh, if I remember rightly they had The Town End and The Bank that day.

This was my first game I think:

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19870601

Played at the County Ground.

My first ever game was the wembley final against leicester i can remember crying when the fourth goal went in as the noise was tremendous and i was only 4ish haha i remember my dad getting up and leaving for the toilets when it was 3-3 and remember bodin scoring the penalty.

My first Premiership game that i can remember was a home game against wimbledon we lost 4-2 (i was in the stratton bank end)   http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?Tab=Video&MatchID=19940139

I remember Vinnie Jones jumping up on top of the building were they clean the kits. think i was about 5-6.

Been to about 85% of home games ever since and have sat in every stand as ive gotten older.

My first league game was at home to port vale in the old first division Fjortoft scored the first at the town end with a volley, Keith Scott scored the second at the stratton bank end with a header in the last few minutes,

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19950101

Been downhill mostly since then....until now ofcourse best season since i can remember.

Well, that was an eye-opener. It now seems that my first game was against Bristol Rovers but not the 2-2 draw in 1969 but the previous season which was 4-1.

This, of course, probably explains why I chose Swindon over Brizzle!

My first game was at home to Barnsley on 25th February 1995 and was an extremely dull 0-0, not hinting at the rollercoaster it is supporting us :)

I can't remember my first game.

I can remember going to the Scunthorpe game in the FA Cup, and watching Trevor Francis play for Birmingham, booing John Galley at Ashton Gate & watching the Anglo Italian games at the CG (especially the Sampdoria game).

But I had been to games before these, I specifically remember one game when we sat on the benches that used to be in front of the old Shrivvy Road stand but have no clue who it was against.

Fairly certain it was this game...

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19920144

The only thing I remember is that I knew who Peter Shilton was.

Mine was Town vs Newcastle in 92/93. I was 11yo.

My god father took me as his soon was away on a school trip so  I used his season ticket. Was stood in Shrivvy Road - pushed my way to the front.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19930134

I'm fairly certain Calderwood scored with a quite blatant handball, it rightly stood.

As posted here: http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,17827.msg325694.html#msg325694

Oh you had to go and find the thread didn't you Gray?

It was 5 years ago, let's see if anyone has changed their tale...

Can't remember, I was only 7. Would have been very early 70's, could have been an Anglo Italian cup game v Sampdoria, or a Villa game. I have trouble remembering what games I've been to last season(although I'll never forget Port Vale at home), let alone 40 odd years ago

Oh and it's San Miguel time, that might bring the memory back

Jimmy Allen's testimonial, just before Mexico 86. David Speedie was playing for Chelsea (I think), we lost 3-2 (I think). 

Speaking of Darren Beckford, his daughter was on our team when me and Ralph played at wembley the other week. She plays for Man City ladies and is Danny Webber's sister.

Back to the topic anyway, Southend away in 1991. Dad got free tickets from a car salesman when he bought a car

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19920116

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19930143

Oh Shaun Taylor was the swindon scorer I'd seen!

I was at that one, when joachim did his pussy punching

I'm pretty sure mine was against fulham with Rodney marsh and George best? Really not sure but would have been 1971 ish.... 

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19800709

This was my first game and what a game it was , remember it like yesterday stood at the front of the old shrivvy road stand

Moore/Best/Marsh in '77?

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19770605

Blimey thought I was about 4/5 but was obviously older - completely forgotten bobby moore played!

Didn't get into ground till half time due to queues at the turnstiles - luckily we scored all our goals in the second half  :D

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19640127

Remember being on the Shrivvy, at the front. 19,000 there - and the following week we played in front of 41,000 at Sunderland!

Town 1 Palace 1 2/11/76 in front of a very healthy 11k+ crowd (div 3 in old money) Steve Perrin put them ahead, Dave Syrett equalized. It was bollock freezing cold.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19770115

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19720123

This was my first one. My brother took me so we could get tickets for the Arsenal Cup game. I remember there being a load of trouble afterwards which was typical of Pompey in those days.

Bolton, Littlewoods Cup - Third Round Third Replay, Tuesday, November 21, 1989

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19900706

A Ross McLaren winner in extra time. The Shrivvy and Town End seemed to be rocking - though it may have been my lack of live games that made it seem so to me. Sat in the Arkells yellows IIRC.

Home to Chester 17th March 1978 1-1 Kammy scored .

Just found my program from the game it cost 15 p and a quick flick through reveals you could buy a satin scarf for  85p or a woollen one for 1.30

1976,v Mansfield....think we won 1-0.....first away match was at Nothamptons old three sided ground under floodlights on a Friday Evening the same season....that was the days when Cobblers v Swindon was always a juicy affair.

Remember satin scarves, very tacky

21st January 1989
Crystal Palace 2-1 Swindon Town

I started off with an away game at Selhurst Park. I'm dying to see footage of this game because we took the lead in the first half through Steve Foley right in front of all the Palace fans... which for some reason my old man decided to position himself, me and my mate. There's got to be footage of three random people celebrating amongst the home fans when Foley tapped home. In other news, I hate Mark Bright.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19890125

This was also my first game at the County ground although I had seen a couple of away games before this. Stood in the Shrivy road stand on tip toes to see as much as possible. Got to say that was the game that got me totally hooked on supporting the Town. The score certainly helped.

Southend at home, late 1992, we won 3-2. Things I remember:

Maskell got 2
Attendance was 7777
I missed the first Southend goal as I was buying a Mars Bar

Was this the game we shit all over them and the ref gave a penatly for handball against the Fridge despite there being a bloody great ball mark on his shirt as the weather was so shite. Palace always used to flike it against us in those days.

And it was compulsory they be worn around the wrist.

I certainly remember the weather being shit! As for the game I've little recollection other than Stigger's tap in shortly before half-time. Not bad for a 9-year old!

Still got mine, the tassels are a bit tatty from flying the scarf out of the car window up and down the country. It's now kept in my STFC things to keep box  ;D

I found my Membership card from 78/79 the other day.
I think it was 50p for the season, and meant that you paid less to get in the Town End.

The Chelsea 3-2 defeat was definately my first game. I just got the score wrong

West Ham v Swindown 93/94 played out to a boring 0-0 draw.

In 93/94 that was an enthralling well earned point!

If I remember rightly it was our first or second point of the season.

1993/94 Swindon 3-3 Norwich in the premiership
Remember sitting on the terrace bars on the Stratton bank

Barnsley at home in 1998/1999. I was only 5 at the time so that's all I know about it.

Charlie Griffin scored his first goal for Town. As someone who saw him play a good few times for Chippenham, it was a good moment.

Did we win?

Just noticed this was on a Friday night, any idea why that would have been?

My first game was a 1-0 home defeat to Bristol City, early in September 1990.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19910103

I went on my own.  I was 17 and had passed my driving test a couple of weeks before.  Got my Dad to lend me his car keys.  It would have been one of the first trips I made solo, so even the epic journey to the ground from West Swindon was a bit of an adventure.

Even though I'd not been to a game - I didn't know anyone who went regularly -  I'd been 'following' the club for a while, watching out for results in the paper etc.  And that summer, the promotion/financial irregularities/demotion/reinstatement to Division 2 saga (and the fact that it put STFC in the local and national news on a daily basis) got me properly fired up.  By the time I set foot on the Stratton Bank for the first time, I think I had been hooked for a while.

I remember a few things about the game.  The pitch looked very green, and Junior Bent got their winner after a run down one of the wings about 10 minutes from the end.  I bought a match programme that game, as I have every game I've been to since.  And Julian Wilson (ex-BBC horseracing correspondent and Town fan) had a piece in there titled something along the lines of 'Would you let your daughter marry a Bristol City fan?'  Both my brothers, then aged 11 & 7, started coming along with me a month or two later.  We're all still there.

Brentford at home on Boxing Day 2002/2003. 2-1 win!

Great goal aswell. I think we won 2-0.

It was a good finish but we lost 1-3.

Swindon v Leicester Wembley 1993.  Back in the day when we could win at Wembley.  Fantastic day and great atmosphere.

My first game was Town v Scunthorpe in the FA Cup in 1969, we won 4-0 or 4-1, :D but i do know it was on Match of the day that night  :D

My first game I can actively remember going to was against Atalanta in the Anglo Italian Cup in 94/95, we lost 2-0. I may have been when I was younger but can't remember. I don't recall too much about the game really, but did go to a few games in the league cup run that season including the semi final at home to Bolton. My first away game was WBA away in 96/97, we won 2-1 and I scored the winner (look it up for those who know me!). I thought I was quite lucky because we won the first 3 away games i went to, but now I know that was just a fluke!

