{"id":18074,"date":"2011-04-17T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18074"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"howe-football-is-a-very-strange-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/04\/17\/howe-football-is-a-very-strange-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Howe &#8211; Football Is A Very Strange Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Burnley manager was speaking after his side came back from 1-0 down to beat Swansea City and told their official website &quot;Football is a very, very strange game and relief would be the word!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We expected Swansea to play as well as they did, especially in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When we conceded again, we needed something special and I felt we got it in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When you are on a bad run and you concede again at home, you need something to spark you to life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Thankfully, the response of the players was excellent and the crowd were fantastic second half.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It created an atmosphere that made it very difficult for Swansea and it does go to show what we are capable of when we get it right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The lads gave me absolutely everything, which is all you can ask for.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For the players to respond like that, following the frustrating run we have been on, is testament to the spirit and determination in the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It just shows what we are capable of when we get it right and I want that to be the hallmark of the side here, week in and week out, in terms of attitude determination, heart and character.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They are the fundamentals and when we perform as we can we are a match for anyone in this division.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burnley manager was speaking after his side came back from 1-0 down to beat Swansea City and told their official website &quot;Football is a very, very strange game and relief would be the word! &nbsp; &quot;We expected Swansea to play as well as they did, especially in the first half. &nbsp; &quot;When we conceded [&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-18074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18074","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=18074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}