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<\/p>\nThe Swansea City vice captain has his own song where Swans fans dream of a team of Alan Tates and you can even buy a t-shirt proclaiming just that.<\/p>\n
But while the song may have taken off, Tatey himself is not quite so sure that the team would be that successful<\/p>\n
“I’m not sure that a team of Alan Tates would actually be much good but I love it when the fans sing it \u2014 it makes me laugh,” Tate told the Evening Post.<\/p>\n
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“The Swansea fans have been great to me ever since I first came down here and it’s nice for any player to hear them singing his name.<\/p>\n
“But I don’t know how many results a team of Alan Tates would get.<\/p>\n
“We’d try hard, that’s for sure, but we probably wouldn’t be that pretty to watch.<\/p>\n
“I’m not bad in goal and I’ve played all across the back four, so we might get the odd clean sheet.<\/p>\n
“But I’m not sure what would happen when we went forward.<\/p>\n
“There might be a couple of long-range efforts, and we might score one goal every season or two.<\/p>\n
“We would be closing down all the time and there would be plenty of effort and tackles going in, but our finishing wouldn’t be up to much.<\/p>\n
“I think the fans know that there will be nobody trying harder than I do on the pitch,” Tate says.<\/p>\n
“Yes, I will come up against better players than me at times, but I don’t think I’ll ever face someone who has got a bigger heart.<\/p>\n
“The desire to do well is a big thing for me and I think the fans recognise that.<\/p>\n
“To have the penalty retaken at Plymouth was really disappointing, as was the fact that the second rebound dropped straight back to their player,” Tate concedes.<\/p>\n
“Anywhere else and we would have cleared it and been celebrating the win we deserved.<\/p>\n
“You don’t mind the Newcastle equaliser as much, because that came from a good cross and a good header.<\/p>\n
“But it’s frustrating to have lost four points over the two games, because they would have put us in with a shout of automatic promotion.<\/p>\n
“As it is at the moment, we are still scrapping to secure a play-off place.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got Derby and then Peterborough left in February and then we’ve got seven games in March<\/p>\n
“Seven in one month is ridiculous really, but we have to deal with it because March will go a long way towards deciding where we end up.<\/p>\n
“Apart from Christmas, this is going to be the most important period in our season and we just have to hope that we have everyone fit.”<\/p>\n