My first was Hull City at home in 1979... and you can read all about it here -

http://thewashbag.com/2012/04/04/the-start-of-my-obsession-swindon-vs-hull-city-06-10-1979/

Late 80's ('88 or '89) away against West Ham in the FA Cup replay. I had moved to Swindon the year before and only went to the game as my mate was a Hammer. Didn't go again until the following season, when Ossie was appointed and from then on (Apart from an enforced absence in the late 90's and early noughties) I've been pretty much a regular.

My mate has a lot to answer for...

I remember that game well.  I had a Norwich supporting friend along from university in our section of the Stratton Bank.  Got quite heated between our fans and theirs towards the end.  Good game.

Don't remember, for some reason though I have Luton in mind .

I was stood in the old Shrivvy road stand with a school friend not far from the Town End, which was then given to away supporters. That's about all I can recall.

A dazzling home game against ipswich at home in the 98/99 season. Fuck knows why i carried on watching swindon after that!

Edit: http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19990139 Was worse than i remember! thought we only lost 5-0

Would have been 93 or 94 then, we only gave the TE to away fans for 1 season when I was stewarding the TE but can't remeber what year it was TBH.

Can't have been JJ. I was there for the full 92/93 season.

Might have been 91/92

Wigan at home in the 87 playoffs for me. 0-0, dont remember much except town fans walking down queens drive in their droves. Stood on Stratton bank with my dad. Would have been 7. First away game was vale in 89. I think we lost 2-1.

Unlikely to have been Luton then mate as we didnt play them at home between 74 and 93.

We only gave the TE over to away fans the year the Intel stand was being built which was in 94-95.

My first game that i remember going to was against Rochdale at home in october 85. It was a 4-0 win. I had been to other games before that but i don't really remember them that well. I remember this one as my brother took me to get me out of the house so my mum & dad could go out for their anniversary. By about February 86 i was going to every home game.

I didn't go to my first game until I was 12, which was Boston at home, in the last L2 promotion year.

I vaugley remember it being a draw. Maybe. Or we might have won. But i'm fairly certain we didn't lose.

I am led to believe that my first game was the FA Cup tie against Carlisle in 1984, though I have no recollection of it whatsoever... I also went to the Blackburn game in the next round, and up until recently I thought I had a clear memory of Blackburn's winning goal... that was until I saw the highlights from a game in the early 90's against Blackburn and I realised that was the game I had been remembering!!

First real memories I have are being embarrassed at losing to Dagenham the following season, and beating Sheffield Wednesday - we used to sit up in the old wooden seats on the Shrivenham Road -remember being scared shitless walking up the rickety steps to get in, and an old couple in front of me offering me some of their soup from a flask at half time. I also vaguely remember a friendly against Man Utd, standing on the centre circle after we won promotion against Chester, and the Jimmy Allan testimonial.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19840604

I'm not around this week but I've got a lot of the games mentioned on video... will post them up when I can.

I remember my sons first game it was in April 1999, a 2-0 home win over Grimsby.

He had just had his 3rd birthday, the best thing is that he is now 16 & is still coming to games with us :)

My parents weren't interested in football and I was ten when the local garage owner from my village near Newbury took me in 1966 (pre world cup) to a Division Three home game v Southend Utd.

Although I had been to the odd game before with my grandfather at Tottenham I never identified myself with them and I remember the thrill of my first glimpse of the County Ground turf after climbing the steps of the rickety, corrugated Southside Stand.

The Don scored two early goals in a 4-0 home win and my footballing hero and football club have never changed since.
  
England won the World Cup that summer and Town humbled Hurst, Moore and Peters in the FA Cup the very next season and won the League Cup not so long after.

All very easy for a gloryhunter like me till that fat slob Dave MacK*** (whom I had admired at Tottenham) put his nose in here getting rid of Harland and Rogers...but that, like countless others, is another story

1979:
Swindon 0 Reading 0

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19800102 (http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19800102)

What a season......pity it died towards the end. After being knocked out of both cups the Town slumped and the slide continued into the next couple of seasons - ending in relegation to Division 4 for (I think) the first time ever. Things weren't to pick up again until the arrival of Lou.

This beauty.  Hooked every since.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19920115

I seem to remember the fireworks were better than the game...although maybe we went top for a night?

Swindon 3 Bury 1 - October 1997
Sat in the Town End (or Rover Family Stand as it was then :D) Soaking wet day.

My life has been ruined irreparably since, thanks dad.
Swindon 'til I die

Swindon vs Southend October 1974

2 nil Swindon Eastoe 2 - legend

Swindon 1 Cheltenham 3.   2007, cold wet tuesday night, LDV Vans trophy.

Fuck knows why I came back

Glad to have done so now though.    :D

I'm pretty sure I've sat in the intel-don rogers when away fans were in the town end.

Pompey and Sunderland (the year they won the league) at least spring to mind.

1998–99?

At the start of 90-91 they gave the town end to the away supporters, i can't remember for how long but one which sticks in my mind is September 1990 when Middlesborough had the Town End. That was after they had made it seated in the summer, not sure what the thinking on that was at the time....

Your website is outstanding.  A fantastic resource for all Town fans.  Whoever you are, thanks.

I could not agree more.

Me too.  I think most clubs would be pleased to have this resource.

I remember that game, was a real possibility that could have been our last ever game, dark days...makes the success last season all the better!

Yep

Good work that man

Jan 82 against Exeter watched from Shrivvy Road

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19820122

Port Vale at home 1985/86. Bloody 0-0 draw!

Wasnt my first game but first game i drove to as out-of-towner fresh from ditching the "L" plates was around 1999 when Ipswich turned us over 6-0. 

Got back to the car and it didnt start, had to wait for an hour for recovery service.

Brutal day   

I thought they knocked the shrivv road stand down and built the intel stand in the preseason between the prem season and the following season?

Spot on......great site....i remember Bristol City having the Town End when the Gimpy Junior Bent grabbed there winner...at the Town End >:( >:(

30th Nov 1974 Swindon 4 Colchester 1, Dave Moss with Hat Trick, and the legend Peter Eastoe got the other, stood on the corner of the Stratton Bank/Shrivy Rd

I know my dad took me to see us play Notts County, his team, in the late '50s so by looking at this wonderful site I can see it had to be October 4th 1958. 3 - 1 win, just before Bert's babes came in en masse. I was 7 and remember nowt about it.

I see John Sheridan played for County - a couple of seasons later he broke Terry Woollen's leg and was sent off, effectively ending Terry's career.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19590113

Don't worry I had the same problem. Another thing that I now recall, is my early introduction to football violence. Strange as it may seem now a days, two blokes having a scrap in the Arkells

during th 97/98 season they moved the family section from the Town End to where the away supporters are now. And away supporters had the Town End for a few games.

I remember the first game the family section was in the away section of the arkells stand...because we had a perfect view of George Ndahs backwards scissor kick goal v Sheffield United. Same game Scott  Leitch nearly scored a half volley from near the halfway line

My first game was a pre season friendly at Calne Town 92/93 time.

My first official game was against Blackpool 1995 1-1.

I share with Kerry Red - home to Bristol Rovers in 68, 2-2,  was my first - I wasn't that interested in football to be honest, but I was away at boarding school, where everyone supported either Pompey or Plymouth (Navy connections...) so had to show an interest.  Never looked back, especially with 69 to come....can still remember the total and absolute joy and excitement when Town beat Burnley.....

One of the few (only?) times I've been in tears at a football match. Firstly having the visit to Wembley snatched away with that last minute equaliser from Burnley, then when the final whistle went and the realisation that we'd made it.

In a way my favourite game ever, with that anticipation of what was to come.

Swindon 1-2 Luton November 1994 in the 'new' Intel Stand!

Ayr United 2 Swindon 1 02/08/76. Lived in Ayrshire and so Dad took me along with family visiting from the West Country.

Dad used to take me to all Ayr United home games as he gave a lift to their right back's Dad who lived down the road. All that is apart from the Old Firm as I was too young (8) to see all that entailed.

Swindon 3, Oxford 0. 1989/90

Mine too

19th March 1994, Man U at home.  12 years old - had been listening to radio commentary and wanting to go all season and my mum finally relented!  Was on Stratton Bank and it was brilliant, well and truly bitten by the bug - managed to get to all the remaining home games that season, followed by season tickets in subsequent years.
A couple of memorable incidents, including the Cantona/John Moncur stamp and Mark Hughes running into a fist emerging from the Shrivvy Road stand... brilliant.   8)

Swindon 3 Hull City 1 Jan 1966.
Sat in the top tier of the Shrivy Road stand. 16,000 crowd.
Fantastic stuff.

