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Swindon Town's transfer deadline day that never was: The inside story of January 31, 2013
With help from key figures at the time, The Moonraker recounts the crazy January transfer deadline day of 2013, when Swindon Town signed three players only to be told the club were under embargo.
13.02.25, 13:56 Updated 05.06.25, 20:04 12 Minute Read
Sam Morshead
January 31, 2013 was a Thursday.
Swindon Town was in a state of flux and confusion, rocked by Andrew Black’s decision days earlier to stop funding the club.
On January 4, Black informed the senior management that he was pulling his cash. It left a considerable hole in Town’s finances.
Players had been listed on the open market, en masse, in a quasi firesale designed to raise enough money to get the business through until the following month.
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