{"id":71029,"date":"2022-10-19T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=71029"},"modified":"2022-10-19T06:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T05:18:37","slug":"no-but-what-a-brilliant-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/10\/19\/no-but-what-a-brilliant-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No &#8211; but what a brilliant professional&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Fulton was the match winner last night as he struck his first league goal of the season to cap a magnificent fightback from the Swans that secured all three points against Reading and kept us very much in the promotion hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton&#8217;s strike from the best part of thirty yards out was drilled into the bottom corner of the net past the helpless arm of Lumley and capped a great night for the Swans on an evening where we could easily have been dead and buried at 2-0 down.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='C6TQmQOfTMNBl7vo2RYqpw' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1244063649' 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:'C6TQmQOfTMNBl7vo2RYqpw',sig:'maoIhjDpFQbKb4NJPsI-gfiriZSAjJ2iKVZTNpqczuE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1244063649',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Fulton&#8217;s part in the team this season is obvious and credit to both manager and player for firstly giving him the chance and then taking it with a midfield partnership with Matt Grimes now looking one of the key reasons for our current success.<\/p>\n<p>Goalscoring wise though he may not have contributed many but last night&#8217;s could not have come at a better time as we pushed for the winner although Russell Martin did confess after the game that he did not want Fulton to shoot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gilly was laughing with me when we celebrated, I shouted \u2018no\u2019 as he hit it,&#8221; Martin said after the game. &#8220;Jay&#8217;s got that in his locker.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='1a4-zM9JSfhePx0KjWfazw' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1244065247' 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:'1a4-zM9JSfhePx0KjWfazw',sig:'MCiXDTeWgm0WzWMu6ucEO6voeUsgpUeDbEs_IAoB21w=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1244065247',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p id=\"amp-readmore-target\">&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful to Jay for how he&#8217;s been since the start of this season. 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