{"id":18775,"date":"2012-03-10T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T16:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18775"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"beating-city-would-be-a-massive-scalp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2012\/03\/10\/beating-city-would-be-a-massive-scalp\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating City Would Be A Massive Scalp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Graham know that beating Manchester City would be a massive scalp for the Swans<\/p>\n<p>City arrive at the Liberty Stadium tomorrow in a reverse of the Swans opening Premier League game &#8211; a game they lost 4-0 at the Ethiad back in August<\/p>\n<p>And in their ranks will be a former team mate of Graham in Adam Johnson &#8211; they played together at Middlesbrough<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know Adam well and I still speak to him. I used to pick him up on the way to training when he was a scholar at Middlesbrough,&#8221;Graham told the Evening Post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was on a YTS contract, so I used to give him a lift because he wasn&#8217;t old enough to drive, but I think he can come and pick me up in his cars now with the number of cars he&#8217;s probably got!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s come on leaps and bounds since then, and he&#8217;s deserved his chance with City and England.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t got any bets riding on the game. We both just want to get three points tomorrow, and hopefully I&#8217;ll do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot&#8217;s changed. I think we&#8217;ve adapted well to the Premier League and we&#8217;ve come into our own over the course of the season,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To go to Manchester City for the first game was always going to be tough. We took a bit of a beating, but we never once let that get to us and we always thought we were good enough to stay in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re a totally different team from when we last played them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve done well against the so-called bigger teams, so we&#8217;ll be going into it full of confidence and trying to get three points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re going to be wanting to bounce back from their defeat to Sporting Lisbon, so we&#8217;ll be expecting a reaction tomorrow,&#8221; Graham added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s up to us as players to get right amongst them from the start and that will give the fans a lift.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fans are very vocal down here. No matter what the score is, they back us to the hilt. It&#8217;s great to have and I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll make it hostile for City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the amount of money City have spent and the world-class players they&#8217;ve got, it would be a massive scalp.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Graham know that beating Manchester City would be a massive scalp for the Swans City arrive at the Liberty Stadium tomorrow in a reverse of the Swans opening Premier League game &#8211; a game they lost 4-0 at the Ethiad back in August And in their ranks will be a former team mate of [&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-18775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18775","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=18775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}