{"id":18079,"date":"2011-04-19T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18079"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"britton-keep-the-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/04\/19\/britton-keep-the-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Britton &#8211; Keep The Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City midfielder wants supporters to remain very much behind the team despite some poor away form that has seen them fall behind the teams chasing a top two place.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Four away defeats on the trot is not good enough at any time, whatever you are fighting for&quot; he told the Western Mail <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not the form we are looking for, but we&rsquo;ve got a big weekend with two games in three days and things can change so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Realistically, we need to win our last four games and hope other results go our way to stand a chance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need to clear our heads and go again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a direct plea to the fans, he added: &ldquo;Please stick with us like you have the whole time I&rsquo;ve been here. You&rsquo;ve been brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The result at Burnley didn&rsquo;t go our way, but the players are giving everything and will continue to do so right until the end.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Even if we don&rsquo;t make the top two and it ends up being the play-offs, which will be a great achievement, we need everyone behind us.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the first half we hit the post twice and were looking pretty confident up until we scored really,&rdquo; said Britton.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We just needed the goal, which we got, so it&rsquo;s disappointing to finish the game losing 2-1 and come away with nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t play that badly so it&rsquo;s unfortunate in one way.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The goals are hard to swallow if you like, but it happens in&nbsp;football&nbsp;and now we need to look to the next game.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not over. You&rsquo;ve got to keep going until it&rsquo;s mathematically impossible.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It makes it more difficult for us with other&nbsp;teams&nbsp;winning, there&rsquo;s no doubt about that, but we&rsquo;ve just got to win our remaining games. Even then it might not be enough, but that&rsquo;s all we can do.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll try and win every game and then take it from there.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t want to be looking over our shoulder, we want to be looking forward.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We want to concentrate on getting wins because as soon as you start looking behind you, you start worrying.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need to win games and if we do that I&rsquo;m sure we&rsquo;ll be OK.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no point dwelling on things, we&rsquo;ve got two games in three days next weekend which is a good chance to pick up six points in a short space of time and try to move up the table.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City midfielder wants supporters to remain very much behind the team despite some poor away form that has seen them fall behind the teams chasing a top two place. &quot;Four away defeats on the trot is not good enough at any time, whatever you are fighting for&quot; he told the Western Mail &ldquo;It&rsquo;s [&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-18079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079","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=18079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}