Swansea City: Fans' return to stadium 'like Christmas'

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Six weeks since they were last in the stands, football fans say they're excited to be back.

Lyn Davies, from Skewen, said: "It's always nice to get down to the stadium to watch them, but it's been a while and I'm really excited - for everyone.

"I think it makes a tremendous difference... fingers crossed there'll be enough today to do the job for us."Paul Barrett, secretary of the Swansea City Supporters Trust, said he thought it was unfair fans in England could still attend games while fans in Wales could not He added people "accept the situation as it is - we've been in this for two years now," but that it was disappointing to go back to the situation whereby England was allowed to carry on and Wales weren't, which I didn't quite agree with personally"."All the players, every club, every manager will tell you that we are the 12th man - and we've got 16,000 people singing Hymns and Arias and I think it makes a hell of a difference to the players on the field.

Kelly Hennessey was happy to be in the stands with her family, but after suffering loss from Covid she understood the need for the ban

 

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