from today's "The Athletic" email
"It is hard to know where to start with Swindon Town, but the story about the players taking their own warm-up while listening to the public address system in the hope that they might find out the team that way feels like as good a place as any.
Swindon were not just sleepwalking towards relegation last season, they were sliding out of League One in the most shambolic fashion possible. “The only time I’d seen preparations like it was Sunday League when you’re walking your dog in the park,” one of the players told The Athletic.
The money at the club had dried up to such an extent that they ran low on bandages and tape in the medical room. Some players ended up offering to cover the cost of their own MRI scans, while GPS vests were discarded because nobody knew how to download the data after the strength and conditioning coach left. Even making up post-match protein shakes became a problem."