{"id":18707,"date":"2012-01-16T07:03:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T07:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18707"},"modified":"2021-01-16T08:57:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T08:57:48","slug":"brendan-a-wonderful-day-for-the-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2012\/01\/16\/brendan-a-wonderful-day-for-the-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan &#8211; A Wonderful Day For The Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who was the happiest man in Swansea after watching his side outpass the previous pass masters of the Premier League<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a wonderful performance and it\u2019s a wonderful victory for us,\u201d Rodgers purred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came up against a top club with a world-class manager, so to perform how we did and come out with the win makes it an incredible day for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful day for the players, and it\u2019s a wonderful day for the people of this city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t like to say it\u2019s the best win of my reign, because there have been many good victories which all bring different emotions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for sure it\u2019s the biggest scalp we\u2019ve taken. When you beat a top club like Arsenal, it adds another dimension for the supporters especially.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a great day for British players,\u201d he added. \u201cI have been fortunate in my career to work with British and European players, and people talk about the British lads not having the technical quality you need to play good football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we had seven players out there who have played in the Championship or lower, and they proved that British lads can play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players have performed for me on a consistent basis throughout this season. The level of performance has been there and, more often than not, the result has been there as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes we haven\u2019t got the results, but the confidence to play is always there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure Fabio Capello will have been surprised about the level we play at,\u201d Rodgers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought the front three were a massive threat all afternoon, and they\u2019ve probably given him something to think about.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who was the happiest man in Swansea after watching his side outpass the previous pass masters of the Premier League \u201cIt was a wonderful performance and it\u2019s a wonderful victory for us,\u201d Rodgers purred. \u201cWe came up against a top club with a world-class manager, so to perform how we did and come out [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18707","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=18707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}