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.

“I have developed as a player and a person”

You can see by watching him that Conor Gallagher has a bright future in the game.ย  Although maybe he hasn’t hit the goalscoring heights that he hit at Charlton earlier in the season, his five assists for the Swans put him second in the list for the squad this season,…
Sunday, 5 July 2020, 7:30

The legacy of Garry Monk

30th May 2011.ย  It will be a date that will be long etched into the memory of every Swansea City fan.ย  It was the date that the Premier League finally got a Welsh team as the Swans etched their names into history thanks to a 4-2 Championship final win over…
Saturday, 4 July 2020, 19:15

Here we go again…

The Swans are back in front of a near empty Liberty Stadium tomorrow when they welcome Sheffield Wednesday – and former Swans captain and manager Garry Monk – to South Wales as the season enters its final half a dozen fixtures. With our play off hopes hanging by the thinnest…
Saturday, 4 July 2020, 17:25

The invisible men of Swansea City

“We want to build a football club that is competitive, exciting to watch and sustainable over the long term” – words used by Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien in the Jack magazine in August 2016, less than one month after they took over the football club.  Words that are as…
Friday, 3 July 2020, 17:42

You say it best when you say nothing at all

One of the things that I find hugely frustrating about football is the almost expected requirement for someone to say something positive when it is pretty glaringly obvious that there is no real positives to take from a performance. I completely understand that at the same time you don’t want…
Thursday, 2 July 2020, 8:00

The retained list increases the worry for next season

On the face of it the departure of Courtney Baker-Richardson and Jefferson Montero is not going to damage any chances we may have had next season but the fact that other key first team squad members are not (yet) on the retained list makes for worrying times. Given our current…
Thursday, 2 July 2020, 8:00
1 328 329 330 331 332 336

Next Up

Forum Latest

Threads: 21,170

Messages: 289,682

Members: 4,729

Latest member: SY-