{"id":62825,"date":"2022-04-23T18:40:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T17:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=62825"},"modified":"2022-04-23T20:08:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T19:08:47","slug":"swansea-city-sack-sporting-director-mark-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/04\/23\/swansea-city-sack-sporting-director-mark-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City sack Sporting Director Mark Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Allen, Sporting Director at Swansea City, has been sacked with immediate effect according to a tweet from John Percy at the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Allen was appointed at the start of this season and John Percy&#8217;s tweet says that the process to appoint a replacement is already underway.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SwanseaCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SwanseaCity<\/a> have sacked sporting director Mark Allen, after just eight months in charge. Allen is now on gardening leave and the process to appoint a replacement is underway <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Swans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Swans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Percy (@JPercyTelegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPercyTelegraph\/status\/1517918895834910722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".xcgyua2mrg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".xcgyua2mrg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">Allen joined Swansea as academy boss in January 2021 before being promoted to the sporting director role a matter of days after Russell Martin was named head coach in August 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".xcgyua2mrg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".xcgyua2mrg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Swansea have not yet commented on the news that Allen is to leave his post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='qIlGjqnQQWRrbgsmoHTwig' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1239190774' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'qIlGjqnQQWRrbgsmoHTwig',sig:'OMpb8dHUpne7pINOZt0ifs8PumuuxSleByf9ggUWpcg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1239190774',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Allen, Sporting Director at Swansea City, has been sacked with immediate effect according to a tweet from John Percy at the Telegraph. Allen was appointed at the start of this season and John Percy&#8217;s tweet says that the process to appoint a replacement is already underway. #SwanseaCity have sacked sporting director Mark Allen, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[818,813],"class_list":["post-62825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-mark-allen","tag-the-2021-2022-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62825","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}