Phil Sumbler

Been watching the Swans since the very late 1970s and running the Planet Swans website (in all its current and previous guises since the summer of 2001 As it stood JackArmy.net was right at the forefront of some of the activity against Tony Petty back in 2001, breaking many of the stories of the day as fans stood against the actions where the local media failed. Was involved with the Swans Supporters Trust from 2005, for the large part as Chairman before standing down in the summer of 2020.

Swans eyeing Manchester City defensive duo

The links between Swansea City and Manchester City are obvious when Swans sporting director Mark Allen having been the academy director at the Etihad Stadium for eight full seasons until 2017. Add to that a close relationship between Swans boss Russell Martin and Manchester City’s Under-23s coach, Brian Barry-Murphy and…
Friday, 24 December 2021, 10:16

A circuit break for football is the best option

As football heads into the Boxing Day figures we face a reality that, at the time of writing on Thursday evening, 18 of the 40 fixtures scheduled across the top four divisions for that day have already been cancelled. Each of those fixtures have been called off due to at…
Friday, 24 December 2021, 7:30

Millwall v Swansea City – Match Postponed

The Swans Boxing Day fixture at Millwall has been confirmed as postponed due to continued cases of Covid within both camps although largely towards the Millwall one. Lions boss Gary Rowett confirmed earlier the extent of the damage of the outbreak within his squad and this led to an announcement…
Thursday, 23 December 2021, 13:22

EFL Championship – Now six Boxing Day fixtures cancelled

The Swans Boxing Day postponement at Millwall now takes the amount of games already called off in the Championship to six.ย  As expected, the EFL Championship is now seeing Boxing Day fixtures decimated with six games currently postponed due to Covid-19 and more expected to also fall victim over the…
Thursday, 23 December 2021, 13:17

Martin – guidelines don’t make a lot of sense to me

Russell Martin says that the restrictions imposed on sporting grounds in Wales this week do not make alot of sense to him as he talked yesterday about the lack of logic that sees Swans fans able to travel to Millwall on Sunday but unable to attend their local ground just…
Thursday, 23 December 2021, 8:30
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