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1. Photo of the week ~ Vetch Field, former home to Swansea City ...
(Stories)
1 August ~ Vetch Field was home to Swansea between 1912 and 2005, when it was replaced by the Liberty Stadium. The record attendance was 32,796 against Arsenal in the FA Cup fourth round in February ...
Created on 01 August 2017
2. Classic match ~ Swansea 2-0 Man City, 1982 ...
(May 2016)
15 May ~ While Manchester City travel to Swansea today hoping to secure a Champions League spot next season, their hosts have ensured a mid-table finish this season, meaning they will start their sixth ...
Created on 15 May 2016
3. Reading 2 Swansea City 4 ...
(Match of the month)
A dramatic season finale lives up to the pre-match hype. Swansea wobble but survive Reading’s comeback as the Welsh fans look forward to top division games and being patronised by Gary Lineker. Huw Richards ...
Created on 21 July 2011
4. Watford 2 Swansea City 0 ...
(Match of the month)
Since they last met at Vicarage Road over a quarter of a century ago Swansea and Watford's paths have diverged. However, as they meet again in the second tier it is the visitors who are building an ...
Created on 21 April 2009
5. Swansea City 2 Yeovil Town 0 ...
(Match of the month)
With a new ground, booming crowds and one of the game's cult heroes in phenomenal striking form, Swansea fans aredreaming of the Toshack era writes Huw Richards SPRE – the letters visible on seats ...
Created on 14 January 2006
6. Swansea City ...
(The five minute...)
Huw Richards gives us an update on  life as a Swans fan Are Swansea fans in favour of a move to a new stadium or would some prefer to stay put? The Vetch is a dump, but it is a much loved, highly at­­mospheric ...
Created on 14 June 2002
7. Allams’ chaotic Hull City regime rapidly selling Leonid Slutsky down the Humber
(Stories)
... plausible rumour has it that the club owners drew those funds in advance for other unknown purposes earlier in the year. In these circumstances, the arrival of Swansea reserve left-back Stephen ...
Created on 25 August 2017
8. Swansea’s loss of style and fans’ trust hurts more than Gylfi Sigurdsson sale ...
(Stories)
... the ideal pre-season for Swansea City, dominated by uncertainty on and off the pitch. On it the potential transfer of star player Gylfi Sigurdsson to Everton and off it the potential legal action from ...
Created on 18 August 2017
9. Keeping it real: lower-league football’s growing authenticity problem
(Stories)
... of what exactly it was I went away to do. To bridge a conversational gap, people scoured their reserves of knowledge about football below the top two tiers and alighted invariably on one figure: Swansea ...
Created on 22 June 2017
10. Hope abounds Paul Clement can convert Swansea performances into points ...
(Stories)
Embed from Getty Images After heartening results in “no hope” away matches the Swans face a run of winnable games they must take advantage of, starting with Burnley 3 March ~ Swansea's recen ...
Created on 03 March 2017
11. Swansea have little to gain from hiring Ryan Giggs ...
(Stories)
... matters have rather submerged it, and it may never happen. But talk of Francesco Guidolin being replaced at Swansea by Ryan Giggs has moved rather beyond the “linked with” lowest common denominator of ...
Created on 30 September 2016
12. Classic match ~ Burnley 4-0 Swansea, FA Cup, 1961 ...
(Videos)
g-JrVt5FgPs 13 August ~ Burnley are back in the Premier League and kick off their campaign today at home to Swansea, and there’s little doubt their fans would be delighted with a repeat of the 1960-61 ...
Created on 13 August 2016
13. Millwall fans denied entry by Man City win complaint
(Stories)
... to watch nearby Manchester City play Swansea instead. However, upon learning they were Millwall fans the cashier at the Etihad refused to sell them tickets. When Weavis initially complained Manchester ...
Created on 16 July 2016
14. Get with the programme ~ Preston v Swansea, 1964 ...
(March 2016)
... this far with a series of single-goal wins against Nottingham Forest and Bolton (both First Division), and Carlisle and Oxford (both Fourth Division). Swansea, lying just above the Second Division relegation ...
Created on 14 March 2016
15. Alan Curtis means more than steady hands to Swansea ...
(January 2016)
... loyal family retainer. And certainly Swansea City’s decision to stick with Alan Curtis as acting manager has something of that. But to see him in those terms is to rather underestimate his importance to ...
Created on 08 January 2016
16. Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 Coventry City 1
(Match of the month)
... Reading and Swansea at the turn of the month have hinted that the writers know what they are talking about, despite the team being only one place off the top. After spending the Sir Jack Hayward years ...
Created on 21 December 2008
17. Derry City 1 IFK Gothenburg 0
(Match of the month)
... in the Republic of Ireland’s championship in 1985. Like Berwick Rangers, Cardiff and Swansea City, Derry play in the league of another country, although it’s probably fair to say that many in the city, ...
Created on 14 September 2006
18. City games
(Business & finance)
... fund managers will want to add to McCabe’s largesse? Since Manchester United floated in 1991, there have been 27 English and Scottish clubs listed on the Stock Exchange, along with Swansea from Wales. ...
Created on 14 April 2006
19. Swansea, Doncaster, Bury ...
(Sharp end)
Tom Davies takes a look at four clubs in the news for the wrong reasons The controversial Tony Petty is still in charge at Swansea after winning a legal battle with the former City cap­tain Mel Nurse ...
Created on 14 January 2002
20. Brian Flynn: Little wonder by Leon Barton
(Managers)
... me time. As a manager that’s priceless”. He is a little less sure-footed on Flynn’s time at Swansea, making the common error of describing the Supporters’ Trust as owners rather than minority partners, ...
Created on 09 August 2018

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