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Just Keeps Getting Better

So that will be top of the league then. A position we occupied for a decent time at the start of last season but around this time we lost it and never returned to the summit again – slipping gradually away to mid table. Surely we are better equipped this…
Saturday, 9 October 2004, 0:01

Views On Safe Standing

Two years ago, as the Football Fans Union, we first ran a survey concerning a Safe Standing campaign that is championing the return of terracing to football stadiums – not the large, old-style open terraces of yester-year but small, specially-designed areas utilising the latest engineering technology – similar to systems…
Friday, 8 October 2004, 0:01

Swansea 1 Mansfield 0

It matters not in football when a goal is scored – it’s scoring it that is the most important and for the second consecutive game, Swansea had to rely on a late one to secure the three points that their play for the 90 minutes deserved. Last time Mansfield visited…
Friday, 8 October 2004, 0:01

Programme – Mansfield

Welcome back to the Vetch Field for the first Friday night game of the new season – playing on a Friday because of a certain game at Old Trafford tomorrow afternoon. Can’t quite think what all that is about but as far as I am concerned it can wait until…
Friday, 8 October 2004, 0:01

Toshack Almost In?

Welsh bookmakers Jack Brown have given the strongest indication yet that John Toshack is to be named the new manager of Wales by closing all books relating to his appointment. With no announcement expected until after the two qualifying games this week, Jack Brown have revealed that they have taken…
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 0:01

Club Or Country?

Swansea v Mansfield. Wales v England. Two games, two days. One important to continue our promotion drive, one essential if the Welsh want to holiday in Germany in 2006. But to you, the average Swans fan, which one is the most important. An interesting debate raged on the message board…
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 0:01

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