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A Chairman Elect?

It has to be the one big dilemma for the new owners of Swansea City FC at the moment, just who will be the first Chairman of the new era ? There are only a few real people who could carry the job forward but many are tied in to…
Wednesday, 30 January 2002, 0:01

Is It Any Wonder?

And also, a fair indication of why the next few weeks are very critical as to whether we have a football club to take us further into the 21st Century under local control. Let’s get some things straight here. Matthew Bound is/was a decent third division defender. And as we…
Tuesday, 29 January 2002, 0:01

What’s In Store For Mel?

Over the weekend we had a few chats with a friend on the board of a successful lower league football club, and posed the question ” What will the new Swansea consortium be facing over the next few weeks “ Here’s the responses. For obvious reasons this particular Chairman has…
Monday, 28 January 2002, 0:01

Swansea City Needs You

This football club simply cannot and will not survive on the level of gates that we saw throughout 2001. I fully appreciate that there was bad feelings against the management and more lately the ownership but that has ended now and we need to show that we want this football…
Sunday, 27 January 2002, 0:01

Rochdale 2 Swansea 0

The start of what we hope will be a new era for Swansea City began today under the part ownership of the fans. After many years of saying ‘we’ or ‘ours’ when we talk about our team became true at Spotland. After a journey, which started in heavy rain with…
Saturday, 26 January 2002, 0:01

Roger On Takeover

Freestone who turned down the chance to leave the Vetch during Petty’s turbulent reign said “This is absolutely brilliant news. To be honest with you I didn’t think it was ever going to happen. Tony Petty was an arrogant and stubborn man and killing the deal with Mel Griffin proved…
Friday, 25 January 2002, 0:01

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