{"id":17261,"date":"2010-03-26T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17261"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"giggs-a-welsh-promotion-would-be-excellent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/03\/26\/giggs-a-welsh-promotion-would-be-excellent\/","title":{"rendered":"Giggs &#8211; A Welsh Promotion Would Be Excellent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of a Welsh club in the Premier League next season remains a very distinct possibility as both Swansea and Cardiff currently occupy a Championship play off spot.<\/p>\n<p>Three or four more wins each and the two sides will go into the lottery of a four team play off with the prize for the winners a place amongst the Premier League elite for next season.<\/p>\n<p>And to Welsh legend Giggs, that remains very much something he would love to see as he contemplates another year at the home of the Premier League champions.<\/p>\n<p>Giggs said &ldquo;It&rsquo;s great to see two Welsh clubs challenging for promotion, fantastic for the bigger picture of Welsh football. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The more Welsh players we have at the highest level the better for the national side, as we are a small nation compared to the rest.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cardiff City are still my second team and I also look out for Swansea&rsquo;s results when they come through on a Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Imagine the two clubs in the Premiership, that would be brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cardiff have gone through something of a dodgy time recently, but they have started to turn things around by beating Watford and Coventry.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hopefully they will continue winning until the end of the season. I hope Cardiff and Swansea each go up, but at least one of them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It would be fantastic if we had a Welsh club in the Premiership.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of a Welsh club in the Premier League next season remains a very distinct possibility as both Swansea and Cardiff currently occupy a Championship play off spot. Three or four more wins each and the two sides will go into the lottery of a four team play off with the prize for the [&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-17261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261","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=17261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}