{"id":16885,"date":"2009-11-10T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16885"},"modified":"2020-11-09T20:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:42:26","slug":"team-had-to-come-first-says-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/11\/10\/team-had-to-come-first-says-skipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Had To Come First Says Skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City captain was a late withdrawal from the team that beat Cardiff City at the Liberty 3-2 on the weekend but he says he had to do it for the interests of the team.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking via the club&#8217;s official website, Monk said &#8220;I have been carrying the calf problem for a while, but managed to get through the game at Scunthorpe last week<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It felt fine in training during the build up to the Cardiff game and I didn&#8217;t think there was going to be a problem, especially with the international break coming up to fully recover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I felt the calf really tighten up during the warm up before the game. I had to make a decision. I could have tried to run it off or risk coming off after 15 or 20 minutes; by which time I could have given a goal away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the end there was only one thing to do; I had to put the team first and pull out altogether.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was gutted not to be part of it, but the team comes first and, while it was hard to watch the game from the sidelines, I was absolutely overjoyed to see the boys come away with the victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The spirit they showed, especially when Cardiff came back to 2-2, was tremendous. It made me very proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City captain was a late withdrawal from the team that beat Cardiff City at the Liberty 3-2 on the weekend but he says he had to do it for the interests of the team. Speaking via the club&#8217;s official website, Monk said &#8220;I have been carrying the calf problem for a while, but [&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-16885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885","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=16885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}