{"id":15238,"date":"2008-08-13T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=15238"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"macdonald-fulfills-swansea-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2008\/08\/13\/macdonald-fulfills-swansea-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald Fulfills Swansea Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MacDonald was on target twice last night as the Swans progressed to the second round of the Carling Cup with a 2-0 win against Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>He scored once in each half to take the Swans to the next stage &#8211; his first two goals in the senior side following some impressive displays in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>And he told the official site after the game that the goals were the fulfillment of a childhood dream and that plenty of his friends and family were watching the moment <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ever since I was a kid I&#39;ve dreamed about scoring for the Swans,&#39;&#39; explained the local Blaenymaes product via swanseacity.net. &quot;I suppose it&#39;s been a long time fulfilling that dream.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But I&#39;m delighted. I had a load of family and friends watching the game and I&#39;m just pleased for them and the fans.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;ve been practicing my finishing a lot in training and I&#39;d like to thank the staff for all the time they&#39;ve devoted to me.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The first goal was a tap-in, but I was really pleased with the second one. Now I&#39;ve just got to keep my head down and keep working hard.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;d love to get more games under my belt and score more goals, but the competition within the squad is tough and I&#39;ve got to keep taking my chance when it comes.&#39;&#39;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacDonald was on target twice last night as the Swans progressed to the second round of the Carling Cup with a 2-0 win against Brentford. He scored once in each half to take the Swans to the next stage &#8211; his first two goals in the senior side following some impressive displays in recent months. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}