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Charlie Austin (pictured in 2015) had scored 19 league goals for Swindon Town during the regular season.. This was Swindon's sixth trip to the play-offs and their fourth final, having gained promotion in the 1987 Football League Third Division play-off final, the 1990 Football League Second Division play-off final (before being relegated due to financial irregularities) and the 1993 Football ...
Swindon Town Football Club was founded by Reverend William Pitt of Liddington in 1879. [1] The team turned professional in 1894 and joined the Southern League which was founded in the same year. [1] During this period Septimus Atterbury played for the club. The Swindon Town team for the 1909–10 season
Author Dick Mattick selected the play-off final as one of the matches for his book Swindon Town Football Club – Fifty of the Finest Matches. [32] Conversely, in Sunderland A.F.C. – the official history 1879–2000 , the game was described as a "horrendous anti-climax" and that "the 1–0 scoreline was a travesty – [Sunderland] should have ...
This was Preston North End's tenth attempt to be promoted via the play-offs, with their three previous finals all ending in defeat. [9] [10] They lost the 1994 Third Division play-off final against Wycombe Wanderers 4–2, [11] the 2001 First Division play-off final 3–0 to Bolton Wanderers, [12] and the 2005 Championship play-off final 1–0 against West Ham United. [13]
Gillingham and Swindon Town were competing to be promoted from the Football League Third Division to the Second Division for the 1987–88 season. [1] [2] [3] The 1986–87 season was the inaugural season of the Football League play-offs, which were introduced as part of the Heathrow Agreement, a ten-point proposal to restructure the Football League. [4]
The game remained at 1–0 until the 70th minute, when Horsfield added his second and Don Rogers scored the third two minutes later. [12] With Roma pushing forward to get back into the game, Horsfield completed his hat-trick in the 89th minute – meaning Swindon Town had won 4–0 on the night, and 5–2 on aggregate. [12]
Hubbard started his career with Swindon Town and made his debut during an away defeat to Reading in the EFL Trophy group stage. His second appearance, when Hubbard came on as a substitute in the FA Cup First Round against Aldershot Town. [1] After finishing the academy league season Hubbard moved to Melksham Town on loan for the remainder of ...
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