Watching the town fans holding up the red A4 sheets of paper (mocking the mancs previous games discipline). :)

Swindon 1 - 0 Bradford on Nov 08 1997, sat(stood) with me dad in the town end 12 years of age, I couldnt really see the goal but loved it all just the same.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19980117

My Grandad took me to Swindon v Oldham - turned out to be a 0-0 draw - what an introduction !  Apparently it was on 27/4/1968

Next game after that was the following season v Bradford City in the League Cup where we were two down early on, and won 4-3 (I think)

Two things I remember about this game.

1. Good finish by Steve Cowe.
2. Darren Moore went down "injured" in apparent agony but was able to get up and miraculously sprint back to defend. The crowd duly giving him stick.

small world DMR!

Glory hunter that I am my first game was this one

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19900402

So my second game was at wembley

Had me hooked and despite the dodgy dealing relegation there was no way I was turning my back. 

Did we really only get a crowd of 12,400 odd that day?!  Crowds really have gone up, generally, in recent years, haven't they?

Fairly sure my first game was in 79/80, I think against Mansfield or possibly Exeter. I always thought that it finished 4-3, but looking at that seasons results it must have been this one. Around the time of my birthday so I suspect it was my birthday treat

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19800135

Wilf Shergold currently winning the Old Duffer award (first game in 1958).  Can anyone top this?

No word yet from Reg, I see.

Edit: On re-reading, that sounds a little rude.  Apologies.  I probably meant 'Senior Supporter award'.

Remember we weren't too happy at not selling out vs Charlton the other year. Looking at that attendance it doesn't seem quite so bad now.

Saturday 29th March 1969

Swindon Town vs Watford.

Attendance 28,898.

The match was played on a saturday evening and was effectively a Championship decider,between the two top teams.

All i remember about the game was the size of the crowd,the winning goal and a Watford fan towering over me,i was 
a small and young boy,lording it and shouting,"Champions,Champions".


http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19690137


The next game i ever went to, was the following season when we beat Charlton 5-0 and it was on MOTD and i was
in the Town End for the first time.

Swindon vs Bournemouth Saturday April 13th 1996

Rover Family stand

10,508

2-2 Draw, Horlock and Jones with two goals each.

Swindon vs. Ipswich FA Cup 3rd Round 1994

I could have sworn Keith Scott scored until I looked at http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19940601  Thinking back he obviously would have been cup-tied.  Then Jan Aage did the Kazachok in the replay and the rest was history.

Reg has long forgotten the first game he went to...though a dickie bird tells me Fleming was still in the youth team :D

I can't remember my first home game, but my first away was the 2-0 win at Pompey, 2 Jan 1989, with goals from Geddis and Shearer.

I was hooked on going away after that. My second away game was ... Pompey, five days later for the 1-1 FA Cup tie.

Think mine was a 3 - 0 or 3 - 1 win over barnsley with Ty Gooden scoring a wondergoal :)

My first game watching Town was against Portsmouth and seeing Jimmy Dickinson play in 1961 (I think) my father thought it was time for me to show my true colours at the age of four...!!!!   
Can't remember much about any games prior to the Coventry game 1964 when there was so much snow on the ground..
Sad but true can only remember the plastic cup of Bovril and train ride from Didcot.  :)
 

My first game was Swindon v Crewe at home. 1995 i think. Can't remember a great deal but i do remember my dad saying about Neil Lennon being a decent player and to watch out for him in the future.

Sheffield Wednesday in the cup in 1984.

1-0 win, massive cup upset and I was in the bog when they scored!

Sutton FA Cup early 80's.

Edit : 15th Dec 1981. I was 8. Apart from pre season friendlies next game was Sunderland in 1984.

It was a decent game, both doing well in the league (may have even been first vs. second).

The goalkeeper got a good hand on Finney's penalty, it trickled over the line without hitting the net. That final point may just be my memory getting carried away.

The first game I can really remember was a 1-0 win over Wolves in Setember 1990, the away fans were given the town end after seats were put in that preseason, we stood in the wedge part of the bank where the away fans would stand in the future, and due to the number of Wolves fans we were moved to the north stand.After that game I think it went back to being home fans only.
 I also seem to remember Calderwood doing his knee in and being out until March, but my memory os not that good

1968-69. Swindon 2 Bristol Rovers 2.
Think it was shortly after the league cup win and on the run to promotion.
My dad used to go to all the home games in those days standing on Stratton Bank but bought seats near touchline on north side - was pre new north stand and my memory was we sat on wooden benches but could be wrong!
Dad stopped going during fuel crisis which coincided with us being shit 1974? but got me hooked for life.

I think you're the third to list that game. Good that you've kept the faith.

Beleive it or not..... swindon 8.. Bury 0

About 1978 i think.

Danny Wilson played in that game for Bury. I climbed the clock on the Bank when the 6th went in and felt really pleased with myself until I was told to get down by the " Adults "  :)

Hell of a great week that was. Tuesday drew 1-1 at Arsenal (Billy Tucker header) then saw the Tom Robinson Band in a pub in Crouch End for free, then the 8-0...clearly my mind plays tricks nowadays, but I recall Bury were so shocked near the end they were passing back to the keeper trying to to waste time.

Tuesday night was the epic 4-3 win in the replay v Arsenal.

was at the Bury game too missed the first half  hour and  couple of goals queueing up for Arsenal Tickets.

my first ever Town game was home to Aldershot way back in the 80s (i think) and i'm sure we won 4-0.  Went with my dad and grandad who was down from Liverpool and my lasting memory was of two fans fighting in the away end when it was the corner of the SB and Shrivvy Road, they were rolling up and down the concrete steps for what seemed ages before any stewards or police intervened!

The first game I remember going to was in Anglo-Italian Cup against Atalanta, I was sat in the Intel (Don Rogers stand) with my old man. but I did go to others when we still had the old shrivvy road stand but I was to young to remember any of the teams we played

Haha, I recently found and binned the programme from that match. Wasn't it a pre season game?  ???

I went to this game and can't remember much about it. Didn't we start off well and then got played off the park?

Can anyone remember the pre-season game against Sporting Lisbon? We lost 6-0!

Yep.  I think we also played Real Sociedad around the same time.

Danny Wilson played for Bury that day....Mayes and Rowlands were brilliant up front and it could have been 12.

we were all singing about hollins getting the sack

draw with hereford i think about 82/83

In the preseason before 91-92 I seem to remember, I think we lost 2-1, we  all thought we would see John Aldridge, but he signed for Tranmere just before, so still saw him just not in that game

Back today, so will start uploading the games that I have onto YouTube.

Thanks to all for their comments about the site a few pages back - much appreciated, glad you enjoy it.

If I recall that was 1-0 to Swindon and was on Match of the Day.

I also went to that match and my first Swindon game was at home vs Sheffield Wednesday 75/76 season and we won 2-1 Anderson and Eastoe the scorers.

Possibly the shortest MotD feature in history...the match was so dire, the highlights consisted of The Prof heading in in the 89th minute.

Your first game, Reg?

That was one of my favourite games for Swindon, it was chucking it down all game with puddles all over the pitch and we had 3 shots cleared off the line that game when the ball (well past the keeper) stopped in the mud and puddles on the goal line.

Lincoln were awful that day with Peter Grotier the bearded and hugely plump keeper for Lincoln one of the worst I have ever seen at the CG.

Could easily have ended 10-0 or 11-0 that day, I don't think Lincoln crossed into our half for pretty much the whole game and the only player of any not playing for them was Glenn Cockerill who was later to sign for us.

Recall is a bit hazy....the first game I can clearly remember, was a reserve fixture in 62, v Birmingham. For some reason, probably a postponement, quite a few of the first team were fielded, including the very young Don Rogers. Birmingham were top flight opposition, but we mullered them 4-2....Rogers showing evidence of what was to come. The crowd 5,494.

One of the pleasures for a young lad back then, was that you could stand behind the Bank goal for one half and the TE goal for the other half.

This is your Golden Jubilee Reg.  :banana: :dance: :yay:

6-2 defeat at Palace where don rogers ripped us to shreds. Ist home game was Eastoes debut where he scored twice, I think it was 2-2 v carlisle.

I think that was the previous season when we lost 4-2. Looking at this great results website it sez the Don was a sub in the 6-2 defeat....I lived a bus ride away from Palace at the time and saw both games but admit I thought Don played in both. This wasn't a bad Town team, finished 4th, ahead of Palace.

My contribution:

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19910119

Blackburn at home, December 1990.  I was five, I remember nothing except my Dad shouting at some bloke called "ref". 

Blackpool home in front of about 5000 of which there was about 40 blackpool fans 0-0 in 05/06

Oxford at the start of last season.

Beat, was in the DR and next to a Hibee. I've been to better games.

He might post on here the hibee, cant be many of them in swindon

I'm guessing Swindon are you second team then and you support some god awful Scottish hoofball team?

First game of the 92/93 season and that goal from Hoddle...

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19930101

Relentless.  ::)

Swindon are my local team. So while I'm here, I get involved.

