December must bring more cheer than jeers or it may just guarantee Swindon Town's silent plight
02.12.24, 14:31 Updated 05.06.25, 20:10 9 Minute Read
Sam Morshead
For the first time in the club’s history, Swindon Town will go into a league match occupying a place in the relegation zone of the EFL’s bottom tier.
Carlisle United’s draw with Crewe on Saturday has dropped the Robins into 23rd in League Two ahead of the trip to Colchester United on Tuesday (December 3).
It is a historic, catastrophic low for a team with a 104-year Football League membership.
While they finished rock bottom of the old, regional third division in the 1950s, prompting a requirement to seek reelection, not in the nearly 40 years since the establishment of automatic relegation from the EFL has this club sunk this far.
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