Monk led his Swansea City team mates to victory over Portsmouth in the last round and will look to repeat that tomorrow against Fulham – making him the first captain for over 40 years to lead the team into the quarter finals.<\/p>\n
And whilst to some it would be a shock, Monk is confident that his team can do the job asked of them and believes that the reality is it would not be as big a shock as some make out.<\/p>\n
Some of the bookmakers already have the Championship team down as favourites which is a massive compliment to the Swans but that is not something that the home team are taking as granted but there is a definite confidence shining through at the moment – as there should be after an unbeaten run stretching to almost three months.<\/p>\n
Monk told the Evening Post "The build-up and media attention we have had this week has shot through the roof<\/p>\n
"It shows how much this competition means to a lot of people — it is the best domestic competition in the world.<\/p>\n
"The FA Cup came down in the week and we had a chance to look at it.<\/p>\n
"We can't get too hyped up because you lose focus. We had the same kind of hype for the Cardiff game, but we kept a low profile as players and treated it as a normal game.<\/p>\n
"I know that's a bit boring to say, but it's the way we have to approach this kind of thing.<\/p>\n
"We have played against the likes of (Peter) Crouch and (Jermaine) Pennant — guys who have plied their trade in the top flight for years," said the centre-back.<\/p>\n
"It's the same with Andy Johnson and Zamora. It's going to be interesting but it's one that we will relish.<\/p>\n
"We want to test ourselves against the top players and this is a chance to do that — but we can't measure what we would be like in the top flight over one or two games.<\/p>\n
"On paper it would be an upset, but it wouldn't be a total surprise to me as we have a lot of belief in what we are doing."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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