{"id":19542,"date":"2014-09-12T10:41:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T10:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=19542"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"there-was-only-ever-one-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2014\/09\/12\/there-was-only-ever-one-result\/","title":{"rendered":"There Was Only Ever One Result?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People can crow about Chelsea all you want but they were expected to be up there at this point in time and we were not.  Therefore, the only winner could be Garry who steered his side to four wins from four in the month of August and a place right at the top end of the Premier League table as his side went into the international break.<\/p>\n<p>An opening day win at Old Trafford was followed up by home league successes over Burnley and West Brom which were sandwiched around a Capital One cup win over Rotherham.<\/p>\n<p>That was always going to be enough to secure him a first managerial award and came off the back of a run that saw the Swans win three of their last four league games last season too.<\/p>\n<p>With form like that it is no wonder that Garry is seen smiling as he holds an award that many have tried for but not all of them win over the course of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an honour and privilege, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very much a collective \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not about individuals. For me, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about the players, myself, the staff around me day-to-day and the staff in the office working hard. This is who I dedicate the award to,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Monk. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have made a great start, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all it is \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a start. There will be ups and downs but we will make sure that we maintain our standards and that should see us achieve a good season.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>It is good to see he retains his feet firmly on the ground despite this great accolade and what is to say that come the end of September he doesn&#8217;t have another one?   A win at Chelsea tomorrow will set him on that way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swans TV - News : Monk, Manager of the Month\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0t3M0afpqNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><#cfc><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People can crow about Chelsea all you want but they were expected to be up there at this point in time and we were not. Therefore, the only winner could be Garry who steered his side to four wins from four in the month of August and a place right at the top end 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-19542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542","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=19542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}