{"id":17990,"date":"2011-03-03T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17990"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"butler-closing-in-on-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/03\/03\/butler-closing-in-on-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Closing In On Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City manager told the Evening Post &quot;Tom has started back training and we are pleased for him,<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He has worked very hard and very thoroughly to get back, and it&#39;s good to see him with the rest of the group again. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;He has got terrific qualities and a brilliant personality &mdash; he is the sort of player you want to have around.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s been a difficult year for Tom because I know he has been a good player for Swansea,&quot; Rodgers added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But I like him &mdash; he has got intelligence and he is a good lad on top of that.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He is a clever player on the pitch and off it he understands what we are trying to do.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Tom&#39;s first target is to work his way into a position where he is available again,&quot; Rodgers said. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;He was looking really good when he was building up towards his last comeback, but then the injury struck again.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He has now put in the work again to get to this stage and hopefully, over the next couple of weeks, he can get himself football-fit.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If he can get that fitness back, he will be a good player for us to have around.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City manager told the Evening Post &quot;Tom has started back training and we are pleased for him, &quot;He has worked very hard and very thoroughly to get back, and it&#39;s good to see him with the rest of the group again. &quot;He has got terrific qualities and a brilliant personality &mdash; he is [&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-17990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17990","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=17990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}