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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.
Normal service resumed A good half and then depressingly poor and hanging on against a team at the foot of the tab land making changes too late to be effective other than in adding extra bodies to the defend. 4th yes but lucky to be there. When we dated playing football we were looking comfortabl but then it entire all Cooper.
Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 00:23 - Nov 22 by Badlands
Normal service resumed A good half and then depressingly poor and hanging on against a team at the foot of the tab land making changes too late to be effective other than in adding extra bodies to the defend. 4th yes but lucky to be there. When we dated playing football we were looking comfortabl but then it entire all Cooper.
After the Norwich away game I thought they were lucky too mind.
Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 23:33 - Nov 21 by NotLoyal
Not a fan of Palmer, bit like a cheap Leroy fer.
Only he does a lot more work than Fer ever did. I could never see what Fer brought to the table , he had his moments but was hardly consistent for us. If you were going to say a cheap JDG I’d agree!
Palmer has worked his b*lls off for us whenever he’s come on. Very happy with him TBH.
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Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 07:57 - Nov 22 by Brynmill_Jack
Only he does a lot more work than Fer ever did. I could never see what Fer brought to the table , he had his moments but was hardly consistent for us. If you were going to say a cheap JDG I’d agree!
Palmer has worked his b*lls off for us whenever he’s come on. Very happy with him TBH.
I rated far always put himself about and could play too
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Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 23:55 - Nov 21 by Dr_Winston
If Bidwell hadn't metamorphosed into Roberto Carlos we might have seen more of him.
Manning can play central as well though. Again, it's all about having alternatives and depth for a long season to come. In all positions we've got options, except perhaps up front.
Fair play , a good analogy that would have made me spit out my tea if it had been brought to me on time !
Bidwell has been excellent but he seemed to get further forward when MGW was ruling the midfield for us. He has been making telling contributions but when he gets parallel with the box his passes turn into assists. Hopefully we get MGW back for early January
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Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 10:33 - Nov 22 by angryjack
Watch him off the ball let's players run off his shoulder and only chases when they gone often too late when pass gone..liability
Crimes played well again. Made more tackles than anyone on the pitch. Also made more tackles than anyone in the championship last season. He makes our team tick
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Swansea City v Rotherham United : Matchday Thread Team News Covid strikes on 10:51 - Nov 22 by Nortbankboy
Crimes played well again. Made more tackles than anyone on the pitch. Also made more tackles than anyone in the championship last season. He makes our team tick
Especially when he’s not playing
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