Motherwell are my 'hometown' team, as I grew up in Lanarkshire.

 :)

Swindon 0-4 Man Utd XI

Pre season friendly, possibly Lou Macari's first game?

1st proper game Swindon 1-0 Stockport, Div 4 October 1985.

Nice sunny day that was. Stood on the bank for the game.

Chippenham away was Macaris first ever game, Chippenham made him very welcome with banners all round the ground welcoming him and we arrived in a mini bus :D the Man U game (which finished 4-1) was a good one they had a fair few stars playing IIRC such as Blackmore, Hogg and Whiteside and Mark Dempsey scored for them who later that season came to us on loan.

my first town game will be eaither crawley or Franchise in august

Not the brighton cup one?

Sounds like a part timer to me  :)

I think it was probably Fulham in FA Cup 1975, we won 5-0

Ladies and gentlemen,

swindon-town-fc.co.uk have kindly uploaded some of your first games on to the website.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MediaPlayerSelect.asp

Note Site Admin/Mod People: Can this thread be stickied?

Good to see it again!

Swindon v West Ham 28th Jan 1975 in one of the Cups. 27,000 crowd but lost 1-2. I was only 12 at the time and the first thing I witnessed was some Laaaaandan Geezer wearing platform shoes the size of my head, scarf on each wrist and stripey socks come head first crashing over the barrier of the terracing under the south stand with a couple of coppers in tow. Helmets everywhere.
I was hooked for life.
 

Looked it up on Swindon - Town - Fc and there is TV footage of the game. 30/08/69 v Charlton 5-0....I just couldn`t believe it. 20,000 crowd and Don Rogers was amazing.....and that was that been in me ever since. Never lived in Swindon but where ever I have lived I have always seen them play. Worth watching the highlights again and again....tears to my eye

Probably as one of the older TEF readers -my first game was on 11th February 1956 versus Coventry City, drew 1-1! Sat on the benches in front of the very old Shrivvy Road stand (pre the Aldershot tattoo one!) with Michael "Tubby" Rowe as it was his birthday. Was hooked from then on in and saw some absolute dire rubbish in the 50's until Bert Head came along and got us up and running in the early 60's. Got to say I have probably gone through every emotion there is where the Town are concerned over the years, but when anyone asks me who I support my reply is Swindon Town and England in that order!
 :nod:

Bottom of Division 3 (South) in your first season. The only way was up, down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up after that!

I look forward to you and reg smeeton reminiscing about the old days ;)

First game was home against Arsenal December 27 1993, but we missed most of the first half.

There is a bit of a story behind the first match; so here it is:

I had just turned 18 and my parents allowed me to travel abroad alone for the first time.  I travelled with 3 childhood friends (2 of them are Bristol City supporters), an other BCFC supporter and Norwayred who ran the Scandinavian supporter's club at that time and who I never had met before.

We flew to London on boxing day and spent the first night there.  The tickets for the match should have been arranged by a Norwegian football travel agency and should be at the hotel in Bristol (democracy sucks and we lost 2-4 on the voting Swindon/Bristol).  We overslept ourself for the morning train and the next one was cancelled.  The tickets weren't at the hotel and there was delays on the train from Bristol to Swindon.  We arrived in Swindon 20 min into the game and ran to the ground without any tickets.  Norwayred had been in contact with the club secretary before we left Norway, so we asked somebody at the ground for him in Norwenglish.  After what felt like ages, he came out and guided us to the seats where the reserves and other staff are sitting.

I should also mention that none tickets arrived for the next matches, but the club allowed us to sit at the same place for the Chelsea match, where we presented the 'Scandinavian supporter's player of the year' award to Paul Bodin some minutes before the kick-off and the club got us tickets for the game away against Coventry and we rode the buses for free.  After the match, we arried in Swindon too late for the last train back to Bristol, but the wonderful lady who was our guide in the bus, arranged a free ride for us by one of her friends.

Got to love a club that does all this for foreign supporters!

April 15th 1989
Town 1-1 Watford
with my Dad and my Grandad in the disabled bit in front of the North stand. Think I spent most of the time hoping the ball would go out near us so I could get a touch!

You're not going to forget that date in a hurray

Against Brian Clough's Notts Forest in the FA Cup, 73 or 74, took a few thousand there but got stuffed 4-1 !

I was there and Kamara missed a sitter early doors...and Moss was superb that day.

The Trent End was loud that day.

pre-segregation days.

Stood on the terraces with a few Town fans fairly early when about half a dozen Forest fans decided the bumpkins were easy pickins.

Grand flailing of arms and legs and they fucked off back in the Trent End.

Remember Cough being very complimentary about our performance and our fans....remember that day well.

I was there that game, one of my first away games as a 12 year old...and it was actually as late as 1978, IIRC Swindon took several thousand to the City Ground that day.

Great work Costa

Also was at that game,stood on the side terrace.
Iirc there was segregation - albeit a picket fence between us and the Trent end . . wasnt their mob known as the "mascots" back then?
For the record ,first game was v Watford,beat us 1-0 69 ish.

Around that time probably more like the Trent end boot boys or the Executive crew.

i miss Costanza

I believe our only defeat at home that season...Watford went on to pip us to the title on goal average.

Sounded like they were shouting"The mascots . . united . . we will never be divided".
All i can remember the Trent end singing was thier own version of "Mull o kintyre" :zzz:

They still sing it.

 Seriously? . . "Mist rolling in from the Trent" and all that old bollocks.
Wings version was kin one of the songs ever imo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDdCR_NsCBo

Two years agoo this link but they still sing it every match at some point.

They also sing " you've lost that loving feeling" when they have scored,or when they are winning. Have heard a few teams sing " can't help falling in love " as well as us but can't remember who ?

Port Vale sing,cant help falling in love on a regular basis.

Hello all.... Long time lurker, first time poster...

First Town game I went to see was this one.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19970140

I was living in Norfolk at the time, so knew a bit about the Norwich team, and before the game told my mate that we'd have to watch out for Darren Eadie and that he was a bit handy. He was pretty much the difference between the sides that day, creating one and scoring two.

Not a good start to my Town watching.

That was a dire end to that season.  The Norwich game seems to be the first of a run of 5 in which Phil King displaced Drysdale from the side.  During that run, we conceded 14 and scored 1; with Drysdale returning for the last few games.  Phil eventually moved on in 1999, but never played for us again.

As far as I remember, for us to finish as champions on goal average, Watford needed to lose their last game 0-3 and we needed to win 3-0. They duly did their bit but we won just 2-0, with Rogers heading (YES HEADING) just over the bar which would have made it 3-0. My memory tells me I was stood behind the Town End goal.

Just checked the league table for that year, seems my memory had a senior moment. 0-5 and 5-0 would have done it. I stand by the Rogers header though, and that there were 29,000 in the ground for that Watford match.

At least we stayed in the league that season.

The next time I saw them play Norwich, we'd already been relegated, although we won and Hay scored 2

Can't remember whether it was my first, but the first game I can properly remember was 6-0 vs Stoke at the CG. Can remember the Stoke fans doing the conga on the Bank in the pissing rain! Must have been 1989.

Also Blackburn the same season, when it was so foggy you couldn't see the other side of the pitch from the North Stand.

The scum 4-2 away also sticks out, but that might have been the season after.

Barnsley at home in either 97 or 98. We won.

Plymouth at home, New Years Day 1991. 1-1 draw with Steve Foley equalising in injury time.

Newbie on here!

My first game was January 28 1998 v Stoke City. Mark Robinson with a screamer if my memory serves me right!

H vs. Arsenal 0-5 27th of Dec 1993

Missing the first half hour/the first half because a delay at the train station in Bristol. We went to the front office and presented us self as we had been in touch with the club about visiting from Norway.

Don't remember if it was Jon Pollard or another bloke who guided us through the player tunnel and we got to sit above the bench in the section where the injured player and youth team were seated.

Great memories!

Ops, I had to log users...

Hereford at home  November 1985 , Charlie Henry scored in a 1-0 win and instantly became my hero.

I think that was in about the 89th minute if I remember correctly.

Swindon 2 Brizzle Rovers 2 towards the end of the promotion season in 1969.
If my memory is correct we sat on wooden benchesnear the touchline on the north side before the Arkells (aka north stand) was built

I think that season we scored more than half our goals in the last 10 minutes of games due to our superior fitness.

Yeah, that must have been the 102 point season. We seemed to grind out a load of 2-1 wins that season (feels like about 20 but if I look it up it will probably be 3). As you say we just wore teams down.

