{"id":17762,"date":"2010-11-28T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17762"},"modified":"2020-11-27T21:17:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T21:17:31","slug":"easter-i-support-arsenal-not-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/11\/28\/easter-i-support-arsenal-not-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter &#8211; I Support Arsenal Not Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And Easter admits that despite his Cardiff roots he is an Arsenal fan ahead of the Bluebirds.<\/p>\n<p>Easter sparked fury when he celebrated a Wycombe goal by doing the Ayatollah in front of the Swans fans four years ago but hne has now put that behind him even if he understands that some supporters have not done so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure I\u2019ll get a bit of stick from a couple of fans,\u201d he told Wales on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do things when you are young and stupid, but I am sure a bit of hard graft and a few goals will make them forget about that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a Cardiff fan, I\u2019ve always supported Arsenal, so it was a bit of strange one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was more for my mates than it was for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all in the past now, I\u2019m a Swansea player and I can\u2019t wait to get started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been badgering my agent to speak to Brendan for a while now and the opportunity arose on Wednesday. By Thursday I was signed<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a massive opportunity for me and I\u2019m here to make it permanent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI watched the game against Cardiff and I thought they completely dominated the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember sitting on the sofa with my wife and saying that I would love to play in that team with all the chances they get.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lads play some great stuff and hopefully I can be on the pitch to finish off some of the great opportunities they create.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two wingers have impressed me massively, and Joe Allen in the midfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey play with a high percentage of possession. So it is about me playing a bit of cat-and-mouse with the centre-half so I get chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was at my most prolific it was in the same kind of system last season at MK Dons, so it is something I can hopefully slip into.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as I\u2019m fit I\u2019ll be raring to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of quality players here and I am thoroughly looking forward to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to get going, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019m under pressure to perform here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I\u2019ve got to knuckle down get some goals and hopefully turn it into a longer deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve played in the Championship with Plymouth and it\u2019s a league I always keep an eye on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel I am more than capable of playing at this level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read More\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swansea-city-fc\/2010\/11\/28\/jermaine-easter-out-to-make-most-of-swansea-chance-91466-27728821\/?#ixzz16Z1dCwkm\">http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swansea-city-fc\/2010\/11\/28\/jermaine-easter-out-to-make-most-of-swansea-chance-91466-27728821\/?#ixzz16Z1dCwkm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Easter admits that despite his Cardiff roots he is an Arsenal fan ahead of the Bluebirds. Easter sparked fury when he celebrated a Wycombe goal by doing the Ayatollah in front of the Swans fans four years ago but hne has now put that behind him even if he understands that some supporters have [&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-17762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17762","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=17762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}