I'm pretty sure that it was nothing to do with the Swansea connection, but, for me, Monk came over as one of the least impressive managers interviewed in this superb book
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Volc...ct_top?ie=UTF8
I thought there was an arrogance and a sense that he thought he had "cracked" the job in his first year at the Liberty which made what happened to him subsequently less of a surprise.