I FEEL I must write regarding Swindon Town. They remain a team I adore and have watched from an early age and have always fascinated me.

Shortly after the war, my parents moved to Margate and I went to school in Ramsgate, having passed the eleven plus but got soaked playing football and contracted rheumatic fever which kept me in bed for a year and put paid to the idea of playing football when I was older.

We moved back to Swindon and stayed with my grandparents for two years and I started watching the Town. I wrote to them asking if they could send me some programmes, and to my delight they sent me some and a 1951 handbook with pictures and various anecdotes for nothing.

The Town always had good treatment from the press and their correspondents. I used to watch them regularly.

The football league was different in those days, Div 1, Div 2, Div 3 South, and Div 4 North. If you finished bottom, you were always voted back in the league.

I can remember Ernie Hunt scoring at Scunthorpe to win promotion. I watched the Town win three times at Wembley over the years; Arsenal in the League Cup and Sunderland and Leicester. My seat at Wembley cost £3 – a bit different to the game against Preston.

The club has always been reasonable with the supporters and kept them informed as much as possible. I find Mr Power has got the interest of the supporters at heart. I can see us in the Conference League within two years. I hope I am wrong.

P CRINKS Groundwell Road Swindon