The players had lost confidence in Monk. He did a decent job with Laudrup's team at first, but results were tailing off and all was not well - players refusing to sit on the bench etc. All the locals knew that Monk would go, and once he had, the team put in a decent shift at Man City.
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In some cases the people telling lies/getting the story wrong wouldn't have been in the room with him. After Swansea lost 3-0 at home to Leicester, I wrote that Monk would be sacked the next week. The paper in question rewrote my copy to say he'd be sacked after the Man City game the following...