Everybody loves the Swans! Three more goals make for eight in total and triangles all over the pitch have the media pundits lining up with the praise – this is Swansea City, let’s enjoy the ride
Two games in, six points, eight goals, two clean sheets and second only to a Chelsea side that have already played their third game of the season. Five different goalscorers and I dread to think how many successful passes have been completed in the two games and we even have people saying that we may barely have got out of second gear in those games as well!
As I watched back yesterday’s game on the wonderful invention that was Sky Plus that was a period in the second half where we controlled the ball for over two and a half minutes (bar a deperate touch from James Collins) and completed well over 50 passes during that period. The ball went from our box to theirs and back at least twice and I think every player touched the ball on at least two occasions. Had Wayne Routledge been able to get the shot away and grab the fourth goal of the way it would have surely been hailed as one of the best goals ever to grace the Premier League. West Ham were simply chasing shadows against a side that is so high on confidence it is not real.
This time last week I was commenting on a five goal demolition of QPR, this time it is three over West Ham and next week we could go into the international break as the best side in the country on form to date.
And what is starting to feel more positive is the talk around the Liberty of the players coming in which is strengthening the squad even more. Before the game yesterday we paraded record signing Ki Sung-Yeung to the 20,494 Liberty crowd, by the end of the game people were already starting to debate where he would fit into the squad. We are still looking at Pablo Hernandez as a replacement for Scott Sinclair and the papers also link us with Thomas Ince. This isn’t now becoming what we were last season (a good team) but what we really need at this level which is a really good squad.
And whilst it is still too early to start counting the £60m TV revenue that Premier League clubs will receive next season it is certainly starting to feel that we can stay up again with some ease and become even ore attractive to watch then we were last season. The football last year was pretty, this is pretty football with a cutting edge!
For anybody that was around 10 years ago this is nothing more than a dream. I sat and stared at the league table at 2.30 yesterday afternoon and realise that within ten years I have seen my side looking up at the other 91 clubs and also looking down at all 91 of them. Some achievement.
Of course the sentiments of ‘not getting carried away’ ring true and nobody is dreaming of anything crazy like league titles at the end of it but this is a very good side that is getting stronger and gaining more strength in depth at the same time. Come Friday we will know what hand Michael has dealt us to take us through until January but there is little doubt that we will go into September with a stronger squad then we had at the beginning of August.
Sit back and enjoy the ride but the Swansea City train is at full speed at the moment.
