{"id":17524,"date":"2010-08-23T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17524"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"monk-stunned-by-swans-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/08\/23\/monk-stunned-by-swans-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk Stunned By Swans Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City captain could not believe that the Swans had failed to turn their dominace to a win at Norwich &#8211; going down to two late goals after a David Cotterill missed penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Monk told the Western Mail: &ldquo;Football is a mad, mad game sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There is no justice sometimes. Everyone is a bit shell-shocked about how we lost the game. In the second half there was only one team who were looking to win the game, that was us.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think their players or the crowd could quite believe they won it. They looked like they were just happy to get to the end.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s ridiculous that we came away with nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The keeper should have gone,&rdquo; said Monk. &ldquo;Scott was straight through on goal, his touch was a bit wide of goal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But I think the rule is he was in on goal, so it should have been a sending-off.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At the time we were just happy we had the penalty with a few minutes to go, if we score it it&rsquo;s game over.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I said to the ref he should have been sent off, but he said he took his touch wide.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Then in the build-up to the second it was a blatant handball before the goal, one of the most blatant you&rsquo;ll ever see, but the ref played on.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If we play like that every week we are going to win a lot more games than we lose,&rdquo; said Monk. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re good at bouncing back and we have to make sure we do that on Tuesday.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City captain could not believe that the Swans had failed to turn their dominace to a win at Norwich &#8211; going down to two late goals after a David Cotterill missed penalty. Monk told the Western Mail: &ldquo;Football is a mad, mad game sometimes. &ldquo;There is no justice sometimes. Everyone is a bit [&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-17524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524","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=17524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}