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.

Preston v Swansea – Player Ratings

The Swans opened their league season this afternoon at Deepdale with a 1-0 win courtesy of a Morgan Gibbs-White goal, you can now take your chance to rate the players performances in the game…
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 16:54

Preston v Swansea – Match Centre

The Swans are opening their league season this afternoon at Preston and you can keep updated on events from Deepdale with both our match centre and our matchday thread. You can of course keep up to date with the progression of the matchday thread by clicking this link…
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 14:45

So, here we go again but this time it’s different

Whilst there may have been Friday night football, it is really today that the football season kicks off in earnest with the Swans on the road at Preston and all those hopes and dreams of a three month close season are fresh in our minds on a sunny August morning.…
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 7:30

Incoming monies help on an uncertain day

The news yesterday that we had sealed the exit of Bersant Celina and look to be just about due another ยฃ1m from the sale of Dan James probably couldn’t have been better timed as the government cast a big shadow of doubt over whether the plan to return fans to…
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 8:26

Cooper – “We were second best”

I guess Steve Cooper could only state the obvious when he reflected back on a Carabao Cup first round defeat at Newport and declaring us second best may even have felt slightly generous after a display that created more questions than it gave answers. The Swans were beaten 2-0 at…
Sunday, 6 September 2020, 8:55

Newport 2 Swansea 0

It feels strange when the opening game of a season is a League Cup tie but it matters not any more to the Swans afterย  hugely disappointingly poor performance saw us exit the Carabao Cup at the first round stage at the hands of League Two Newport County. In truth…
Saturday, 5 September 2020, 17:12
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