{"id":15757,"date":"2008-12-05T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=15757"},"modified":"2020-12-05T06:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T06:19:57","slug":"trundle-relishing-swansea-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2008\/12\/05\/trundle-relishing-swansea-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Trundle Relishing Swansea Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Swansea City striker will line up against the club he was adored at for the first time since his million pound move last summer to Ashton Gate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be strange,\u201d Trundle told the Western Mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be strange just because it\u2019s going to mean playing against a club that means so much to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I can say this 100 per cent, there\u2019s no way I\u2019d ever celebrate if I scored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be walk back to the halfway line and start again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a professional footballer, you have to do a job, but that doesn\u2019t stop you having feelings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Swansea City as a club so there\u2019s no way that I\u2019d rub it into the fans that have meant so much to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I know sometimes you can say you are looking forward to the match \u2013 but at the moment I\u2019m about 50-50.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so pleased to see the lads do well last year and there\u2019s no regrets over leaving because of that,\u201d said Trundle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball\u2019s not about ifs or buts \u2013 when chances come up that are too good to turn down, you don\u2019t turn them down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I never got a chance to say goodbye because the move happened in pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo hopefully I will get a good reception because Swansea is a club I love and the fans meant a big part to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been tough,\u201d said Trundle, who has seen Adebola, John, Nicky Maynard, Darren Byfield and John Akinde all added to Johnson\u2019s forward line since his big-money arrival. \u201cI\u2019ve been in and out of the side this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve only started four games and played in different positions and it has been hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been difficult, but I hope I get the chance to start on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwansea are doing really well, but I always knew that would be the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey like to get the ball down and play football. That\u2019s the way Roberto has got them playing and I knew they would do well this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still speak to a few of the lads. I was there for four years and had four great years, so I made a lot of friends, in and out of football<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed my football there, I enjoyed my life there. So I would never, never rule out a chance to go back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Swansea City striker will line up against the club he was adored at for the first time since his million pound move last summer to Ashton Gate. \u201cIt will be strange,\u201d Trundle told the Western Mail. \u201cIt will be strange just because it\u2019s going to mean playing against a club that means so [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15757","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=15757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}