Edit: It was only 6. We did have 8 1-0's as well though. 14 one goal victories - that looks like a pretty high number to me :hmmm:

It does feel like that! having checked we won 17 games by a single goal and we won 7 games 2-1(8 if you count cup games), one game I remember well was away at Rochdale when we were 1-0 down till the last 10 mins then we scored 2 goals in quick succession to win 2-1. Looking back though it seems like most of the season was like that, happy days :)

The 'Milk Cup' run..

Sunderland 3-2
Sheffield Wednesday 1-0

Still two of my greatest games of all time from that season.

The sad thing about those games is that I don't think there is any footage of them whatsoever because there was a complete TV blackout that season. Mind boggling to think of that these days.

I never went to Sunderland but the Sheff Weds game was brilliant and we should have won by more against the team from a higher league.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ofua-tgi86c#!

Obviously not the goal but the following news it made :)

Oh and the massive away following to Ipswich in the next round was brilliant even if the result wasn't!

I didn't go to the Ipswich game for reasons I've long since forgotten but I remember being told by mates who went how amazing the atmosphere was.

I can't remember off the top of my head how many we took on a chilly Tuesday evening but it must have been almost half the 12,000 crowd.

I remember we took 60+ coaches to the game and it was the best atmosphere at any Swindon away game I have ever been to in nearly 40 years.

Sheffield United home 1987

two nil, two goals from Jimmy Quinn I think - the second was a free kick from inside the penalty box after the keeper held it for more than five seconds! the entire Sheff utd team lined up on the goal line and Quinn blasted it into the net. Got me hooked for life the bastard!

I believe this was the first home game back in the old second division after the 'rise and rise' as I remember signs on the pitch beforehand saying welcome back to div 2!

Ahhh the glory years  :beers:

does sneaking in 5 mins before the end when they used to open the gates count???  ;)
if not, probably Shrewesbury in the FA cup mid 70's when the BBC vans were all parked outside the Shrivvy road for the week... ;D

League Cup Final 1969 was my first game - honestly

Got taken along in full kit - including football boots - obviously, I wasn't very old

i was at that game, we took there pub, remember town fans dancing on the pool table, we had half of one end with netting seperating us, 3000 at best i think, mansfeild away 0.0 and we won promotion was superb

I was in that very pub

a bloke on the door asked where you from lads, we said swindon, he winked and said come on in
quality days

Ditto and how strange? The second game I watched was against Gibraltar....8-0. Must of felt for them as I moved there for 18 yrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EzN4AbpxZLo
this was a tasty one, remember rocks being thrown over from the carpark behind us

Was at that one. I remember the bloody maasive ethnic minorities outside than the rocks.

Was also at Eastville and remember the rock throwing , haven't seen that footage  :) Great memories. They were picking off smaller groups of Swindon coming away from the ground, we bumped into some Rovers supporters we knew and walked up the road with them, probably stopped us from getting a kicking to be honest.

Remember it well.

my first game was 1990 i think, league cup against southampton, 2-2 at home and lost 4-2 away

Heard the presenter mention Rovers manager Terry cooper at the end of that clip, our new assistants dad  :) Is Terry best know for playing at Ipswich Town ?

Leeds i reckon....managed Brum for a while also.

was that the game where gittens tried to let the ball go for a goal kick, instead he fucked it and they got a corner & scored :hmmm: if so i was there, if i recall it was called of prior due to a waterlgged pitch

A young Shearer crossed for old boy Rideout to equalise........then Saints scored two more in extra time...Alan Mac was brilliant and probably the reason the Saints paid a million for him a few months later.

It would have been a million if they didn't drop him after he played 24 games!

I remember Shilton running out expecting applause and getting a chorus of "Maradonna"

I was a bit torn on that one, 'cos I hated the hand-balling little cunt, but I put my petty issues aside and did my bit to wind up the opposition, for the benefit of STFC

do you remember the saints strange song, out of nowhere the chant of "you can beat this shit"

Yep...remember that now,there loss was Pompey's gain,he had a great career for them.

No Woolster cant remember that chanting but i vividly remember the Gittens moment....i remember it was well juicy in the local streets before and after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mCYwspgyZFQ

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19810133

Having looked at everyone elses start dates I noticed few were from this time.  Looking at the seasons either side and the attendances, I can see there were few reasons to take young kids and try and get them hooked at this time.

Ian Miller and Brian (Spit the dog) Williams on the wings

What a fucking side that was  !!!

It's partly what made it all seem so bad not long after when we collapsed - before Lou led us back up

1st town game 68/69 brighton1 swindon 3

My 1st match was a 1-0 loss at home to Norwich in '71. Little did I know that the Town could make or break so many Saturday nights since!

Interestingly, what were TEF members first away games?

I remember the first three I went to we won!

WBA away 96/97 won 2-1. Alison and Smith scored.
Followed that ip the following season with Chris Hay scoring the winner at Elm Park to win 1-0 v Reading and then beat Stoke 2-1 in the first league game at the Britannia. Alison and Hay scored two in a couple of minutes late on.

It all went down hill after that!

My first away game was at Wycombe in 02/03 when we went 1-0 up, 2-1 down and won 3-2 after Parkin scored a late late late winner. I remember being shocked at just how different the atmosphere was compared to a home game.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20030117

My first away game was Barnet away in 06/07 ish.

It was a cold Tuesday night, we lost 1-0 in a dreadful match.

Vale away in 89.  I think we lost 1-2

That was the Aaron Brown night wasn't it?

My first was Torquay in 2005, 2-2 draw. Parkin Brace. Couldn't see a lot because of the bastard sun. Sat behind swindon town dave on the coach, who showed us his tats.

Indeed it was.

Also, there were more Town fans than Barnet fans that day.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20070133

I didn't go to a Town away game until the Bristol City 0-0 in 1996. Championship winning season, early Scott Leitch game.

My first non-Swindon awayday was with my step-dad in 1991, Hibernian 2-4 Aberdeen. That was much more interesting.

Luton away in the FA Cup in the 79-80 season, we won 2-0, Rowland and Williams scoring....

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19800604

My first away match was memorable for so many reasons. It was a 4th Round League cup tie at Wimbledon in the 79-80 season which we won 2-1 with a very late winner bundled home by Chic Bates I think. The experience was also enhanced by being a 14 year old kid with his mates doing a first trip to London without adult supervision (a fine apprenticeship for the next 2 unsupervised trips to Arsenal & Wolves during the rest of that cup run). It was also my first memory of being lifted off my feet in a crowd crush trying to leave the ground. About 2500 people trying to funnel through a narrow exit onto the street with police outside slowing down the crowd dispersal hence the crush. 

I remember going on the Football Special to that one...proper trip. The thing set off, in what seeemed completely the wrong direction, certainly picked up in Chippenham, and may even have got as far west as Bath before looping back round to Westbury, Warminster and into the spider's web of suburban London commuter lines via Basingstoke and Woking.

Also remember loads of spotty 14 yeard olds puking up left right and centre having had a shandy or 2 too many.

My first away game was Crystal Palace or Charlton in 99/00, whichever came first.

99 came first...

1899 for you.

I can't really remember much about my first game...after speaking to my Dad though it appears it was against Hull in 1987, 0-0

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Results.asp?Season=1987-1988

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Didn't know Fola looked like John Barnes..

Also remember loads of spotty 14 yeard olds puking up left right and centre having had a shandy or 2 too many.
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Yeah, sorry about that but in my defence I was spot free! Rite of passage and all that  :pint:

First away game was a 3-0 defeat to Ipswich in 98 or 99.  Pretty forgettable stuff, random memorable fact is the man mountain James Williams made his first start I believe.

Ipswich town 1 swindon town 2    March 1989 my first away game. Got there late and had to go through their end to be let through into the away terrace.

First away game for me was Forest away in the FA cup in 78, massive Town following and a poor 4-1 defeat to a Cloughie team in the middle of a brilliant run of 42 undefeated in the league at the time, a Forest team that won the League that year.

The Forest team was     
Shilton, Anderson, Barrett, McGovern, Needham, Burns, O'Neill, Gemmill, Withe, Woodcock, Robertson.

We had no chance TBH but a great day out none the less.

West Ham in 1990..

My first game was a 2-1 win against port vale back in October 1999 I sat in the arkells. Still remember coming out into the stand for the first time and seeing that lush green pitch. It was a lovely day and was instantly hooked!

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19790604
This was my first away game- nearly 11k at Aldershot. We must have had 3-4,000 of them. It was rammed.

I can't remember my first away game  :doh:

It could have been City away in Jan 91, we won 4-0.

Swindon 0-1 Watford March 1969

Mine was the first game of the 94/95 season (the year after we got relegated from the Prem). Port Vale at home, a 2-0 win with goals from Fjortoft & Keith Scott iirc!! Sat in the Arkells & have only ever been in there about 4 or 5 times since!!

