{"id":18643,"date":"2011-12-16T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T08:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18643"},"modified":"2020-12-16T07:51:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T07:51:36","slug":"roll-out-the-excuses-kenny-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/12\/16\/roll-out-the-excuses-kenny-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll Out The Excuses Kenny & Co"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Haynes – author of Walking on Sunshine – continues his regular monthly view on all things Swansea City<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I think last seasons managerial excuses for being totally outplayed by a superb Swansea City side have been put in to the shade somewhat by some of this seasons offerings as little old Swansea deliver a few footballing lessons to so called established premier league teams.\u00a0 Last season the general explanation for being on the end of a few Swansea slappings was that the opposition\u00a0‘ didn’t play well ‘<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0were\u00a0‘ depleted ‘\u00a0<\/em>due to injury or in one case the absolute stunning reply after a certain\u00a0hammering\u00a0‘ We are looking\u00a0more towards next season ‘\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Fantastic news for the travelling supporters who had spent a whole day travelling and spending their hard earned on a relegated football teams last throws of life in the championship.<\/p>\n

Now this season – it all started off with the excuses of Roy Hodgson his\u00a0‘ I thought we played poorly ‘\u00a0<\/em>routine\u00a0was a text book excuse but he followed it up with\u00a0‘ the referee lent a hand in some of the big game decisions ‘<\/em>So, nothing to do with you then Roy boy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tony Pulis was better on all levels stating it was Stoke’s inability to get in to the game that set up a Swansea win.\u00a0\u00a0‘ We played well , even better than they did, but we were poor at the start ‘<\/em>\u00a0is almost a classic response, but he improved his lot with the ‘\u00a0we played better than them ‘\u00a0<\/em>statement.\u00a0 But how could they ? \u00a0Swansea destroyed them.\u00a0 Bolton Wanderers manager Owen Coyle blamed everybody but his team and his tactics when they lost at The Liberty.\u00a0 He blamed the referee Mark Clattenburg, he blamed Neil Taylor for fouling his players, he blamed two soft yellow cards and then he blamed Swansea for their style of play. Now who would you rather watch ? Bolton or Swansea ? Now let me think that one through ……..<\/p>\n

I will leave the best until last though.\u00a0 Daniel Agger,\u00a0after being totally outplayed on the football field when The Swans flew in to Liverpool\u00a0stated\u00a0‘ We ran around like headless chickens in the first half, we were so poor\u00a0‘<\/em>Lets analyse this statement. It wont\u00a0take long.\u00a0 Why would Liverpool players be running around like headless chickens ?\u00a0 Is it the fact they\u00a0are actually\u00a0poultry based footballers or maybe, and excuse me folks\u00a0for this\u00a0total football revelation, they were outplayed for most of the game ?\u00a0 And why was this ?\u00a0 Well, I am going to yet again astound you, It had something to do with the fact that Swansea had the ball, and those so called better Liverpool players were getting so frustrated ( and tactically inept\u00a0Kenny )\u00a0they could do nothing more than run around trying to get it back. Like herds of kids in\u00a0a fifty a side game at school, shouting and screaming with no co-ordination and tactic to respond to our total domination of the game.\u00a0 The only way Daniel Agger and his outclassed team would have been happy would have been to give them their own ball to play with.<\/p>\n

Yes, Swansea City have had compliments this season, but none if any of the managers who have provided our opposition have once stated after a defeat that they were outplayed, or outclassed or indeed out thought.\u00a0 For that we have to smile, and for that we really should draw the positives.\u00a0 No manager would state\u00a0a positive in our favour\u00a0because it reflects so badly on their team, style of play and awareness that they would be one step further towards the precipice that is the sack.\u00a0 A 50 million pound team being run ragged and outplayed by cheap signings ( a back four that cost less than 850k )\u00a0and free transfers ( a midfield that at times\u00a0cost less than a million )\u00a0is the last thing they need exposing, because it exposes their own frailty and inability to scout, sign and deliver\u00a0the goods for their own established football clubs. And lets be honest if you were on a million smackers a\u00a0 year you wouldn’t want that taken away
\neither – would you ? Only a dafty would do that.<\/p>\n

We are forever the pain in the footballing backside of the illustrious premier league manager, who live a lifestyle not fitting\u00a0the product they deliver, the hopeless Coyle’s and Hodgson’s, the ineffective Pulis’s and Jol’s and the haphazard Dalglish’s just have to accept it, we are better than they are, be it overall or on the day.\u00a0 And if that acceptance is made in the glare of the media or indeed in the privacy of their own gold tapped, under floor heated\u00a0en suite bathroom, they have to accept it. For me – and you I know, it leaves that smile and that knowing look, that the\u00a0opposition that we play and the excuses they continue to make are merely hidden compliments to a manager, his staff and team, that has so much more to achieve, and so much more to prove.<\/p>\n

Continue reading between the lines folks, the excuses say more\u00a0in our favour than any compliment I could think of.<\/p>\n

Onwards Jacks.<\/p>\n

Keith haynes.<\/p>\n

Keith will be signing copies of ‘ Walking on Sunshine ‘ in Waterstones Swansea at 11am – 1pm on Saturday 17th December 2011
\nhttp:\/\/www.list.co.uk\/place\/20004207-waterstones\/<\/a><\/p>\n

And then at WH Smith Swansea Quadrant\u00a0from 1.30pm until 3.30pm.<\/p>\n

Come along and have a Swansea City chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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