The article that appeared in the Lincoln City programme on Saturday 8/11/97 is reproduced here.
As promised in the Hartlepool programme on Tuesday, we continue our "Jack Outpost" feature, and today we hear from John Campbell of Sydney, Australia, who gives his down under view of the Swans:
I left Waunarlwydd for Portsmouth in 1985 for work reasons after having seen the 'glory years' of Toshack and those all too short years in the first division - when the Swans humbled the likes of Man Utd, Arsenal & Liverpool!
Then 4 years ago, I was fortunate to get a transfer to Sydney. Sydney is a beautiful place - but I desperately missed 4 things - family, friends, the Gower and football. Here in Oz, football has been enjoying a healthy surge - helped in part by the appointment of Terry Venables as the Australian manager.
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But anyway, when we got here the only football news I could get would be a couple of paragraphs in Mondays newspapers (because of the time difference the results didn't get in the papers until Monday) about the Premier League along with the results/tables of all the leagues - which was the only information I had on Swansea City.
Then we were connected to the internet! One day I did a search on Swansea City (more in hope than anything else) and up came Gary's site! What a revelation - at the time Frank Burrows had just gone, the Thompson/Cullis fiasco was in full flow and Molby was just about to appear - suddenly I now knew on a day to day basis exactly what was happening. I could get the result and a match report and the latest gossip within hours of the match ending - what a difference! |
The other major benefit is the mailing list - no longer am I the oddball in the office who supports Swansea City (Oh, you must be the one!!) but on a daily basis we 'listers' can discuss, condemn, praise, suggest, argue and generally express our support for the team we love. I've never met these people but they have become an important part of my life.
So, while I may be thousands of miles away from the Vetch, the internet and the Swansea City web sites make me feel much closer. Come on you Swans!
ps There is another Swansea on the coast about 100 miles north of Sydney - but nowhere as nice as the original!
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