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Saturday 21st November 2020 EFL Championship Liberty Stadium, Swansea. Kick off 3pm
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Latest Swansea City are keeping quiet on the extent of the injury to Andre Ayew, and any time he needs to recover. He returned to the treatment table after one game away with Ghana having scored two goals to clinch victory over Sudan. It is likely he will miss the game against Rotherham as will Ben Cabango and Morgan Gibbs-White.
Swansea City v Rotherham United Games won: 28 Games lost: 25 Games drawn: 25
Rotherham point of view Caz Neale writes Rotherham United’s next game in the Championship sees them travelling to the South West coast of Wales to take on Swansea City. April 2019 was the last time the pair met at the Liberty Stadium which ended up being a seven goal thriller. A long throw from Will Vaulks was cleared by the hosts but only back to the Millers Welsh midfielder who sent the ball back into the box for Michael Ihiekwe to touch it past Swans’ ‘keeper Kristoffer Nordfeldt and into the net. Oli McBurnie got an equaliser on thirty-six minutes but another long throw from Vaulks two minutes later found Matt Crooks who regained the Millers lead. Swansea came out the better in the second half and five minutes in got a second equaliser after Daniel James got past the Millers defence to send the ball to Barrie McKay who headed home. On sixty-nine minutes the hosts went in front for the first time in the game thanks to a George Byers shot that appeared to go in off the arm of Kyle Naughton and ten minutes later McBurnie curled his second and the Swans fourth into the net. But the Millers put up a fight and Vaulks shot went in from the underside of the crossbar with Nordfeldt having to make a good save minutes later from Michael Smith. The Millers lost four-three and left feeling angry that the hosts’ third goal had been allowed to stand.
The time before that the Millers were at the Liberty Stadium in the league was in League One two days before Christmas in 2006 when the game ended one-all. Eugen Bopp put the Millers in front eleven minutes into the second half but on the stroke of full time Adebayo Akinfenwa got an equaliser. The last time Rotherham beat Swansea at their home was in April 2006 when an own goal on sixteen minutes from Garry Monk and a goal fifteen minutes later from Gregor Robertson gave the Millers all points from this Easter Monday game.
The first time the teams met on Swansea soil was in the Old Division Two in December 1951 at Vetch Field. The hosts won five-nil on the day.
Let’s look back to 1988 Play off first leg,
15 May 1988 Swansea City 1—0 Rotherham United McCarthy 85' Vetch Field, Swansea Attendance: 9,148
Swansea held Rotherham to a draw in the away leg 1-1 and progressed to the final where the swans were triumphant 5-4 over two legs v Torquay.
What do we know about Rotherhams Rotherham are called the millers, which means they are windy and talk a lot of hot air. They are famous for having Howard Webb the referee as a fan, and a bloke from Muse. One of the dead Chuckle brothers supports Rotherham as does the one who is still alive. They are thought of as the most famous Rotherham supporters. Even though they are dead, or nearly dead, whichever one you are talking about. This is a picture of the Chuckle brothers yesterday
One eyed goalkeeper Gordon Banks was born in Rotherham, Gordon is thought of as one of the best goalkeepers of all time, and even when he had one eye like Herod he should have carried on because people said he was the best even with one arm tied behind his back, so one eye is nothing and it’s a lot smaller. Unfortunately he is dead now as well, but still probably better than Erwin Mulder. Another phenomenon of Rotherham is that David Seaman is also from this place. David was also a goalkeeper with girls hair and a deep voice like Pam the Butcher in Eastenders. David is best remembered for having long hair, and then when he got it cut nobody recognised him, even his wife, sometimes he would startle himself when he looked in the mirror. He thought another man was living in his house for two years until he realised another man was actually living in his house and interfering with Mrs Seaman on Saturday afternoons when David was being a goalie.
David Seaman with short hair
This is David when he had long hair
And finally, in 2008 the good people of Rotherham were the most overweight people in the country, or maybe even the world if Yorkshire is all you know. Fortunately The award-winning integrated obesity service in Rotherham was launched and was a great success. After only two years the service had been so successful the obesity rate increased by 14% and the amount of fast food outlets in the small town increased by over 50%. Of course this is now a world wide problem, unless of course you live in a country where there is little or no food like Barnsley or Forfar. By 2013 Rotherham had maintained its title with an ever increasing population of extra fat, and the most people with toes falling off outside of Towcester. In recent years this has got worse and more people now are not as fat as they were, so someone needs to have a word somewhere. Rotherham is the capital of Yorkshire and has been since time began, or when god invented grass even. When time was invented Rotherham was the testing area, everybody knew it was there, so millions of people from Farnborough and Jersey went there to see what time was all about. When they all left nobody said a word for years as they were so impressed. Unfortunately because nobody said anything it all came to nothing. The phrases ‘ I know’ ‘ Yes I know’ ‘I’ll tell thee’ and ‘'No' were all used first in Rotherham. The second phrase ‘Yes I know’ replaced ‘Aye I know’ on the 3rd of Match 1932. Strangely the word ‘whippet’ was banned in 1974 and the term ‘Leisure Centre’ replaced it.
This is a Rotherham whippet, you can see from its arched back and slightly peculiar facial expression the reason why it is now referred to as a Leisure Centre. Note also the third rear leg growing from its anus, this is merely to protect it from unwanted invasions from local folk
Well, that’s it, another foray as it were in to our opponents this weekend, some stuff you didn’t know included we are sure. Later on we will include up to date football news on the game but don’t tell anyone from Rotherham. They will probably already know.
If you are ever a visiting supporter of a team coming to Swansea and you are being truthfully documented on here - and are offended,tough, it’s your history, deal with it.
Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread & Cooper pre match on 14:15 - Nov 21 by KeithHaynes
Gyokeres is self-isolating in Sweden having returned a positive test whilst on international duty, while Garrick is also self-isolating and following healthcare guidelines.
Remember Boris wanting herd immunity just like Sweden, that didn't turn out well.
Continually being banned by Planet Swans for Porthcawl and then being reinstated.
Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 15:32 - Nov 21 by NotLoyal
Rotherham are appalling, clueless and slow.
And we have been very good, inventive (esp Dhanda) and pacey
Should be at least 2-0
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Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 15:51 - Nov 21 with 1195 views
Lowe needs taking aside and made to write the word COMPOSURE a million times. He might just learn what it means.
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Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 15:55 - Nov 21 with 1166 views
Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 15:51 - Nov 21 by builthjack
Lowe needs taking aside and made to write the word COMPOSURE a million times. He might just learn what it means.
He could do that or he could continue to put in excellent shifts and become the total package worth far more than the bargain 700k
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Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 15:56 - Nov 21 with 1158 views
Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 16:21 - Nov 21 by NotLoyal
Need hardening up in midfield, Palmer required.
Definitely
Missing Ayew big time this half, as focal point etc etc etc
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Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 16:37 - Nov 21 with 949 views
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Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 16:56 - Nov 21 with 851 views
We had three great chances to kill the game off. We need to be more clinical. We really missed ayew today. Overall we were far better than Rotherham who only attacking option was to hoof it.
I think it’s increasingly clear that if we are to do well and go up this year it’ll be because of our very strong defence rather than any attacking prowess.
I make that 6 clean sheets in 12 games so far. Not bad considering we don’t have a big strong keeper if you listen to the expert analysis on here.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 16:57 - Nov 21 by AnotherJohn
We played a very ordinary Rotherham today and were very very lucky to come out of the game with anything.
We played a typically robust Championship team and were unlucky to not coast to a 3-0 drubbing. A fixture we most probably would have lost last season.
Missing our talismanic world class leader and top goal scorer.
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