{"id":18027,"date":"2011-03-26T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18027"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"scott-sets-sights-on-london-2012-family-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/03\/26\/scott-sets-sights-on-london-2012-family-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Sets Sights On London 2012 Family Double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea City&#39;s top scorer&nbsp;&#8211; currently away on internation duty with the England Under-21s looks a likely candidate for this summer&#39;s European Championships and that should then put him at the front end of the queue for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics next summer.<\/p>\n<p>And his brother Martin &#8211; who has Cerebral Palsy &#8211; is set to make that a family double by being in the Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He plays in the Cerebral Palsy team,&quot; Sinclair told the Evening Post<\/p>\n<p>&quot;His left arm and his leg doesn&#39;t work as well as they should do. He broke his hip which made it a bit worse.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#39;s normally everywhere, he plays defence, striker, midfielder &mdash; they play seven-a-side.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He comes to support me, basically every game I play. We are very close and he comes to most home games and away games when he can &mdash; sometimes it&#39;s too far to travel.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Sometimes you look at the guys and because they play so well you think, &#39;Is there anything wrong with these guys?&#39;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s amazing when you see what&#39;s wrong with them and what they do.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It puts stuff in perspective and if you have had a bad game and you dwell on it, I see my brother and what he deals with and it puts perspective on your own view.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If everything goes well, he should get picked and could be playing in the Paralympics next year.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It would be the best summer if I could get promoted with my club and win the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;ve had seven loan deals and I was fed up of going on loan and not being settled.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When you go on loan, you&#39;re not really part of that team and you go back and you never really know what&#39;s going to happen, so I thought it was best for me to go and get some football.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea City&#39;s top scorer&nbsp;&#8211; currently away on internation duty with the England Under-21s looks a likely candidate for this summer&#39;s European Championships and that should then put him at the front end of the queue for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics next summer. And his brother Martin &#8211; who has Cerebral Palsy &#8211; [&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-18027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18027","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=18027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}