I – Double Header
In November 1904, Town played a League match and an F.A.Cup tie on the same day – and at the same venue ! For the Cup tie, kicking off at 1.00 p.m., Swindon fielded their reserve side against Longfleet St Mary’s from Dorset. At 2.45 the first team kicked off a League fixture with Brentford. The ‘second string’ did rather better, winning 8-0, while the first teamers slumped to their fifth successive defeat, 1-3.

II – Fixture Frenzy
Town’s League programme for the 1902/03 season closed with seven successive home games - the last away fixture being on  March 14. Earlier in the campaign they had played seven successive games away, between October 11 and Boxing Day !

III – Taking the p*** !
Three Town players were suspended during 1896/97 for turning up at the County Ground in an intoxicated condition. But, for a Wiltshire League fixture in March 1901, opponents Holt arrived at the ground an hour late - and then drank beer on the pitch during the second half !

IV – No Change there then
For eleven years – between 1884 and 1895 – Swindon Town used a ground with no changing facilities. The players donned their kit at the Fountain Inn (now the Pipers Arms) in Devizes Road before walking down to the Croft !

V – Paddy in a paddy
Only once in their history have the Town conceded ten goals in a League game – and that was due to goalkeeper Bob Menham missing the train at Swindon !  Full-back Morton ‘Paddy’ Fagan had to go in goal at Kettering in December 1901, resulting in a   10-1 defeat. Swindon’s goal was scored by Kettering defender Draper.

VI – Practice makes Purse fat !
For a pre-season practice match between Town’s ‘first team’ and the reserves at the County Ground in 1948, a crowd of 11,882 turned up !  The bumper crowd was treated to an eight-goal feast as the Reds defeated the Blues 5-3.

VII – Top Bosses
Lou Macari, Ossie Ardiles and Glenn Hoddle were all former international players before taking the helm at Swindon Town. But they were not the first trio of managers at the County Ground who had represented their countries. Ted Vizard (Wales), Neil Harris (Scotland) and Louis Page (England) took charge between 1933 and 1953.

VIII – Goal Feast
No less than seventeen goals were scored when Town reserves met Exeter City reserves in a Southern League fixture in December 1928. Swindon’s Bill Culley scored five goals in a 12-5 victory !

IX – Town ‘Twins’
In the close season of 1933, one of the many players to be released by Town was Cyril Quinn, an ex-Blackpool forward. One of those signed on to replace him was Fred Fisher, from Mansfield. The two players were born on exactly the same date - 29 January 1910 - just six miles apart.

X – Signing Off
In a strange case of ‘feigning injury’ Fred Laycock - who ended his League career at Swindon in 1931/32 - left the field during Barrow’s Third Division North fixture at Rotherham in March 1925, to sign for another club !  His new employers, Nelson, were duly punished by the F.A. with a fine of five guineas (£5.25p !) 

XI – Keeping it in the family
In 1929, Town goalkeeper Teddy Nash married Florence Bryant - the Swindon Ladies FC goalkeeper !

XII – Poland for Wales
Winger George Poland signed for Swindon in 1934 but failed to make the first team before being released. He later gained full Welsh international caps - as a goalkeeper !

XIII – Palace Pay the Penalty
Town’s 5-3 Football Combination victory over Crystal Palace in May 1961 was an eventful game for defender Peter Chamberlain. He conceded a penalty in the first minute, then went on to score all five Swindon goals !

XIV – Dutch Mastered
In a pre-season friendly at the County Ground in August 1979, Town trailed 0-1 to their Dutch visitors JC Roda Kerkrade at half-time. Five substitutes came on for the second half and scored four goals between them to give Swindon a 4-1 victory.

XV – Low Fives
Swindon Town lost their opening five Division Three fixtures in 1980/81. The reserves also lost their first five games in the Football Combination.

XVI – Thrifty Fifty
Top scorer for the Town in their first ever promotion season - 1962/63 - was John Stevens. He scored fifty goals in 45 games, but eight of them came in a third team fixture, a 20-1 win over Peasedown Miners Welfare in the Wiltshire League !

XVII – We’ll Meet Again
Between August 27 and December 31 1960, Swindon met Shrewsbury Town eight times - twice in the Third Division, once in the F.A.Cup, three times in the League Cup and twice in the Football Combination !

XVIII – Grantham Goal rush
In a First Round F.A.Cup tie at Grantham in December 1965, there were no goals in the first 52 minutes and then six in the next twenty ! Town won 6-1.

XIX – Gough’s Gap Years
When Tony Gough made his Town debut against Sunderland in August 1970, it was only his second ever League appearance. The first was for Bristol Rovers 11 years and 121 days earlier !  It was an eventful day, with Gough scoring in a 2-0 victory while the goalposts at the Stratton Bank end collapsed !

XX – Last from Lagos
Fola Onibuje became the second Nigerian from Lagos to appear at the County Ground, but his arrival came some 53 years after the first, Titus Okere. Believed to be the first black player to represent Swindon Town, Okere failed to make the first team.

XXI – Czech Mates
During the 2006/07 season there were two goalkeepers serving in the top four divisions in English football that were born in the former federal republic of Czechoslovakia - Petr Cech of Chelsea and Petr Brezovan of Swindon Town. On October 14, both suffered serious injury and were carried off, Cech with a fractured skull and Brezovan with a fractured arm.