My first away Game was West ham in the Cup 1974 i think lots of Swindon support there
The away end was full of West ham real kicking that day and the reply the following Tuesday

Looking at the first post (thanks Constanza), there aren't many of us whose first game was away.  Not too surprising, I guess.

Home to Blackburn in 1988 I think it was. Can't remember the result (which even at that young age probably means that we lost) but do seem to recall Ossie Ardiles and Steve Archibald turning out for the visitors.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19880138

Ta.

Interesting to note just the 23 teams in Division 2 that year.

First game my Dad took me to was Swindon Reserves 1 Southport 2 in 1968 (I think). Can't remember much about that day except for:

1. jumping onto the pitch perimeter to retrieve a ball that went out of play (because you could in those days), and
2. changing the score in the Football Pink to 3-2 and magically expecting us to move up the table (in my defence I was 7 at the time).

Moved to Australia shortly after beating Arsenal at Wembley and it took me until 1986 to get back to the County Ground, just in time to see Swindon 2 Blackpool 6. Did, at that point, think I was a bad luck charm but happy to say that I have seen Swindon win many times since then.

Hoping to get back for a holiday next season but will need to wait for the new season's fixtures to come out so that I plan it around when we are at home (preferably a Saturday/Tuesday arrangement).

Swindon 1 Sheff Wed 0 1972 Frank Burrows scored. All I can really remember is wondering why the mustachioed winger had to take all the corners from both sides. Went with my neighbour and his son, and neighbours brother and his 2 sons. Think they had about 4 season tickets and smuggled at least 2 of us in somehow in the seats in the old shrivvy road. You had to go up a real rickety old stair case to get up there.

Next game was a night game v Burnley - stood on the Stratton bank seem to remember no segregation between home and away fans but what really stuck with me as a 8 year old kid was the vivid green of the pitch and the bright white floodlights as you first entered the terrace. That image still gives tingle of anticipation for night games even now.

Portsmouth at home 27/02/1993 - 1-0 (Bodin)  ;D

My first away game I am reliably informed was Portsmouth, I must have been about 4 so about 1992....I have absolutely no recollection of it whatsoever or my first home game for that matter.

First away game I remember would have been a couple of trips to Elm Park followed by Old Trafford in the Coca-Cola Cup 1996.

I have only a very vague recollection of the game, but I think my first time was when my dad took me to a testimonial match at the CG when Stanley Matthews was playing in the other team, possibly an All-Star selection. It would have been in the mid to late fifties. I stood on the boards, Stratton Bank, just to the right behind the goal. I watched the Maurice Owen generation and later teams from that spot, moving later to watch Bert Head's Babes from around the half-way line, standing at the front of what became the North Stand (called "The Enclosure" I think) . Then to the back of the Town End in the late sixties.  Happy Days...

First away game was at Crystal Palace, traveling there with my dad and a few of his friends in a Vauxhall Cresta estate, owned by Bill O'Connel. He ran a shop in Swindon Road, Stratton, which later became Sleeman's. I think we lost 4-1.

I can't remember my first Town game, apart from by using the method of looking at the results and thinking I must have been at that one. So, 1960-61 is the best bet, the days of Arnold Darcy dancing down the wing, Bronco Layne preparing to spend time with his lawyer, and of course Ernie Hunt's barrell chest, Woodruffs throw ins, and Mike Summerbee's nose.

At a guess then, the first game was Lincoln City at home on 30th September 1960. We won 4-0.
Later I enjoyed watching players like the vertically challenged goalie Tony Hicks taking time off from his love affair with pints of Guinness :pint: to crouch between the sticks, Keith East who we saw score 9 goals in a week, Frank "ten past" Haffey and our best ever player, Ron Dodgers. EVERY time Don got the ball, a collective aaaaaaahhhhhhh reverberated around the ground

But the first game I can really remember going to was at Leyton Orient on 28 March 1964, proudly wearing my new Donkey Jacket. The Kinks "All Day and all of the Night" blaring out of the coffee bars juke-boxes on Leyton High Street. Can't remember the fucking game, though the statistics say we lost 2-1

16 Sept 1986

Swindon 2 Blackpool 6

Stood on the Town End, what a terrible but realistic way to realise life as a Town fan !

Swindon 2-2 Newcastle in the Premier League 1993, can't remember the date. I don't actually remember anything about the game, I vaguely remember my dad picking up some mates and also seem to remember finding the floodlights fascinating!

Pretty sure my first away game was Wrexham in 1996. We lost, and that was the first time I'd seen us lose and I bawled my eyes out.

Surely you can remember Andy Mutch and the somersault?

Pic on my office wall....

The Newcastle game was on my 10th birthday.

Two goals in quick succession are always great.

Well I was about 4 at the time and wouldn't have been able to see it anyway!

There's got to be a Youtube clip of the Grandstand opening that included the Mutch Flip and Point.

Lovely stuff.

Ten four  :)

Wasnt that the game where Alan Mayes ran the show for Blackpool ? I remember standing in the Shrivenham Road stand with my dad, he was applauding Mayes, when just about everyone else was ready to kick off. First time I remember being a little bit scared at a match  :-[

They had a stocky winger called Mark Taylor, who tore us a new one that night, I thought he'd go on to be a decent player, but after a couple of successful seasons with the Tangerines he got injured, missed a season and a half and was never the same again. The one who did go on was Paul Stewart, he got one on the night....went on to Spurs and played for England.

3 players never played for Macari again after that night.....Kenny Allen, David Cole, stalwarts of the Div 4 champions, and Lingy who'd arrived in the summer.

Early '83. Port Vale at home. Won 1-0. They wore yellow. Never seen so many people in one place. 5 years old, just turning 6. I chose my team for life on that day. Every time I go in the NS, my nostrils are still filled with smell of cigars despite it being non-smoking for  20 odd years.

There used to be an old boy in the arkells, the cigar he smoked would last the whole game. damn thing must have been a foot long before he sparked it.

Home win 1-0 V Orient 1968.

Mine was in the 2004/05 season vs Bradford at home. Can't really remember anything about that game, I think I went to a few with my uncle that season :D, but my earliest memories of watching Swindon was in the 2005/06 season when we got relegated.

I'd forgotten about Ling's first spell at the club and didn't realise he'd played in that game. What I remember about the game was that when the 3rd or 4th Blackpool goal went in a few fans started booing and singing "what a load of rubbish" and they were quickly shouted down - the Town End then started up with "Lou Macari's red and white army" and it went on for practically the rest of the match. The Town players noticeably raised their game and made a fight of it.....and it seemed to kick the season. After a slow start to the season we never looked back from then on.....or that's how I remember it anyway. Then again maybe the tears have blurred the memories a little bit....... I remember Mayes scoring at the Town End though.

Swindon 0 Ipswich 1    27th March 1948.  My brother took me, and knew our goalkeeper Norman Uprichard personally.  Can't remember much else. 

Thanks normy. Maurice Owen's first full season.

Thanks Costanza.  I think I remember him, and later, plus Bob Edwards, Harry Lunn, Garth Hudson, Peart, Onslow, George Hunt, Jimmy Bain, and a few others.  :)

Are you Reg's son?

I remember Harry Lunn used to have a shop in Commercial Road, quite near the market...I was never sure what he actually sold...but in those post war days of proper austerity probably not a lot.

 A mate showed me an early 50's ration book last night, that had belonged to his grandparents....the authorities were very pleased to announce in 1951, that the Empire had managed to provide us with sufficient sugar, that there was now a small surplus which could be used to raise some $ (US dollars).

Much to the fore on the ration book, was Tate and Lyle's Mr Cube.....who brandishing his sword of free enterprise, and shield to ward off the threats of Attlee's nationalisation.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xAC-6u07qek/UUX-dBvf__I/AAAAAAAAOHE/VR1k-MbXOnM/s320/mrcubesword.jpg)

First Town game for me was a 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace in March 1988, just turned 6.  Hooked since that day.  First away game was Chelsea away in Feb 1989, we lost 3-2.

Harry Lunn"s fish bar.
Eat in or takeaway iirc.Had a tank with "pick youre own" Lobsters.
Opposite Terry Warner sports shop.

My first game came before we moved into the area (Faringdon) - we went with the family we knew in town.
I'd have to guess something like 1960/1.

Stood on Shrivvy Road stand SB end. For years I always thought I'd seen us beat Bristle Shitty [topical note ahoy !] 4-3
but I've looked up all the records and can find no hint of anything remotely like that (!)

Is that worse than remembering nothing about your first game ?!  :no:

Very, very similar to me albeit 10 years earlier.

First game Nov '98 2-0 win vs Palace- caught the bug
First away game we lost by 1 goal in West London too; 0-1 vs Fulham in October '99.

Edit: Age 6 also.

