{"id":16329,"date":"2009-05-03T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16329"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"martinez-happy-if-cardiff-city-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/05\/03\/martinez-happy-if-cardiff-city-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez Happy If Cardiff City Succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City manager brings down the curtain on the season of Championship football today at the Liberty with the Swans secured of a Top 8 poisition.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Yorkshire, nearest rivals Cardiff City go in search of the point that will ensure their appearance in the end of season play offs with a&nbsp;1 in 4 chance of reaching the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>And while that may not be something that too many in South West Wales wish for Cardiff, it is not something that concerns Roberto who told Wales on Sunday &ldquo;Cardiff City are a Welsh club and in that respect we have a similar responsibility in terms of improving the standard of Welsh football<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need to give John Toshack the best possible players.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You always work together in that area, so success coming to Cardiff comes to Wales and come to Swansea City.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So you always want teams in your own area to do well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Roberto has been linked with moves away from the club this summer &#8211; speculation that will probably increase as clubs look for their summer changes and on that front he said &ldquo;In any job, when you hear complimentary comments it does bring a smile on your face<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That said, in football you are only three defeats away from critical comments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But look, any compliment that comes my way should really go to the people who appointed me in the first place.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">SOURCE: <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/cardiff-city-fc\/2009\/05\/03\/mart-roars-on-his-rivals-91466-23528187\/\"><font size=\"1\">http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/cardiff-city-fc\/2009\/05\/03\/mart-roars-on-his-rivals-91466-23528187\/<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City manager brings down the curtain on the season of Championship football today at the Liberty with the Swans secured of a Top 8 poisition. Meanwhile in Yorkshire, nearest rivals Cardiff City go in search of the point that will ensure their appearance in the end of season play offs with a&nbsp;1 in [&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-16329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16329","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=16329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}