{"id":7937,"date":"2001-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=7937"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"michael-howard-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2001\/06\/11\/michael-howard-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Howard Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Mathew Howard <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td colspan=2> Stats &#038; History<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Position<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Left Back \/ Central Defender<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Number<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>03<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Born<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>02.12.78 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Height<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>5&#8243; 7&#8242;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Weight<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>10st 7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Signed From<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Tranmere 1998, Free<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Other Clubs<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>None<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Pre-Swans<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>0 Apps 0 Goals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div> Swans Stats<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>139 apps, 1 goal (upto 01\/06\/01)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=3> Profile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=3>\n<p>Howard joined the Swans from Tranmere where he failed to impress boss John Aldridge after an intial trial period. After signing a new contract that keeps him here until 2003 Michael has steadily made the left back position all his own.<\/p>\n<p>Howard is an aggresive hot headed left back but always gives 100% but has a tendancy to get booked a little too often<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1999\/2000 A key part of the dynamic defence that won the Championship, often over looked as the big reason why the team suceeded that year but only 1 right winger was able to beat him on a regular occurance.<\/li>\n<li>2000\/2001 Howard has been moved around a lot as Hollins tries to work out a new stratergy being switched from left back to left Central defender as part of a 3-5-2 foramtion. Howard was the only consistant part of the equation of the defence as the rest folded under injuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathew Howard Stats &#038; History Position Left Back \/ Central Defender Number 03 Born 02.12.78 Height 5&#8243; 7&#8242; Weight 10st 7 Signed From Tranmere 1998, Free Other Clubs None Pre-Swans 0 Apps 0 Goals Swans Stats 139 apps, 1 goal (upto 01\/06\/01) Profile Howard joined the Swans from Tranmere where he failed to impress boss [&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-7937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937","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=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}