Britton warning for Swans

The Swans and Saturday's opponents, Norwich, have confounded pre-season expectations that they would make a swift return to the Championship, and both are currently on track for comfortable mid-table finishes as they enter this weekend 10th and ninth in the standings respectively.

Last weekend's 2-1 win at West Brom moved Brendan Rodgers' side 10 points clear of the drop zone, and victory over Paul Lambert's visitors would further extend that margin, but Britton is adamant that the Welsh club cannot afford to take their foot of the gas until survival is mathematically assured.

The 29-year-old said: "Our main aim is to survive in the league. That was always the main priority. We are 10th but we need to take one games at a time. We can't afford to get too far ahead of ourselves.

"It's nice because in League Two we didn't get a trip to Tenby let alone Tenerife. I don't know if the chairman would have paid for Butlins back then, but we will make the most of Tenerife."
Leon Britton Quotes of the week

"There was no points target at the start of the season and even now, the gaffer doesn't say anything.

"He just asks us to keep our standards up in training and to play as we did at West Brom last weekend.

Performances

"I don't think we can look any further than our performances, because if we perform to our level, we would hope to win a few of the remaining 14 games."

After being knocked out of the FA Cup by Bolton, Swansea are looking to make the most of a gap weekend in their calendar by going for a week of training in Tenerife following Saturday's match.

And Britton, who has played for the club in all four divisions of the league pyramid, says the trip is a sign of how far the club has come since they were threatened with going out of business and going out of the Football League in the early part of the new Millennium.

"We have a weekend off, so even if we stay in Wales we would be leading to a game with no games," he said.

"It's nice because in League Two we didn't get a trip to Tenby let alone Tenerife.

"I don't know if the chairman would have paid for Butlins back then, but we will make the most of Tenerife."