{"id":434029,"date":"2011-06-01T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/01\/swansea-vice-captain-alan-tate-confident-club-will-compete-in-the-premier-league-we-are-better-defensively-than-blackpool-will-not-go-all-or\/"},"modified":"2011-06-01T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T12:35:00","slug":"swansea-vice-captain-alan-tate-confident-club-will-compete-in-the-premier-league-we-are-better-defensively-than-blackpool-will-not-go-all-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/01\/swansea-vice-captain-alan-tate-confident-club-will-compete-in-the-premier-league-we-are-better-defensively-than-blackpool-will-not-go-all-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea vice-captain Alan Tate confident club will compete in the Premier League: We are better defensively than Blackpool &#038; will not go all or&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By James Fielden<\/h3>\n<h4>1 Jun 2011 13:35:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"72.8206412826\">\n<div readability=\"18.1860465116\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"npower Championship,Garry Monk,Reading v Swansea City\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/133000\/133069_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>npower Championship,Garry Monk,Reading v Swansea City<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"38.6314235086\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/893\/swansea-city\">Swansea<\/a> vice-captain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/45311\/alan-tate\">Alan Tate<\/a> thinks his team will be ok in the top flight next season because they have a sound defence to go with their attacking prowess.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans were promoted on Monday after beating Reading 4-2 in the Championship play-off final and they now have a big summer ahead as they prepare for Premier League football for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Tate has played a key part in their success last season and he says that since he joined the club, they have proved people wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe play the way lots of people want to see the game played,\u201d Tate told <em>The<\/em> <em>Telegraph<\/em>. \u201cWe don&#8217;t know any other way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we&#8217;re a bit more defensively sound than Blackpool. I don&#8217;t think we go all or nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince day one we\u2019ve proved people wrong. When I first joined in 2002 we were six points adrift at the bottom and we stayed up. Everything\u2019s been stacked against us for years so going into the Premier League is no different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve improved every year.\u00a0 It\u2019s been one massive uphill ride. We\u2019ve all got a point to prove next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott Sinclair scored a hat-trick for Swansea in the final and Tate is full of praise for the flying winger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s probably been the best player in the Championship by a million miles &#8211; not only has he got the end product but he works as well,\u201d said Tate.<\/p>\n<p>With Cardiff being at the top of the Championship for most of the year before being dumped out in the play-offs, Tate says the fans are thrilled to be the top dogs in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us to get there and Cardiff not is brilliant,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means everything for people in Swansea. It is bragging rights for our fans for the rest of their days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody can take it away from us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/01\/2513110\/swansea-vice-captain-alan-tate-confident-club-will-compete\" title=\"Swansea vice-captain Alan Tate confident club will compete in the Premier League: We are better defensively than Blackpool &amp; will not go all or...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swansea vice-captain Alan Tate confident club will compete in the Premier League: We are better defensively than Blackpool &amp; will not go all or&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By James Fielden 1 Jun 2011 13:35:00 npower Championship,Garry Monk,Reading v Swansea City Related Links Teams Players Swansea vice-captain Alan Tate thinks his team will be ok in the top flight next season because they have a sound defence to go with their attacking prowess. The Swans were promoted on Monday after beating Reading 4-2 in the Championship play-off final and they now have a big summer ahead as they prepare for Premier League football for the first time. Tate has played a key part in their success last season and he says that since he joined the club, they have proved people wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Swansea vice-captain Alan Tate confident club will compete in the Premier League: We are better defensively than Blackpool &amp; will not go all or... - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/01\/swansea-vice-captain-alan-tate-confident-club-will-compete-in-the-premier-league-we-are-better-defensively-than-blackpool-will-not-go-all-or\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Swansea vice-captain Alan Tate confident club will compete in the Premier League: We are better defensively than Blackpool &amp; will not go all or... - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By James Fielden 1 Jun 2011 13:35:00 npower Championship,Garry Monk,Reading v Swansea City Related Links Teams Players Swansea vice-captain Alan Tate thinks his team will be ok in the top flight next season because they have a sound defence to go with their attacking prowess. 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