Swindon set to be swept aside by on-a-roll City

SO, farewell Blackpool. Not so long ago, with the zany Ian Holloway at the helm, you brightened up our Premier League weekends.

Now, ignominy of ignominies, you’re heading for League One. Gone by Easter. Tailed off by virtue of Rotherham winning a game. The ultimate indignity.

To be replaced by? Bristol City, obviously. Steve Cotterill’s charges have been heading for the line hands and heels and it’s hard to see anything tripping them up.

But that’s not to say they won’t want to put one over on Swindon, one of their nearest and not-so-dearest, in what promises to be a nice and fiery West Country showdown in front of Sky’s cameras.

I’ve liked Swindon all season long. They’ve made me some cash and they play football the right way (though I’m not sure what the wrong way is. Wearing blindfolds perhaps? Or using a ping pong ball?)

Luckily, they do neither of those things and by trying to pass the ball around and score goals they qualify for the ‘playing football the right way’ award from any commentator who gets to visit the County Ground.

Unfortunately for Swindon, the MK Dons seem to like to play football the right way as well. And on Saturday they did it particularly well, better than Swindon in fact, to the tune of a 3-0 drubbing of Mark Cooper’s men.

Bristol City, who have never been accused, to my knowledge, of playing football the right way but are winning the league by a mile (I’m guessing they’ll take that at Ashton Gate), are unbeaten for what seems like an eternity and can keep that run going with another win.