{"id":416407,"date":"2011-05-03T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/03\/stoke-will-not-relax-says-whelan\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:55:08","slug":"stoke-will-not-relax-says-whelan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/03\/stoke-will-not-relax-says-whelan\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke will not relax, says Whelan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/52469000\/jpg\/_52469415_glenn_whelan_226getty.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Stoke City midfielder Glenn Whelan\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whelan has not scored a Premier League goal since February 2010<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Stoke City will not ease up ahead of their first appearance in the FA Cup final, according to Glenn Whelan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Potters face Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday before taking on Manchester City at Wembley on 14 May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll keep going right until the end of the season because the manager&#8217;s got this big thing of getting into the top 10,&#8221; Whelan told BBC Radio Stoke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a big game against Arsenal and they&#8217;re the games that you want to play in all of the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Potters are currently 10th in the table on 43 points, four less than the tally they achieved in finishing 11th in 2009\/10.<\/p>\n<p>Stoke will definitely be without striker Ricardo Fuller (Achilles) for the rest of the season, while winger Matthew Etherington (hamstring) is extremely doubtful for the FA Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Whelan insisted that the players would not be taking it easy against the Gunners in a bid to avoid injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t think like that because when you start worrying about injuries, that&#8217;s when you pick them up,&#8221; added the Republic of Ireland international.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"2.89473684211\">\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.bbc.co.uk\/o.gif?~RS~s~RS~Sport~RS~t~RS~_SportRegChk~RS~i~RS~(none)~RS~a~RS~Domestic~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~02~RS~\"%20height=\"1\"%20width=\"2\"%20alt=\"\"%20\/%3E%3C\/p%3E%3C!--%20E%20BO%20--%3E%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3C\/div%3E%3Cimg%20src=\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>see also<\/p>\n<hr class=\"pufff\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related bbc links:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related internet links:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/teams\/s\/stoke_city\/9474174.stm\" title=\"Stoke will not relax, says Whelan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoke will not relax, says Whelan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Whelan has not scored a Premier League goal since February 2010 Stoke City will not ease up ahead of their first appearance in the FA Cup final, according to Glenn Whelan. 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