The Swansea City vice captain will line up against his former manager and team mate tonight backed by a huge army of travelling Swansea supporters.<\/p>\n
All 4,490 tickets allocated to the Swans for the game have been sold out and with the Roberto factor coming into play, it promises to be a noisy night at the DW Stadium this evening.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Western Mail, Tate said \u201cRoberto\u2019s going to get stick, there\u2019s no point beating around the bush, off some fans who feel very let down by him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing that let him down was when he said he was forced out as a player and would have to be forced out as a manager. At the end of the day he was not forced out as a manager.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Roberto realises that and I don\u2019t think anything that\u2019s going to happen will be something he doesn\u2019t expect.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something that he is going to have to deal with and I am sure he will.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always have good away support, but this one is going to be something special for the fans because what happened with Roberto is something that still riles them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely one I want to win for the fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played alongside Roberto and then under him as a manager and I will always have that respect I had for him when he was captain.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery rarely will I say a bad word about him.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what he\u2019s done is done and we\u2019ve moved on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve learnt that managers come and go and I will be happy at Swansea City, regardless of who the manager is.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou only have to look at the players and managers who have come and gone, the grass is not greener.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always said it\u2019s the club I love playing for.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably the biggest compliment you can pay the players, is how we have kept it going when Roberto left,\u201d added Swansea\u2019s vice-captain Tate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lads did better for Paulo than he did for the lads.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow the new gaffer\u2019s come in and he is doing as much for us as we are for him and he is probably very happy with the players he\u2019s got.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now doing a lot better day-to-day, but it\u2019s a tough ask against a Premiership team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will be strong favourites being where they are, but we\u2019ve got nothing to lose.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can go out there and enjoy ourselves. Everyone is there to be beaten.\u201d<\/p>\n