{"id":18541,"date":"2011-10-31T21:41:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T21:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18541"},"modified":"2020-10-31T07:33:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T07:33:35","slug":"who-wants-to-take-this-personally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/10\/31\/who-wants-to-take-this-personally\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Wants To Take This Personally?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Haynes gives us his October column by asking “Who wants to take this personally?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Its been\u00a0one hell of a good month or so\u00a0for Welsh international football, and recent results in the qualifiers for Gary Speed have been very encouraging.\u00a0 It doesn’t mean we will actually qualify for anything, god forbid, but it does take the pressure of Speed and his staff, and gives us as a nation something more to shout about. \u00a0 For that I am very grateful to him.\u00a0 From my viewpoint as a Swansea City supporter I am really happy he is Wales manager, basically because that means he isn’t Swansea City manager, which like many Swans fans\u00a0I feared would happen last summer.\u00a0 I was never encouraged by his record at Sheffield United, nor I have to say was\u00a0I encouraged when he spoke about his methods,\u00a0tactics, mindset and philosophy on the game of football.\u00a0 Unlike Brendan Rodgers, Speed looks uncomfortable when talking about management and his\u00a0matchday strategies.\u00a0 All I got was a somewhat glazed look in to\u00a0the camera.\u00a0 I think Gary needs to grasp how he is being perceived on camera and in the media, and practice more ( be that through education and training or media awareness ) how he\u00a0speaks and conveys what it is he wants to say.\u00a0 Something else that\u00a0doesn’t sit well with me and Gary Speed is his distinct lack of support for Swansea City in the media, like Robbie Savage ( as another example ) I wonder why this is ?\u00a0 Is it that they are North Walians, and still carry this resentment that a north \/ south divide\u00a0brings when a\u00a0 country is indeed ….\u00a0divided ?\u00a0 Lets be honest the country couldn’t be more different when examined north to south in dialect, culture and perception.\u00a0 Or is it that they still deem Cardiff the central and most pivotal thing in Welsh football still, and find themselves swayed by a desire to support the capital city ?\u00a0 The example I will give is Gary Speed on\u00a0SKY TV’s\u00a0Goals on Sunday\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>after The Swans magnificent performance at Wolves, he didn’t seem to be at all interested or proud that Swansea City, Wales premier Welsh club side by a very long way –\u00a0were in the Premier league and carrying forwards that fire breathing dragon that has had us all so excited in the past 14 months or so.\u00a0 I didn’t\u00a0hear his football\u00a0philosophy\u00a0<\/em>at any time, nor how he\u00a0rationalises and thinks the game should be played.\u00a0 He referred to Swansea City as\u00a0‘ them ‘\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0and I am not sure if its just me and my\u00a0‘ siege mentality ‘<\/em>\u00a0when it comes to Swansea, but he\u00a0wasn’t quick to credit the club or the team for the remarkable performance at Wolves, regardless of how the\u00a0game ended.\u00a0 I wonder why this would be ?<\/p>\n

A good friend of mine reckons its because all the Welsh\u00a0international football foundations were put in place by John Toshack and Bryan Flynn\u00a0at youth and under 21 level, and Speed is just moving round the players like pawns in a\u00a0chess game, easing them in gently to roles that\u00a0Toshack has already defined and managed them in to.\u00a0 Now there’s a thought …………..<\/p>\n

I think at times people, no matter who they are, or where they see themselves\u00a0in the bigger and more creative picture should\u00a0cast aside that layer of skin that brings with it personal issues and personal pride and see their appointment or place in life as a positive thing .\u00a0\u00a0Their football roles can be developed and made even better by education,\u00a0with personal prejudice, no matter\u00a0what form it takes\u00a0then\u00a0recognised and\u00a0 managed by the individual. Not carried about with them like a dark cloud ready to rain and wash away any progress they as an individual can make for themselves and indeed …… others.\u00a0 In the media managers, radio hosts, TV pundits, players and fans are able to put forward their opinions and views every day.\u00a0\u00a0As an example –\u00a0Talk Sport<\/em>\u00a0where we do hear\u00a0somewhat male dominated viewpoints with a severe English bias, I think it would be refreshing for fans of the game, no matter who they are to confront and cast aside these prejudices we hear booming out of the radio on a\u00a0 daily basis – Have you ever heard Darren Gough talk, or Jason Cundy ?\u00a0What about Mickey Quinn and Ray Houghton\u00a0\u00a0?\u00a0These people, who have had little experience ofReal<\/em>\u00a0life outside of sport, and by that I mean the\u00a0pampered and looked after<\/em>\u00a0aspect of a players life ( or ex player )\u00a0can have no idea what really makes the terrace fan and football\u00a0supporter in general tick.\u00a0 \u00a0What really sparks the real fan\u00a0to travel great distances ( and pay )\u00a0 to see their team play, using at times all their income to see their chosen club side generally disappoint or let them down week in and week out.\u00a0 How can these pundits and\u00a0so called\u00a0experts\u00a0really know what that feels like\u00a0from their padded seats, blinkered viewpoints and freebie tickets with hospitality\u00a0………………..\u00a0\u00a0 How can anyone take any of them seriously ?\u00a0 And all\u00a0at 50p a\u00a0text plus your providers standard rate thrown in as well.<\/p>\n

Football has gone full circle and the greed of those who once played\u00a0or still play the game astounds me.<\/p>\n

Carlos Tevez ?\u00a0 Who needs a player like that at any football club, the pompous attitude, the arrogance and ignorance of a person so lacking in moral fibre, inter personal skills and ability would surely not be welcome at any football club, or should I say our football club ?\u00a0 There is more to a squad than good players, they have to bond and play as a unit, the reason why we as a football club are so successful. They need to nurture each others talent and recognise ability which in itself\u00a0is a crucial factor in Brendan’s coaching style, not that I am saying all is rosy in the Swansea garden.\u00a0 But I am far more happier seeing my club playing like we are with spirit and desire, than the current set up at Manchester City, a great team to watch but look closer at those players, the attitudes of some is disgusting.<\/p>\n

As I have said so many times before, run em out of town.\u00a0 Football doesn’t need them, and the real fans of real clubs like ours\u00a0doesn’t need them or their entourage either.<\/p>\n

Forward Swansea .\u00a0<\/em>
\nKeith Haynes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keith Haynes gives us his October column by asking “Who wants to take this personally?” Its been\u00a0one hell of a good month or so\u00a0for Welsh international football, and recent results in the qualifiers for Gary Speed have been very encouraging.\u00a0 It doesn’t mean we will actually qualify for anything, god forbid, but it does take […]<\/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-18541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18541","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=18541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}