“No – but what a brilliant professional”

Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 7:00
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Jay Fulton was the match winner last night as he struck his first league goal of the season to cap a magnificent fightback from the Swans that secured all three points against Reading and kept us very much in the promotion hunt.

Fulton’s strike from the best part of thirty yards out was drilled into the bottom corner of the net past the helpless arm of Lumley and capped a great night for the Swans on an evening where we could easily have been dead and buried at 2-0 down.

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Fulton’s part in the team this season is obvious and credit to both manager and player for firstly giving him the chance and then taking it with a midfield partnership with Matt Grimes now looking one of the key reasons for our current success.

Goalscoring wise though he may not have contributed many but last night’s could not have come at a better time as we pushed for the winner although Russell Martin did confess after the game that he did not want Fulton to shoot.

“Gilly was laughing with me when we celebrated, I shouted โ€˜noโ€™ as he hit it,” Martin said after the game. “Jay’s got that in his locker.

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“I’m grateful to Jay for how he’s been since the start of this season. What a brilliant professional and a brilliant man. He’s turning into the player we thought he was before we came.

“It was really difficult for him last season. I’m delighted for him, and he has such a good respect from everyone at the club. He has real quality, he’s been immense for us. He deserves that, I can’t speak highly enough of Jay as a player or as a person.”

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  1. Was always good enough for us as a championship team .It was only one of Martinโ€™s stubborn moods that kept him out .He loves living here and has been in Swansea nearly ten years .Those are the sort of players you need – the ones who give everything week after week and never throw their toys out.Top man

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