Swansea City
The Seventy Two’s Football League team of the season
Team of the season
- Shwan Jalal (Bournemouth)
- Kevin McNaughton (Cardiff City)
- Joe Skarz (Bury)
- Jose Fonte (Southampton)
- Guy Branston (was Torquay United, now Bradford City)
- Dean Cox (Leyton Orient)
- Gareth Ainsworth (Wycombe Wanderers)
- Adel Taarabt (Queen’s Park Rangers)
- Scott Sinclair (Swansea City)
- Ryan Hall (Southend United)
- Craig Mackail-Smith (Peterborough United)
Manager: Paul Lambert (Norwich City)
I decided to do something a bit different for The Seventy Two’s Football League team …
Swansea City 4 Reading 2: The Swans fly out of the Football League
There were two themes prevalent in Swansea City’s play-off semi-final success over Nottingham Forest. Firstly, that Swansea are an excellent side and play some truly admirable football - essentially, that they deserved to win the tie. Secondly, that the margin of their victory was still narrow despite the two-goal advantage at the final whistle after their opponents hit the post when seeking a second half equaliser. At Wembley, these themes …
Reading v Swansea City: a tactical preview
The battle for a place in the Premier League sees two teams with contrasting styles take to the pitch at Wembley, writes Tangerine Dreaming.
In their semi-finals, both managers got their game plans spot on in the second legs to secure their passage to the final. Both managers know each other well and Brian McDermott will be trying to get the better of Brendan Rodgers after the latter led …
Football League play-off finals - At-a-glance form guide
Championship - Reading v Swansea City
Most recent on the left:
Last 10 results
Reading: WDWDLDWWWW
Swansea: WDWWWDLDWL
Last 5 scorelines
Reading: 3-0, 0-0, 2-1, 0-0, 2-3
Swansea: 3-1, 0-0, 4-0, 2-0, 4-1
Clean sheets
Reading: Kept clean sheets in last 4 away games
Swansea: Kept clean sheets in last 3 away games
Unbeaten league run
Reading: 4 games
Swansea: 6 games
Goals scored in last 10 games
Reading: 18…
McDermott plots to write Reading into history books
Barcelona win the European Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. It is 1992. From afar, Sven-Goran Eriksson watches. Within weeks, he is in charge of the beaten finalists. From Sampdoria, he moves on to Lazio and then to England. But he never coaches at Wembley - the historical old venue is being reconstructed to the tune of £757million. After leaving his role with England, Eriksson then takes an infamously circuitous route …