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HOW LOU REVIVED ROBINS

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
2 June 2025

Swindon Town – The Lou Macari Years, by David Wallis, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £19.99

RECENT seasons haven’t been too kind for Swindon Town, but a glance back to the past highlights that fortunes can change quickly in football.
Author David Wallis transports us back to the mid-1980s, a time when the Robins were again plying their trade in the Football League’s bottom tier, then known as the Fourth Division.
Swindon were hardly pulling up any trees either, finishing the 1983-84 season a lowly 17th. But then came the introduction of Lou Macari as...

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