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Swansea City FC started life as Swansea Town in 1912. Swansea City and the fans are known as the ’Jacks’ and sometimes the ‘Swans.’ One explanation for the nickname is in recognition of a life-saving dog named ‘Swansea Jack’

Our personalised Swansea City football books reports on many of the lesser known moments, picking intriguing snapshots of a club through the decades. 1920 highlights include the 1926 & 1927 FA cup runs including victories over now defunct teams like South Shields.

The 1930s see some memorable reports of games where both the mighty and the local rivals are vanquished; a 3:0 win over the mighty Chelsea and a fascinating 3:2 win over Cardiff add up into a piece of extraordinary Swansea City memorabilia.

We skip forward to bring scintillating reports of the 1950s with large score lines over nostalgic football team names such as 7:1 over Port Vale, a 6:1 victory over Ipswich and a 7:0 victory over Derby. Other snippets of reports make up intriguing stories like the Swansea striker Ivor Allchurch (named amongst the 100 legends to mark the 100th season of league football in 1998) leaving to join Newcastle for a fee of £18,000 in 1958.

The 1960s brought European action and coverage against Motor Jena of Austria, 1961, and against Slavia Sofia in 1966 rate some reportage to present a thorough Swansea FC souvenir.

Promotion to the old Second Division is covered in a memorable reportage piece from 1979 and all the behind the scenes stories of that victory over Chesterfield make this the perfect Swansea FC gift idea.

The 1980’s and 1990’s saw the extremes of ups and downs and all are faithfully recorded in this insightful personalised Swansea City football book; 1985 and the club is wound up in the High Court with debts of almost 1.5 million it all looks bleak. Three days later and Swansea are given just 21 days to reform and start a new football life. 1994 and the epic victory to win the Autoglass trophy on penalties from Huddersfield is given the full treatment.

The glory of 2008 is covered with reports of the promotion to the Championship and winning the League One trophy at home gives a fullness of Swansea City history that a fan deserves.

Order your personalised Swansea City book and we’ll make it to order with your personalisation details including a name and a greeting. For a small fee you can gold emboss the cover with the recipient’s name and make this the ultimate football book for the Swansea City fan in your family.

Every season we bring up to date our version of the Swansea City football present and add even more memories to make this Swansea City football history come to life.

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