{"id":16779,"date":"2009-10-04T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16779"},"modified":"2020-10-04T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T07:23:07","slug":"britton-its-like-theres-a-jinx-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/10\/04\/britton-its-like-theres-a-jinx-on-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Britton: It&#8217;s Like There&#8217;s A Jinx On Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans midfielder was in good form yesterday as the team recorded another win by beating QPR 2-0 at the Liberty to enter the next international break in a decent position despite the injury problems that have beset them this season.<\/p>\n<p>That jinx has accounted for Lopez, Allen, Pratley, Bodde and Britton himself already at some stage this season and that is just looking at what you would class as the leading 5 midfielders at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Wales on Sunday, Britton said \u201cThere seems like there\u2019s a jinx on us at the moment<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it looked like things were coming back together then Ferrie Bodde was ruled out long-term and Joe Allen broke down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s not one thing it\u2019s another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re getting to the point where we\u2019ll be back to almost full strength but it does seem like it\u2019s taking forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you do worry that it might end up costing us because it\u2019s been freakish with the number of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have a big squad and we\u2019ve held our own and we know we can be stronger when everyone\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, even though we\u2019re into double figures in the season I don\u2019t think you can\u2019t judge us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the injuries we\u2019ve had you can\u2019t do that properly because we\u2019re not at our full strength.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you can judge the direction we\u2019re going in and I think everyone can see we\u2019re not far away from everything really clicking for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Britton is also in the middle of negotiations over a new contract and he added \u201cThere\u2019s an offer on the table. I\u2019ve spoken to the club about different things in the contract<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I\u2019m waiting for the club to come back; the ball is in their court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll see how things develop but I\u2019m definitely happy at the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a situation with me being away from my daughter, who lives in London and it\u2019s difficult because I don\u2019t get to see her as much as I would like. But my dream is still to play in the Premier League and I want to do that here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen talks drag on it can affect your form and perhaps it did in the past when kenny Jackett was manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m a little more experienced now than before. I know you have to concentrate on your football and I believe the rest will follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">SOURCE: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swansea-city-fc\/2009\/10\/04\/britton-pleads-with-fans-to-stay-patient-as-swans-attempt-to-ride-out-injury-jinx-91466-24845413\/\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swansea-city-fc\/2009\/10\/04\/britton-pleads-with-fans-to-stay-patient-as-swans-attempt-to-ride-out-injury-jinx-91466-24845413\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- End of three-col div --><!-- end of article --><!-- xc:l-1 dirpath=\/src\/webroot\/icwales2\/footballnation\/swansea-city-fc\/page.cfm --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans midfielder was in good form yesterday as the team recorded another win by beating QPR 2-0 at the Liberty to enter the next international break in a decent position despite the injury problems that have beset them this season. That jinx has accounted for Lopez, Allen, Pratley, Bodde and Britton himself already at [&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-16779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779","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=16779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}