Swindon Town’s display at Fleetwood Town put them seventh in the table this calendar year and has shown what they could have been capable of.

Sat worrying about potentially getting a sunburn in the Parkside Stand as Swindon decimated a side who had come into the game off a big week and with the outside hope of a playoff run brought a strange mix of feelings. The first one, obviously, was jubilation, as you would have to go back to 1951 to find a league away win by a bigger margin. Something that would have seemed at all possible on that frostbitten night in Colchester back in December, watching a very different 4-0, when my principal concern was how quickly I could get out of there.

There was so much right about the performance from Swindon: they were clinical, they pressed high and gave very little away, and they outworked their opponents even though they had more on the line. The players who........

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