I've uploaded my entire collection of STFC footage to YouTube, so if I've got any video of your first game, it will be on there now!  There are now 1725 videos available on the YT channel and via the site match pages.

Read about it here:  http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2271 (http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2271)

Wow!  Good work, sir!!

Great work! In the absence of any football today, I'm watching Swindon vs Walsall from 1988 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl2i3PwCScQ Style of play is so so different from todays side.

That game was shite....it was around the time that Macari was often not around on match days, so the rumour mill about his liking for a punt, went into overdrive....there were even the usual mongs who thought he should be sacked, as back to back promotions weren't good enough for them.

This is fantastic. Thank you.

21.03.87 vs Fulham 2-0 Quinny got both and I've been hooked ever since!

January 11th 1975, home to Hereford, won 1-0.

And I found the link!
http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19750126

League Cup semi final against Wolves 77/78 ? All I remember about the game is The town End chant of ' ANDY GRAY WANK WANK WANK ! ' ..... Quality   :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

First Town game was home to Hull in Jan 1966. Beat them 3-1.
I sat in the top of the old Shrivvy Road stand, and thought, wow, what a fantastic football ground !

First away game v Fulham in Oct 1970. Lost 1-0 in the League Cup.

Here's mine   :)

https://youtu.be/Omu4q_CxTPc

https://www.youtube.com/v/p6IA0hcklIQ%26hl=en%26color1=0x5d1719%26color2=0xcd311b%26border=1

My first and Alan Mayes final goal

November 2nd,1976. Drew 1 each with Palace,evening kick off. Walked up the steps in the (then named) north stand,saw the pitch lit up & not exaggerating when I say my life changed that night.

Not since 1975 then…  :hmmm:

I have exactly the same first impression as you though. Seeing the floodlit pitch and the advertising hoardings as I crested the steps of the Shrivvy Road, feeling like this was the big time, and was hooked in that instant.

First game: Swindon Town v Crewe 1995 (can't remember the date)

I was 8 and all I can remember was my dad saying about how good Neil Lennon was, which turned out to be true!

Fan since 75,first 'live' game 1976

August 1978 - League Cup game against Portsmouth which the Town won 4-2.  If I recall correctly, there were some escapees from the Town End who ran the length of the pitch to confront the Pompey fans on the Stratton Bank before the kick-off.  There was a bit of a scrap on the pitch before everyone went back to their respective end and the game started.  Hooked from that day forward!

With it being pre season and all that I thought it would be a good time to start this again - for those like me who didn't post last time. My first game was aged 8 with my Dad in the Town End seeing us beat a strong Liverpool team 2-0 in the league cup 3rd round with Sir Don scoring a brace. Mostly downhill since!

1979-1980 watched Kammy in the north stand, Married to my cousin free tickets I think   :clap:

You got free tickets for marrying your cousin?

Standard practice in Oxford

Home fixture 1967 v Scunthorpe, 2-0 in front a large crowd if my memory serves me right.

Swindon 2-1 Brentford. Boxing Day '02, Gurney & Parkin.

My first post although I've been registered and a n avid reader of the TEF for years!

I'm ready to be called a cunt as my friendly welcome  :)

This was my first game as well I was seven and I was more interested in the trouble! I was told to watch the football not the fighting  :D

Alright cunt?
You're well fucking old.

 :)

First game I was seven, in 1948, and we lost to Ipswich. I must be the oldest cunt on here?

What? Reg is so old he doesn't actually have an age recognised by the standard numeric system.

Reg is a youngster first match 1962

Yes but he was 32 at the time ;)

You're too old to be a cunt!

21st October, 2-1,  12,663 attended and Danny Murphy played to.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?Tab=Video&MatchID19960113

I remember Finney say on the radio that he was still shaking after his penalty crept in.

Look at the sheer quantity of Crewe fans! You don't see that anymore.

Same could be said for us too.

Bear in mind that it was a top of the table clash & Crewe had a good side with lots of potential.

My first game was a cup match against Pompey too,but it was in 1977 and we won 4-3.

My old man hated football so a neighbour took me. We stood in the Southside terrace,and I went down the front with all the other nippers,I would've been 7 at the time.
I'll never forget that feeling walking into the ground under floodlights,and the smell of frying onions and pipe smoke.

The thing that caught my attention the most was the chant of "Sa - win -don",which my family,who don't hail  from Swindon, found hilarious when I told them later.
My mum still takes the piss today,asking how 'Sa win don' got on

That,and the amount of violence!
I couldn't believe the sight  grown men beating the shit out of each other on the pitch just yards in front of me,as Elkie Brooks' "Pearl's a singer" gently played over the Tannoy system.
One bloke even leap frogged over me to get on the pitch and smack someone.
Yet everything around me seemed to carry on as normal,like no one had noticed the ongoing spectacle.
The  Announcer wittered  away and old boys checked their programmes like nothing had happened.

One Swindon fan that was dragged off by Police, was black,and I remember being shocked at the amount of racist abuse he received.
Even the guy I was with shouted "Get back to the jungle".

As for the game itself,all I remember is Chris Kamara scored and became my instant favourite player.
And I had change out of 50p!

And I've been suffering ever since..

 :D

Thanks for the warm welcome Ells you're right I'm getting old  :cry:

I might have got confused and my first game may have been 1977 it was definitely against Pompey that's for sure!

'78 was a good year for the Pompey head-to-head.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/HeadToHead.asp?Team=Portsmouth

Kammy is married to my cousin

 Home to Coventry 64 I think lost 0-3 bank holiday Monday , cov keeper got head injury went off so centre half went in goal no sub's in those days Yes it was that long ago , remember standing in Town end with my late dad ,think town went down at end of season with Bert head in charge .

We haven't lost at home in a league game to Cov since 1960. In the 64/65 relegation season we beat them 4-1 at the CG, with The Don getting a brace.

Not as memorable as the Cobblers game a couple of weeks later when we came back from 0-2 at HT to win 4-2.

Home to Cambridge January 1992.  Dion Dublin scored the 2nd in a 2-0 defeat.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19920125 (http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19920125)

Ah well that at least 3 points next season.

October 17th 1992 Swindon town 5-1 Notts County 

Not mine but the first game I took my son to.

April 1999, Home to Grimsby.

Town won 2-0 with goals early in each half.

Son was impressed by the fact we had two goals (we only had one in the garden) and kept asking which one was Alan Shearer :)

April 14th 1973.  Swindon 0-0 Millwall

Not a great time to start watching the town.  ;D

Pretty sure I was at that game in the Townend. Kevin Horlock scored a screamer IIRC.

Yep was a cracking game and goal, Ling, Mitchell, Summerbee, Moncur, Horlock all scored, we had a super side back then.

From 1 min 30 secs in...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCucX_Ig7As

I was the steward to the left of the Town End goal, on the front gate and had a cracking view of several goals ;)

"Go get a proper job"  :)

I bet that the steward training was pretty minimal in those days.

I worked at the club for 3 years but then left to get a "proper job" ;) but stayed on as a steward from 88 till 99, the training was a 3 hour session on a summer Sunday morning hosted by the police that basically told you what you could do and how to take down someone attacking you with a bottle. It was good fun!

I already had a part time job as a night club bouncer at the Brunel Rooms at the time so knew what to do so it was piss easy.

I got paid £25 per game and at that time the price of a ticket was £10 and I would have gone anyway so I was £35 up per game!

The only times I ever felt threatened by any away fan (I am a pretty big lump and most away fans never argued with me anyway) was Cardiff in the FA cup in 95 and against Millwall in the LC QF of 95.

Millwall brought "spotters" who were supposed to go in and eject the known trouble and all they did was "hes banned" "hes a trouble maker" and they did nothing, the Police told us not to go into the crowd and eject any fans unless we had backup from them....we had no backup! and there was a lot of trouble inside the ground, horrible thugs both those sets of fans.

Oxford, Shitty and Rovers fans were like choirboys in comparison.

Good insight there PV, thanks.

Remember both games well.
Cardiff was a nasty one, particularly after the game.

Also recall the stewards legging it along with everyone else after an early season Leicester pitch invasion late 80's / early 90's.

I don't remember that at all, could have been one game I missed, but doesn't ring a bell at all.

The only pitch invasion I do remember was Lids fans invading the pitch at the end of the Premier season and running towards the Town End where I was steward but they were actually non threatening and pretty well behaved set of fans.

The Leicester one was when a steward got clumped, a few of em got on the pitch and didn't do much. It was 0-0 with a 13k crowd, think it was first game of the season in 92?

It was the first game of the 91-92 season, it finished 0-0, i remember them coming on to the pitch.

Yeah I definately missed that one! sounds like a good job, probably on holiday at the time being August.

Excuse me WB, not all of us legged it.

