{"id":17777,"date":"2010-12-06T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17777"},"modified":"2020-12-06T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:35:06","slug":"gower-we-were-due-a-big-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/12\/06\/gower-we-were-due-a-big-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Gower &#8211; We Were Due A Big Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City midfielder was the man at the heart of the &#8216;foul&#8217; on Carlos Edwards on Saturday when Andy D&#8217;Urso waved play on after the two players made contact in the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards and most of Portman Road believed it was a penalty but D&#8217;Urso waved play on and just seconds later Craig Beattie was putting the seal on a Swans victory that moved them to within one point of second place.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t get out of the way and he (Edwards) came across me,&#8221; Gower told the Evening Post. &#8220;I went back to get inside him but there&#8217;s no reason for him to go down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did think for a split second to tug him back, but as he was in the box I decided against it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He could have stayed on his feet and stick it in the net. You&#8217;d have to ask him why he didn&#8217;t stay on his feet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There wasn&#8217;t that much contact for him to go down but he chose to do that and he put it in the hands of the ref.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortunately for us, he didn&#8217;t give it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I couldn&#8217;t have complained if he had because of the angle the ref had and he (Edwards) made it look as though I hit him hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had some terrible decisions go against us since I&#8217;ve been here,&#8221; said Gower. &#8220;It&#8217;s been quite disheartening because sometimes you really need them to go for you as the teams around you always seem to get them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were due a big decision like this for the past two years and you see the difference it makes in a game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s nice to be on the end of one that goes our way and celebrate a win rather than seeing the possibility of victory snatched away from us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City midfielder was the man at the heart of the &#8216;foul&#8217; on Carlos Edwards on Saturday when Andy D&#8217;Urso waved play on after the two players made contact in the penalty area. Edwards and most of Portman Road believed it was a penalty but D&#8217;Urso waved play on and just seconds later Craig [&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-17777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777","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=17777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}