Surfing For Fun

Wrexham unofficial web-site, The Webbed Robin

The Webbed Robin is not just a source of up-to-date news, but also a very useful reference guide. It keeps a record, for instance, of what it calls, ‘Wrexham AFC Related Publications’. This is a growing area, and the WR’s comprehensive bibliography makes interesting reading:

• The Robins’ Review
• The Sheeping Giant
• Red Passion (now on-line)
• Wrexham: A Complete Record 1872-1992 by Peter Jones
• Twenty-Two Foreigners in Funny Shorts: The Intelligent Fan’s Guide To Soccer And World Cup ’94 by Pete Davies
• Wrexham Football Club Pen Portraits by Don Meredith
• Wrexham AFC: An A-Z by Dean Hayes

Add to this the soon-to-be-published tome by Peter Jones and Gareth M.Davies, The Racecourse Robins from Adams to Youds, chuck in Ian Rush’s three books and the ‘unofficial’ biography of Mickey Thomas…and you’ve almost got a small bookshelf of red-and-white lit.

Swansea City unofficial web-site (http://www.prestel.co.uk/gmartin)

This is an impressive site and has already had 96,161 visitations. It’s extremely user-friendly and brimful of catchy graphics. The site boasts a massive array of sub-links: Press cuttings, Cybernotes, Match reports, Predictascore and Whispers (gossip). An obsessed Swan, Gary Martin, is the man responsible for the facility – which has been up and running since 1996.

Cyril the Swan is, predictably, an almost permanent presence on the pages – maybe the only other British club mascot in the RR elite league. The Swans-orientated gossip is intriguing: ‘SWANS CAN COUNT ON £250,000 CUP BONANZA’, ‘RACIST CHANTS FAN IS BARRED’ and ‘NICE SWAN CYRIL IS GETTING READY TO PARTY’. Good mascot, good web-site.