The Swindon Town Sentinel
Match18 Jan 2031
Michael Spellman leads the rout of Cheltenham Town
3‑0, and Michael Spellman took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Swindon Town tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad20 Jan 2031
Words at Swindon Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paul Glatzel is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings20 Jan 2031
Nobody could get near Paul Glatzel
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Jan 2031
Florian Bianchini is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.43 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Player ratings20 Jan 2031
Michael Spellman in the eights
A performance of 8.51 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings20 Jan 2031
One of those days for Florian Bianchini
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.46, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings20 Jan 2031
Ninety minutes of Joe Sbarra at his very best
Marked 8.15. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Swindon Town.
Squad20 Jan 2031
The manager makes an example of Ben Middlemas
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad20 Jan 2031
Freddie Taylor in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Swindon Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Market The Paul Glatzel talk will not go away
- Market David Cook leaves for nothing
- Market Richard Young leaves for nothing