Great Times

As one the Club’s current longest serving players, Simon Davies clearly appreciate how far Roy Hodgson has taken the Club over the past two years.

With a mouth-watering tie in Turin on Thursday night, Davies is relishing the prospect of a historic few weeks as the Team compete across three fronts in the Barclays Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Europa League.

“Coming from where we were two years ago, just avoiding relegation, if someone would have offered us the run of games we’ve got coming up, we’d of been jumping up and down,” said Davies.

“We’ve got Juventus, Manchester United, Juventus, Manchester City and then Spurs in the Quarter Final of the FA Cup – it’s great times.

“It’s game after game and hopefully we can keep this run going because we had a great run in February. It will be a tough month but we’ve got a lot of experience in the squad and I’m sure the Manager will negotiate the month wisely. We’ve got a big fixture pile-up now so I’m sure the manager will use the squad.”

After defeating last season’s UEFA Cup winners in Donetsk, Davies believes his Team have nothing to fear after testing themselves against arguably one of the finest teams in European football.

“I don’t think many teams will play football as well as Shakhtar Donetsk did. It was quite unanimous in our dressing room that they were the best side we’ve ever played against.

“We’ve got to believe in ourselves because we’ve had some really good results lately. We’ll play our game and remain solid. We know it’s going to be a very tough game but we also know we’re capable of getting a result.

“We can play better than we did last weekend and hopefully we will do in the next few games.”