{"id":16118,"date":"2009-02-22T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16118"},"modified":"2021-02-22T08:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:07:40","slug":"hodgson-prepares-the-fulham-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/02\/22\/hodgson-prepares-the-fulham-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Hodgson Prepares The Fulham Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fulham manager will welcome Swansea City to Craven Cottage on Tuesday looking to take his team into the quarter finals of the FA Cup and a tie with Manchester United in the process.<\/p>\n<p>And despite being the favourites to take that quarter final place, Hodgson is worried that the game comes a little over two days after they take on West Brom at the same venue this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that playing Sunday and Tuesday has given the Swans the advantage in the tie and he told News of the World &#8220;It bothers me why we have to play on Sunday and again the following Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our chances of getting through against Swansea have been severely hampered &#8211; that turnaround has given our opponents a big advantage.\u00a0\u00a0 I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m particularly delighted about the situation at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll have to concentrate on West Brom and then do our best against Swansea<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I wouldn&#8217;t be putting too much money on the result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In perspective the Swans have an additional 22 and a half hours to prepare for the game.\u00a0\u00a0 Excuses already?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fulham manager will welcome Swansea City to Craven Cottage on Tuesday looking to take his team into the quarter finals of the FA Cup and a tie with Manchester United in the process. And despite being the favourites to take that quarter final place, Hodgson is worried that the game comes a little over [&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-16118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118","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=16118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}