The Preview: Welcome to the game almost nobody will want to play, and almost nobody will want to watch
08.10.24, 12:17 Updated 05.06.25, 20:08 7 Minute Read
Sam Morshead
Generally, there is not a good time in the calendar for an EFL Trophy fixture. This week, however, is a particularly bad moment for Swindon Town to squeeze in a game in the country’s least respected competition.
Bristol Rovers are in town for a match which almost nobody wants to watch, and in which almost nobody will want to play.
Swindon, lumbering around the foot of League Two, would have much preferred a week spent working towards the crucial trip to Cheltenham Town this weekend.
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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.