25 Years of match memories

[Cooperman]

Perfect.
From that day onwards you could say “if you don’t behave yourself I’ll take you to the Swans”.

Just a few years prior that would have been a very fitting punishment.

 

[3swan]

Perfect.
From that day onwards you could say “if you don’t behave yourself I’ll take you to the Swans”.

I did jokingly say that to my 2 but it ended up more them wanting to go however bad things were.

 

[ABSwan]

STID Swansea TIL I Die

 

[monmouth]

Shame it’s limited to 25 years, as that disallows me telling my father, very seriously, that Peter Abbott had solved our goalscoring problems.

For all the obvious, and there were many greater occasions, Leeds at home 3-2, beating the arrogant buggers (and outplaying them) with 10 men. Even Monk scored, but the Scotland goal was euphoric. I think I then realised that we were going to be something special again.

If only we’d had Peter Abbot to stick it in the onion bag…

 

[3swan]

Shame it’s limited to 25 years, as that disallows me telling my father, very seriously, that Peter Abbott had solved our goalscoring problems.

For all the obvious, and there were many greater occasions, Leeds at home 3-2, beating the arrogant buggers (and outplaying them) with 10 men. Even Monk scored, but the Scotland goal was euphoric. I think I then realised that we were going to be something special again.

If only we’d had Peter Abbot to stick it in the onion bag…

That's a name from the past

Came from Man U?

Promise but nothing.

 

[Colin-swansea]

Shame it’s limited to 25 years, as that disallows me telling my father, very seriously, that Peter Abbott had solved our goalscoring problems.

For all the obvious, and there were many greater occasions, Leeds at home 3-2, beating the arrogant buggers (and outplaying them) with 10 men. Even Monk scored, but the Scotland goal was euphoric. I think I then realised that we were going to be something special again.

If only we’d had Peter Abbot to stick it in the onion bag…

One of those players, whatever the era, you think your club has signed a good player from a top football club. Sadly, Abbott fell into the same bracket as being a raw centre forward who struggled to get his name on the scoresheet.
After a short stint in the USA with Hartford Bi-Centennials in May 1976 he became one of many ex-Swans players to link up for a second time with former Swans manager Harry Gregg at Crewe Alexandra.
Now those were the dark days.

 

[cmajack]

Swansea City v Yeovil Town
19th April 2008

It was the first game I took my son to, he wasn’t even three at the time and my wife warned me about keeping him amused for nearly two hours. I didn’t listen of course and was blinded by ‘but I want him to be able to say that he saw the Swans promotion party’. So off we trot with a bag packed full of things to keep him amused, arriving just before KO in order to limit the time sat around. In the fifth minute I was met with “daddy can we go now?”, which I stifled with a bag of teddy bear crisps. After quarter of an hour it was “can I go and see mummy” (who was shopping in the retail park), which I stifled with a Milkybar. After half an hour the grizzle started, which was only partially resolved with a drink. It went downhill from there and he was ejected at half time into the arms of his mum and they trotted off to the shops. As it happened we lost and didn’t secure the title that day. We still laugh at his bad behaviour to this day.

Does he stay a bit longer now ?

 

[Muteswan]

25 years doesn’t go back far enough for me. I started watching back in the 60’s when we were back and forth between the 3rd and the 4th for many years.
I was a regular home and away and then work got in the way.
I worked every Saturday for many years up until probably 2010. I even missed the playoff final because I was working. Radio was my friend as my job entailed driving and Swansea Sound covered most games. Was it Wyn the commentator? BBC Wales did a reasonable job but the rise to the Premier League coincided with a change in working pattern and back to being a full time attending supporter.
Greatest memory of a home game was probably Arsenal and our biggest ever attendance at the Vetch. Away memories are bittersweet, Leeds in the cup when we lost and Bradford at Wembley on the coldest day that ever was.
It’s been a journey.
Long may it continue.