I think I remember that game.  It was shortly after Kammy had signed for us from Pompey.  On the pitch it was a helluva battle and Kammy was everywhere, especially with his sliding tackles.  Racist chanting was of course, sadly, common in those days.  I recall having been especially shocked to hear monkey chants directed at Kammy that night by the Pompey fans as I had thought he would be one of those players they still loved.  I have always hated all racist behaviour but, looking back, it is a strange sensitivity that I should have felt Kammy somehow had something about him that made it shocking that HE should be abused. Regardless, Kammy became a new hero for me too right up to the time he ended his Swindon career (and acquired a criminal conviction) by breaking the nose of Jim Melrose, the Shrew who had been racially abusing him.

Jaw, I think.

Good point, must have been quite a connection.

That's what I thought Reg, I was in the Shrivvy and just watched. They looked like they changed there minds when the town fans on the bank stood and stared. One fella at the front of the Shrivvy took a few on by himself  :D

Once they had the error of their ways explained they were fine.

Some footage starting at 3:30 in:

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?Tab=Video&MatchID=19920101

Ha, that was it  ;D a few got in the Shrivvy but nothing major. Nice sunny day, think they brought about 3000.

Well I never knew that Micky Hazard was a mackem!

 ??? Really?

I think the Leicester thing was a bit half hearted. Quite a few got on the pitch and ran across to the Shrivvy. Looked a bit threatening at first but a few at the front of the Shrivvy got on the pitch and swung at them. A few more at the front of the Shrivvy had a bit of a scuffle and the Leicester fans just walked off. Not many Swindon ran away because you couldn't with the crowd - probably did us a favour actually. The stewards ran faster than the Leicester fans.

I have never really thought about it, but when he opened his chops in that clip!

Yeah, a few stood their ground in the Shrivvy to trade with the invaders.
I stood on the Bank in those days and it was still possible to leave at the end via the side of the pitch.
Had to move a but sharpish when some of their lot moved towards us.
Remember one town fan picking up an advertising hoarding for self defence, just in case.

I think Leicester did the same at their next away game as well.
A far cry from today's sanitised atmosphere & cardboard clappers in the PL.

They decorated the Rat Trap before the game

5th in Lg 2 and an attendance of just 7,589.  A week or 2 later we shared the points at St James Park (the north easterly one) in a beautiful 0-0

My boys' first game:

STFC 1-1 Oldham (http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20130140)

Aged just 4 & 3 at the time.  It was about a month after Di Canio flounced off, and we still managed a 10k gate vs Oldham (who probably didn't bring many).

Oldham brought 335.

Mine was Swindon 0 - 2 Ipswich at the County Ground in Dec 1997.

A young Kieron Dyer ran the show and I got his autograph in the car park afterwards!

I went with my West Ham fan uncle to the county ground for my first game. I feel like we won 1-0 but it’s one of my very earliest memories that I still have access to so I could be wrong

Swindon 0-0 Norwich - pre season friendly 1995/96 season i think. Night game.

I was 7. Remember Bryan Gunn being in goal for them and being scared thinking he actually had a gun. Could barely see the game as there was a big bloke in front of me.

Peter Thorne got man of the match. Saw him leaving the stadium after the game and called his name out. He turned round and smiled at me.

Love for this cluster fuck of a club was born.

Didn't start going regularly until the 03/04 play off season when I could go with mates as my dad's a Man City fan!

I may be wrong but didn't we have a pre-season game v Norwich cancelled because of a waterlogged pitch not sure if it was that fixture or another one.

Saturday January 8th 1994, FA Cup - Third Round.

Swindon Town vs Ipswich Town. Draw 1-1.

Sat in the Town end and remember Andy Mutch score in front of me just before half time.  ;D

Still have the ticket stubs, Adult £10, Child £5.  :eek:

13th September 1975 - Swindon 2 Sheffield Wednesday 1

Anderson and Eastoe.

Have the programme framed with goal-scorers, crowd etc.
Magical piece of history the gateway to a life of misery.

Spring 1980: something like STFC 3 (Rowland 2, Mayes) - Sheff Utd 2 (McHale, McPhail) in front of 6200 odd.

DOB...Think that was the year Town beat Sunderland 3 0 when the goal posts broke.
Pleased that Flynn has been given the chance to get us going again. Let's hope.

Dec 1989, Town 3 Pox zilch. 10k+ midweek. Town End £3.50.

League Cup Run 1979 (?) - Beating Arsenal at home and then my Dad taking me out of school to go to the Semi Final at Wolves. Away end was packed.

Swindon 1 Halifax 1 August 1960. I think Ernie Hunt scored: 'Bert's Babes' and All That.

Swindon 4-2 Rushden and Diamonds 2004 in front of a crowd of 7023.

Thanks, I was feeling quite old with the list of 1990s and 2000s games :) as was 1974/75 as an 8 year old!

Possibly late 70's for me. God knows who against. I know Jimmy Allen as playing.

Myself and my Dad sat in the seats above the Shrivy.

This was my first game too, and I sat in the Town End with two other people who were at their first game! Neither of them still follow STFC, otherwise I would have assumed you were one of them!

T'was October.... http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19900112


First game of the season good crowd that http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19610101

I knew it was before Xmas  ;)

1974/75 season home to PNE. I think Bobby Charlton was their manager. For years I believed we drew 1-1 but Ploughman says we won 1-0. I was 5 and have never recovered! Loved it then and still do.

I'm not entirely sure when my first game was. The oldest programme I have in the attic is from 1994 (possibly the 3-1 win over Oldham but would have to check) so I guess that was probably it.

Been done a few times on here before, but v. Chelsea 1988

Aston Villa at home 72/73 season in the days of no segregation and remember Villa fans running from the corner of shrivenham Road into the Townend.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19730128

Saturday 24th April 1971 home to Carlisle. 0-0 in front of 11,561 and stood in the Shrivenham Road stand by the 18 yard line.

12 April 1969, Swindon 2 Bristol R 2, Don Rogers scored twice, crowd 20,000+. For a young teenager, what a start!!!!

Charlton played I'm sure! Yes it was 1-0, Eastoe

December 12th 1970

Swindon 1 Leyton Orient 1

30th December 1967. Swindon 1 Torquay 0. Shrivenham Rd. With my Dad who was a Chelsea fan.

I can never remember exactly but it was either Hull or Wolves in either 1989 or 1990. I think we won, whichever game it was. One of my earliest games was the play-off win at Wembley. I remember absolutely nothing about the game but have vague memories of being in awe at the sea of red and white on the tube.

I drove to the Sunderland play off game  :doh:. Parked in a hotel car park, my mate winding up the Sunderland fans by calling them Geordies  :D

I was only 10 or 11 so my memories are very vague but my dad said after the game he was quite intimidated as we were on a tube with Sunderland fans. Seemingly they were very gracious.

Yeah, they weren't any bother.

We went by coach, and had a bottle of champagne on ice if we won.
The Sunderland fans we met shared it with us & wished us good luck.

The Leicester fans a few years later were quite the opposite

To be honest, the way the game went, for them to get away with only a 1-0 defeat probably felt like a victory in the end!

That's why they accepted it

You should have been on the tube at Baker Street!

January 1967 Swindon v Reading - lost 0-1.
Stood on Shrivenham Road terrace with my Dad.

Millwall horrible bastards before and after.

Yep, and coming from up here we arrived at Wembley Park with them.

Mind you, we’d had some practice a couple of weeks before getting the train from London Bridge to Bermondsey for the league game

Idiots trying to get on Swindon coaches after the game when they should have been inside celebrating

Not sure if you've seen this video before......a nightmare from hell😆

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUXLSmqGXU&t=19s&pp=ygUoU3dpbmRvbiBmYW5zIHN0dWNrIHdpdGggbWlsbHdhbGwgb24gdHViZQ%3D%3D

If I remember correctly they already knew we were fucked regarding the incoming penalty for irregular payments. They had placards showing it.
The following season I think Spurs and maybe Chelsea were caught for the same offence but only fined. Hence the hatred for Ken Bates as he was chair of the league I  think could be wrong though.

Plenty of scrapes and near misses with that lot over the years.
Been to both the Old Den and New Den, Old Den worse.

A few older mates at work went to the old den and they feared for their lives when the coaches got ambushed.

The old Den one of the few places we went to & didn’t go for a pint before the game.

We went in the Boleyn at West Ham & the Elland at Leeds, but just didn’t fancy it in Bermondsey

How lovely it would be, to be able to say.... "yeah but those Swindon boys had the last laugh"... sadly not...

Imagine if we had won and that was the return journey!

Aden Flint looking like he's going out in the semi-finals of the play-offs. Can you turn it round Aden? No. No. No.

Posh well on their way to Wembley😀

  :clap: :clap:

Remember Terry Gibson scoring his one and only Swindon goal at the Old Den