{"id":17771,"date":"2010-12-04T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2020-12-04T07:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:39:46","slug":"scotland-fires-swans-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/12\/04\/scotland-fires-swans-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Fires Swans Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Swansea City striker has not scored a goal for five games but as ever does not seem overly worried by the stats trusting in his ability to score rather than worry about reasons why he isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>And he believes that the drought will end sooner rather than later and from his point of view a goal against his former club is always good to experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s more to come from me!\u201d he told the Green Un.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t scored in five (league) games, which in my eyes is a drought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Tamas (Priskin) and I need to chip in with some goals, because we\u2019ve been playing up front a lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m happy with my form, and it\u2019s not preying on my mind. I just need to put away a couple of chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the best time of my career,\u201d admitted Scotland, with reference to Swansea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed playing there and under manager (Roberto) Martinez. I fitted into his formula, with one striker and two pacey wingers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know whether I\u2019ll celebrate if I score, simply because I haven\u2019t scored for a few games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a relief to score, to be fair, so I might not celebrate, but if I was to score a brilliant goal in the top corner, then I might celebrate. So who knows?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really regret leaving Swansea, because it was a big stepping stone for me to go into the Premier League with Wigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that age (30) I had to try and prove myself. It\u2019s a chance I had to take.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Swansea City striker has not scored a goal for five games but as ever does not seem overly worried by the stats trusting in his ability to score rather than worry about reasons why he isn&#8217;t. And he believes that the drought will end sooner rather than later and from his point of [&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-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771","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=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}