{"id":984,"date":"2021-02-19T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/?p=984"},"modified":"2021-02-21T14:53:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:53:22","slug":"opening-salvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/2021\/02\/opening-salvo\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Salvo"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Opening Salvo!<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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By ATFV Online Editor Nigel Davies <\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Hello and welcome to the (belated) third edition of ATFV Online – the fanzine with more bytes than a Mike Tyson fight, more hits than Welsh football fan band The Barry Horns but less virus than a Microsoft Windows new release…<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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It’s been a long time since the second experimental issue of the new online version of ATFV<\/strong><\/span> came out – over 12 months in fact!<\/p>

A combination of the Covid enforced shutdown of sport coupled with a a loss of love for football over that period is part of the reason behind the long hiatus.<\/p>

Add in the stress and pressures of my ‘Day Job’ as the Covid crisis has engulfed the city, the country and the world, and a delay was inevitable.<\/p>

In fact the last few weeks as I’ve worked on this new issue has reminded me why I kept putting it off…it’s been really difficult trying to combine working on the job that pays me a wage (and boy do I know that I’m luckier than most to have one of those right now) and the demands of putting something like ATFV<\/span><\/strong> together.<\/p>

In the old days I had a strict print deadline and about \u00a3700 of my own money at stake in printing costs, and that acted as a galvanising force to make me get the job done.<\/p>

Nowadays, with this new fangled web version, it is all too easy to put things off, procrastinate, change the planned content on an almost daily basis.<\/p>

It’s something I’ve got to come to terms with and get my head around – otherwise it will be another 12 months before you get to read issue 4!<\/p>

I’m hoping you will find this issue worth the wait though.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We’ve got some terrific content from some cracking contributors – the usual suspects of Chris Leadbeater, Martin Jones and Steve Carroll are joined by Wales Online columnist Guto Llewellyn and Supporters Trust Chairman Andrew Godden in these electronic pages.<\/p>

This issue also sees the Lazarus like return of ATFV<\/strong><\/span> “founding father” Phil Sumbler, the man who started this publication all those many years ago.<\/p>

Phil’s article\u00a0Back To Our Roots<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is full of positivity – and considering he was Chairman of the Supporters Trust during the bleak times since the acrimonious sale of the club I deem that pretty significant.<\/p>

It matches the rest of this issue which is, with the exception of one article I’ve written about the club’s American owners, overwhelmingly positive and supportive of the club.<\/p>

And boy does it feel good to be back writing in that way about Swansea City Football Club.<\/p>

It is fully deserved too as the club is much more stylish on the pitch and much more in tune with supporters off it.<\/p>

Fair play to former Chairman Trevor Birch and his replacement Julian Winter for overseeing the gradual reset that has brought this club back in tune with its fan base!<\/p>

And on that positive note I shall sign off the Salvo and let you enjoy this new issue of ATFV<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Opening Salvo! By ATFV Online Editor Nigel Davies Hello and welcome to the (belated) third edition of ATFV Online – the fanzine with more bytes than a Mike Tyson fight, more hits than Welsh football fan band The Barry Horns but less virus than a Microsoft Windows new release… It’s been a long time since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atfv.co.uk\/fanzine1-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}