{"id":16759,"date":"2009-09-28T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16759"},"modified":"2020-09-28T08:11:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T07:11:32","slug":"trundle-ive-been-waiting-a-long-time-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/09\/28\/trundle-ive-been-waiting-a-long-time-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Trundle: I&#8217;ve Been Waiting A Long Time For That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trundle slotted home a second half penalty for his first Swansea goal in more than two years as he opened the scoring against Sheffield United, helping the Swans to a 2-1 win in the process.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier than planned introduction into the action thanks to the injury to Ferrie Bodde, Trundle played in an unfamiliar role in midfield but still had enough presence to gain and score the penalty that broke the deadlock.<\/p>\n<p>And as he celebrated in front of the East Stand before a public kissing of the badge display, there was little doubt that Trundle was back at the club he has always held close to his heart since his first arrival in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game to the Western Mail, Trundle said \u201cEveryone wants to see the team improve and progress<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first half especially wasn\u2019t good, and when things are like that you can feel a bit of tension with the fans with every stray pass or bad touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they\u2019ve had every right to feel frustrated because they\u2019ve all paid to come and see us play. We\u2019ve not delivered for them, they\u2019ve not seen us win at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always going to be like that when that happens, but wins can do wonders for confidence and you can really build on that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know we can grind out a result against a good side when we have to. But we\u2019ve shown how well we can play in early games so it\u2019s about getting the right balance between the two now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting a long time to do that,\u201d he smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about scoring that goal for ages, even before I came back. When it to happened it all came out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as I got brought down all I had in my head was \u2018goal\u2019 \u2013 all the stuff about us not scoring for a while didn\u2019t come into it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t think about the pressure of not winning at home this year when you get a chance like that, you just think about putting it away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd getting a kiss of Gorka (Pintado) helped settle me down anyway. I thought he was coming up to me after the foul to take the ball so I was getting ready for a fight!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trundle slotted home a second half penalty for his first Swansea goal in more than two years as he opened the scoring against Sheffield United, helping the Swans to a 2-1 win in the process. An earlier than planned introduction into the action thanks to the injury to Ferrie Bodde, Trundle played in an unfamiliar [&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-16759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759","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=16759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}