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Swindon Town's makeshift defence delivers as safety is all-but assured with mud-and-guts win over Chesterfield

Ian Holloway has managed to extract fresh flexibility from a group of players which had previously looked as elastic as a cream cracker. And this was the...

23.02.25, 09:58 Updated 05.06.25, 20:02 9 Minute Read

Sam Morshead

Sam Morshead

Hardly pretty, but pretty effective, Swindon Town keep on finding different ways to generate points at the County Ground.

The meeting with Chesterfield promised much in the buildup. Both teams have scored freely and conceded plenty over the course of the League Two season. Both enjoy playing direct, attacking football. Both harbour faint hopes of a late playoff push.

But anyone who rocked up in SN1 on Saturday expecting to be entertained by fluid football and regular goalmouth action would have left sorely disappointed.

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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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