Swansea City v Brentford – repeat the magic for us Kev

Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 10:30
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Wembley Stadium.ย  May 30th 2011.ย  ย Swansea City v Reading.ย  ย The EFL Championship playoff final.ย  ย The day legends were made and the day that a certain stadium announcer wrote himself into Swansea City folklore with the speech that spurred us onto a famous promotion winning afternoon.

“That’s nice they have a song from Glee” was a line that will always stick in my mind together with “This is our day” which of course turned into a prophecy as it definitely was our day as a hat-trick from Scott Sinclair and a goal from Stephen Dobbie gave us the title of the first Welsh club ever to reach the Premier League.

Now, ten years on we have a chance to repeat that feat and we are all looking to King Kev for his words of wisdom before this game as well.ย  Kev got a deserved and warm welcome back to the Liberty on Saturday evening and surely will be in attendance at Wembley on Saturday although we don’t know yet if we will have another magical speech but we hope so.

If you cut Kevin Johns open he would bleed black and white.ย  Swansea City have been a massive part of his life and he has been a massive part of Swansea City.ย  As he spoke that magical afternoon at Wembley, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and as we sung the Swans song after the speech then surely nothing could go wrong.ย  ย I knew then his words would come true and less than two hours later they did.

I have known Kev for many years and I am certain that he will be preparing some words for Saturday whether they will be heard at Wembley remains to be seen but we want him to do it, it wouldn’t be a play-off final without him.ย  It’s over to you Kev!

Images courtesy of Getty Images, Athena Picture Agency and Swansea City Football Club.

Phil Sumbler

Been watching the Swans since the very late 1970s and running the Planet Swans website (in all its current and previous guises since the summer of 2001 As it stood JackArmy.net was right at the forefront of some of the activity against Tony Petty back in 2001, breaking many of the stories of the day as fans stood against the actions where the local media failed. Was involved with the Swans Supporters Trust from 2005, for the large part as Chairman before standing down in the summer of 2020.

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