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.

It’s Fixtures Day

EFL football fans up and down the country will be making their plans for the next nine months today with the release of the fixture lists at 9am this morning. The fixture computer has been working its magic over the course of the past few weeks and the results of…
Thursday, 22 June 2023, 6:00

Duff closing in on move from Barnsley to SA1

As we reported yesterday, Southampton are on the verge of appointing Russell Martin at St Mary’s Stadium and we are now told that Barnsley’s Michael Duff will be not long after confirmed as his replacement here in SA1. With Martin’s compensation package with the Saints now agreed and awaiting official…
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 6:13

Swansea City heading to Spain to start pre-season

This coming Friday (23rd June) sees the players return from their close season break to start their pre-season training ahead of the new season start at the beginning of August. Most of that post-season has been dominated by the long running saga that has been the position of the manager…
Sunday, 18 June 2023, 7:00

Davies joins up at Tottenham Hotspur?

Whilst there were several reports in the past week that suggested Chris Davies was the Swans’ preferred choice to replace Russell Martin at the club, it appeared yesterday that we may have missed out on Davies who seems set to be part of Ange Postecoglou’s staff in North London. The…
Friday, 16 June 2023, 6:30

Swansea City and Southampton making a crazy situation worse

I’m not actually sure anyone really cares about what the discussion is about any more but none of Swansea City, Southampton and Russell Martin can move on properly without this matter of compensation is resolved. On the day that the Premier League fixtures were released it looks for all money…
Thursday, 15 June 2023, 13:44
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