 

[monmouth]

25 years doesn’t go back far enough for me. I started watching back in the 60’s when we were back and forth between the 3rd and the 4th for many years.
I was a regular home and away and then work got in the way.
I worked every Saturday for many years up until probably 2010. I even missed the playoff final because I was working. Radio was my friend as my job entailed driving and Swansea Sound covered most games. Was it Wyn the commentator? BBC Wales did a reasonable job but the rise to the Premier League coincided with a change in working pattern and back to being a full time attending supporter.
Greatest memory of a home game was probably Arsenal and our biggest ever attendance at the Vetch. Away memories are bittersweet, Leeds in the cup when we lost and Bradford at Wembley on the coldest day that ever was.
It’s been a journey.
Long may it continue.

Bobby Gobbledegould and Allan f**cking Clarke wasn’t it? I remember Ian Ure for the Arsenal for some reason, and that was some Leeds team that we should have beaten. Colchester nailed it the following season. I absolutely loved football in those days. Sad at the money pit and lack of player connection of today.

Funny I don’t remember Wembley being cold (I know everyone says, so it must have been).

 

[3swan]

25 years doesn’t go back far enough for me. I started watching back in the 60’s when we were back and forth between the 3rd and the 4th for many years.
I was a regular home and away and then work got in the way.
I worked every Saturday for many years up until probably 2010. I even missed the playoff final because I was working. Radio was my friend as my job entailed driving and Swansea Sound covered most games. Was it Wyn the commentator? BBC Wales did a reasonable job but the rise to the Premier League coincided with a change in working pattern and back to being a full time attending supporter.
Greatest memory of a home game was probably Arsenal and our biggest ever attendance at the Vetch. Away memories are bittersweet, Leeds in the cup when we lost and Bradford at Wembley on the coldest day that ever was.
It’s been a journey.
Long may it continue.

Yes I was at the 3 games as well, plenty of memories from back then as well.

 

[3swan]

Bobby Gobbledegould and Allan f**cking Clarke wasn’t it? I remember Ian Ure for the Arsenal for some reason, and that was some Leeds team that we should have beaten. Colchester nailed it the following season. I absolutely loved football in those days. Sad at the money pit and lack of player connection of today.

Funny I don’t remember Wembley being cold (I know everyone says, so it must have been).

Not too cold in the ground but freezing on the way back to the car

 

[NeathJack]

Too many to mention but a nod to the 3-2 win over Yeovil at the Vetch with a last minute Trundle winner after we'd blown a 2-0 and Gavin Williams had head slapped the North Bank.

That Hull game of course, followed by Bury home 1st game and then Cheltenham away which saw 3 hat tricks from 3 different Swans players in 3 games.

The 3-2 v Arsenal first season in the PL.

And finally the Forest play off game where the East Stand shook.

Happy times.

 

[Muteswan]

Bobby Gobbledegould and Allan f**cking Clarke wasn’t it? I remember Ian Ure for the Arsenal for some reason, and that was some Leeds team that we should have beaten. Colchester nailed it the following season. I absolutely loved football in those days. Sad at the money pit and lack of player connection of today.

Funny I don’t remember Wembley being cold (I know everyone says, so it must have been).

I think it was Mick Jones and Allan Clarke got Mel Nurse sent off.

 

[Darran]

Peterborough away the new year bank holiday game 2000,losing 2-0 won 3-2..
On a side note John Hollins noticed Amy being so small couldn’t see,came over picked over the barrier and sat her in the dugout,brought her back to us after the game and apologised for Barry Fry’s bad language.

Cambridge away November 2000,losing 3-0 halftime,soaking wet/cold,halftime whistle goes and I say “fuck this I’m going home.’ Amy starts crying doesn’t want to go,we stay.
John Hollins puts prolific goal scorer Steve Watkin on for the second half,Saverese bangs in two and Watkin equalises in injury time,absolute mayhem.

 

[J_B]

First game that I took my son to was Oldham (then a Premier League team) in the League Cup. We won 2 - 1 with Colin Pascoe scoring a cracking winner.
On the way home my son asked me why we were sitting with the Oldham supporters. I asked why he thought that we were and he replied that most of the people around us were calling the Swansea players horrible names all the time.
Welcome to “supporting” a football club.