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The former Swansea City manager told the Evening Post "I will not mind one bit if I am no longer the only manager who has got Swansea into the top division<\/p>\n

"What we did is in the past. It was a like a magic carpet ride doing it in that amount of time, and I don't think it will ever happen again like that because of the finances in the game these days. <\/p>\n

"But that was 30 years ago and it's not about that any more.<\/p>\n

"The lads at Swansea now have done very well.<\/p>\n

"Brendan has introduced one or two important players to a squad who have been together for a while and you can see how confident they are.<\/p>\n

"Hopefully they can go out and play with that confidence at Wembley.<\/p>\n

"I watched Reading quite a bit at that stage," says former Wales<\/a> boss Toshack.<\/p>\n

"I remember going to see Reading play against Nottingham Forest because Chris Gunter, Robert Earnshaw andSimon Church were all involved.<\/p>\n

"It seemed to me as though what Brendan wanted didn't quite catch on at Reading, but it's been a different story at Swansea.<\/p>\n

"Swansea had been playing the kind of style he wants to play for a couple of years and that helped."<\/p>\n

Toshack believes Swansea's owners deserve a share of the praise for the success inspired by Rodgers — and the improvements made since they ousted Tony Petty almost a decade ago.<\/p>\n

"You have to give the chairman and the people running Swansea great credit.<\/p>\n

"They have run a tight ship, but they have chosen the right people to manage the football club. They have kept things going forward.<\/p>\n

"They go about their business quietly and there's nothing going on behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

"Really Swansea are an example to everybody both on the field and off the field."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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