Where and why

[magicroundabout]

born in Oxford and raised in Middle Barton, but my parents were brought up in Burford and supported Swindon.

For a while it was touch and go when i was small cos everyone else in Middle Barton were Oxford fans.

First Game was Swindon v Oxford in '87 (i was 9)
Swindon won 3.0 and the rest is history.

[BANGKOK RED]

Swindon, and started watching Swindon with a friend.

Came out to go back-packing for 6 months or so and just never made it back.

[magicroundabout]

Mum's family Londoners, Grandad was a Leyton Orient/West Ham fan back in the day, but moved to Carterton and had an unhealthy interest in Oxford

carterton seems to be a hot bed of STFC support

Isn't that a really really rough area or am I thinking of somewhere else?

my ex is from Carterton so yes it's a shit hole!!!

wouldn't say rough just full of squadies who think they own the place which then makes for some interesting nights in the Beehive!!!!

[land_of_bo]

Born in Swindon.

Went to 1st game with my mates dad in 86 (I was 10) when we won promo from div 4, beating chester 4-2

Then went with my uncle 'til I was old enough to go on my own and used to go home and away with arriba and others.

Moved to Bath in 97 and have been a part time fan since really. Don't go anywhere near as much as I would like to but have other commitments.

[Bogus Dave]

Born in leicester moved to swindon when i was two. Had a season ticket in the late 90's when we were top of division one for a while, then we lost to stevenage and i lost interest and began supporting leicester, because of family pressure and they were doing relatively well at the time. Came back 3/4 years ago for the 4-1 cup win over sheff wednesday, got a half season tickeyt and have been pretty much a full on supporter since

[Luci]

Ohh Magic didn't mean it in a derogatory way as don't know the area, just heard it on the grapevine  

[magicroundabout]

Ohh Magic didn't mean it in a derogatory way as don't know the area, just heard it on the grapevine  

no skin off my nose Lady so no harm done. hated the place anyway when i used to go over there.

[Reg Smeeton]

My paternal grandfather saw Fleming....my father Morris.

  My father bought a house right opposite the ground....I recall seeing the floodlights being built in 1960.....didn't stand a chance.

[adje]

I was born in Shaftesbury and my dad was Swindon through and through.First game was a 1-0 home win v Orient (as they were known then) in 1968 at the age of 11.Moved to Kent in 1985 and still manage to get to 15-20 games a season

[Barry Scott]

Born in Swindon, Dad's family Welsh, Mum's from London and France.

Mum's family are predominantly London, Herts and Beds, so pretty much all support Spurs, Dad's side didn't really have any football interest.

First Team i supported was Juve, mainly due to not liking Football until i was about 19 (1997) and at that time only had some Italian Footy prog on 4, so fell in love with Del Piero, Zidane et al.

Eventually decided i loved footy and decided to support Swindon. It seemed the right thing to do as it was close and began supporting the town without any outside interest as most my mates couldn't've given a fuck.

First game was against Colchester, a nil-nil, first game of the season, at the start of the Brady/Todd era, hardly missed a game since. I'm just a young gun in the fan sense.  

[fatbury]

Born in London ... moved here at 8 with my parents ... been here ever since ... my dads family have always lived in Swindon so he brought us back here ... my dad is a big Swindon fan ( was there in 1969 ) .. he took me to my first Swindon match in 1979 (after much persuasion) and ive been going ever since (except for the McMahon era where I boycotted for a little while). My dad no longer goes .. thats the ironic thing!

[neville w]

From Devizes originally, started coming to games with my Dad late sixties, drifted away mid 70's to early 80's rejoined at the start of the Macari era

I may know of otans's dad. ?

[Tails]

Mums side of the family from Didcot, dads side Bristol-ish. Dad watched football wherever he was and when him & my mum lived in Harwell, Oxfordshire they started watching Town. They took me regularly from 95 onwards, home & away every week without fail from then until about 2001. We had season tickets in the Kingswood. When you've spent that long doing something you don't stop! Parents didnt get ST's from 2003 onwards so the only way I could get in was as a ball boy, been a ST holder in the TE since 2005.

[REDBUCK]

Born in Malmesbury, grandparents and parents all lived and worked in Swindon.  Moved to Somerset when 6, supported Leeds, it was the 60'S / 70's, until I wanted to go to games.

On one saturday afternoon visit to Grandparents in 1976, escaped with my dad to see Grimsby beaten 3-0. Been traveling up from Bristol on and off ever since.

[anglia red]

Born in Swindon started watching town in 1948 moved to kent in 1956 but travelled back to most saturday home and away games until 1973. when I got married and could no longer afford it .Although I have moved around  a lot and I have never lost my love of STFC and even now living in Caister-on sea Norfolk I still manage about six games a season otherwise I listen to STFC World( crap Brunel commentary) .
Like to thank all of you who go to the games and post you coments on here