Watford legend Gibbs: My focus is on Swansea

Swansea City assistant manager Nigel Gibbs is keeping his sentimentality muted ahead of a return to his former club Watford this weekend.

Gibbs was a product of the Hornets’ youth system and spent his entire 19-year-career at Vicarage Road.

He remained with the club as a coach following his retirement and took caretaker charge in 2005.

But he is now at Swansea, who currently sit 18th, two points from safety and without a win in five matches.

They travel to Watford on Saturday knowing that an upturn in form is essential if they wish to maintain their Premier League status.

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And with stakes as high as they can be for the Swans, Gibbs is fully focused on his current club.

“I have been back there a couple of times but it will always mean a lot for me to go back to somewhere where I spent so much of my career as a player and a coach,” he said.

“It was such a long association and I have many memories from my time at Watford that I will always hold dear, and there will be a few members of staff around who I know and it will be good to see them.

“But it has to be all about Swansea City for me, and it is about getting a result. That’s all it can be about.

“Nobody gives you anything in this league, a victory in the Premier League is massive and you have to work hard, be organised and put in the work during the week.

“If you get the performance right you have a chance.

“We have fallen below par and we have to get back to it, we are confident the players can do it and we have a chance if we can.”