After reading some of the stuff posted on here about the Swim Away incident, i thought id put the record straight as I was one of the swimmers.
Thomas the Jack has said that the incident happened at 11pm
Thomas, it actually happened at around 4pm as the game was an early kick off and it was still light
There wasn't a large mob of us in the sea, just 9 of us in total with the oldest lad being 19 and the youngest 16.
A couple of Neath lads (one from Bridgend and the rest of us from Port Talbot)
We had chased a mob of Swansea out of the County Hall car park down to the beach but came unstuck when a larger group of Swansea's finest led by Tracey who was their top boy at the time appeared and backed us off toward the sea
We stood for as long as we could but had no chance against the 60 or so of Swansea's older lads.
We had 2 options, stand and take a battering or move back toward the sea.
We were charged at and ended up in the water up to our knees and were pelted with stones.
There was never a large mob of Cardiff in the sea just the 9 of us and we never actually swam as is told in Swansea folklore and also in Toozy's fictional book.
Hope this helps put the record straight