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We need to talk about the County Ground experience: What's going wrong? How did we get here? And who's going to fix it?

SPECIAL REPORT: The Moonraker has spent the past week assessing the stadium's issues and why the look and feel of the ground has a considerable part to play in...

17.01.25, 17:48 Updated 05.06.25, 20:10 15 Minute Read

Sam Morshead

Sam Morshead

The County Ground experience has been in the news a bit lately, hasn’t it. And not often for the right reasons.

Be it slippery steps, peeping Tom CCTV, cobwebs on seats, lengthy queues, the wrong type of paint or leaky loos, 2024/25 has highlighted just how tired, weathered and weary Swindon Town’s stadium really is.

Club management and fans are united in the opinion that a trip to watch Swindon play has lost much of its charm, and that the facilities on offer bear a large responsibility for that.

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Sam Morshead

Sam Morshead is the founder and editor of The Moonraker. He was previously the chief sports writer at the Swindon Advertiser, head of sport at Total Swindon, and has been a Swindon Town fan since 1994.

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