Adver News: SWINDON TOWN v BRIGHTON: A potted history

[News Monkey]

SWINDON TOWN v BRIGHTON: A potted history
           
           


  SWINDON Town first hosted Brighton in the Football League in April 1921, with goals from Arthur Metcalf and Tober Weston securing a 2-1 win.

           

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[Reg Smeeton]

SWINDON TOWN v BRIGHTON: A potted history
          
          


  SWINDON Town first hosted Brighton in the Football League in April 1921, with goals from Arthur Metcalf and Tober Weston securing a 2-1 win.

          

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/9871335.SWINDON_TOWN_v_BRIGHTON__A_potted_history/?ref=rss
          
          
          

What a terrible bit of journalism...no mention of the fact we've been playing them since 1903, and had a keen rivalry in the Southern League...BHA winning the league, the season before our first crown, and defeating Villa in the Charity Shield. Some legendary Town matchwinners in that period, Harold Fleming, Archie Bown and a Billy Tout pen.

[4D]

I bet you still have the programme Reg 

[Reg Smeeton]

I bet you still have the programme Reg 

I wish, but it does annoy me the way lazy journos airbrush out the pre Great War period, when all the evidence points to it being one of our halcyon periods. It's a bit like how in SkyWorld there was no football before 1992.