Author: Disabled Supporters Association
Coffee Morning at Verdi’s
We held our very first face to face DSA event since September 2020, when we held a coffee morning at Verdi’s Cafe in Mumbles on Tuesday, 20 July 2021.
We had a lovely morning and thankfully the weather was kind with it being a bright sunny day.
Thanks to everyone who supported us at the event and here are some pictures.
DSA Raffle Prize Draw
The DSA held the raffle draw this morning for a Swans shirt, which had been kindly donated by the trust.
The Trust holds a prize draw each month, and the May winner was from Norway (the first overseas member to win).
He asked if the Trust would donate the shirt to a deserving cause and the Trust donated to our DSA.
Kev Johns and Andy Godden kindly did the draw for us, and Paul Newman was the lucky winner.
The raffle raised £100.
Llongyfarchiadau Paul!
Here is the raffle winner, Paul Newman, proudly wearing his prize.
Swans DSA 2021 Player of the Season Winner Announced
The voting for the DSA player of the season has now closed, and the committee is pleased to announce that the winner is CONNOR ROBERTS.
We have purchased a trophy which will be engraved with Connor’s name.
Thank you very much to everyone who voted.
Vote for your Swans Player of the 90s
Following on from our “Players of the 80’s” where Alan Curtis was the winner thanks to our voting DSA members, we now invite you to vote for our “Players of the 90’s”.
To vote please view each of the player profiles below that we have selected for you all to vote on and send your choice of winner to us by emailing secswandsa@gmail.com to register your vote no later than Monday the 31st of May 2021 at 5pm.
We’re sure that you will agree that the 5 players listed are worthy nominees and hope that you will again vote for your favourite.
DSA Virtual Coffee Morning in April
The next Swans DSA virtual coffee morning will be held on Tuesday, 13 April at 11am with special guest Lee Trundle in attendance.
You can attend the coffee morning by joining the Zoom Meeting via the following link:
https://zoom.us/j/92671864552?pwd=T3BvM0tOeUorcDdMeXMwMGhkRWNrUT0
We hope you can join us!
Happy Birthday Willz and Ashleigh
As you know we normally wish our Members a Happy Birthday on our Facebook page, but as we are not using social media for the next 7 days in support of the stance taken by Swansea City Football Club, we’re sending birthday greetings via our website instead.
So we’d like to wish Willz Dewson and Ashleigh Salisbury a Happy Birthday and hope you both have a lovely day.
A special message from former Swan Andrea Orlandi
Former Swansea City player Andrea Orlandi has sent the Swansea City Disabled Supporters Association the following message of support.
Barcelona born Andrea was signed by the Swans in September 2007 by his compatriot Roberto Martínez.
During his 5 years at the club, Andrea made 72 appearances for the club, scoring 3 goals.
We look forward to welcoming Andrea back to the Liberty Stadium to meet the DSA and its members when it is safe to do so.
Supporting Level Playing Field’s Weeks of Action 2021
In order to support Level Playing Field’s Weeks of Action 2021, we asked our DSA members to send in selfies, which we put together to form a collage.
The club showed the collage on their social platforms during the Middlesbrough game on 6th March 2021.
Learn more about the Level Playing Field Weeks of Action 2021.
Alan Curtis to receive MBE
We are delighted to announce that Swans DSA President Alan Curtis, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.
The 66-year-old Swansea City legend, receives the award in recognition of his services to Welsh football in a playing and coaching career that has spanned over four decades.
Curtis, who now holds the role of honorary club president following his retirement from coaching in May 2019, represented the Swans during three separate spells during his playing career.
He scored 110 goals in over 400 appearances, and also won 35 caps for Wales, netting six times.
After hanging up his boots, Curtis also held roles as caretaker manager, assistant manager, first-team coach, loan player manager, head of youth development, youth coach, community officer and matchday host for Swansea City.
And Curtis was proud to receive an accolade that all connected with Swansea City will surely agree is richly deserved.
“It’s a great honour, I am totally surprised and taken aback by it, to be honest with you,” he said.
“I am really proud to accept the honour. I knew about it a month ago and the difficulty has been to keep it a secret.
“But there is an overwhelming sense of pride. It’s a terrific honour.
“I am just so grateful to have had the career I had, and to go that length of time means you can only thank all the players, staff and supporters, as well as your family.
“My only wish is that my parents were still alive, as I am sure they would have been bursting with pride.
“But it has been a great journey and a real privilege.”