Super Soccer

Anyone who fears the Premier League is losing its sparkle should spend 90 minutes in the company of joyous Swansea supporters who are serving to remind even the harshest sceptic that this game can turn fantasy into reality.

While this may just have been another league fixture for a Manchester United team who knew they could not lose any more ground on local rivals City after their victory over Newcastle earlier in the day, the date of Saturday, November 19, 2011 has long been circled in the diary of Swansea fans as being their brightest time in the spotlight.

It lived up to its billing as not even the defeat inflicted upon Brendan Rodgers and his gallant team could dilute an occasion that was as grand as any this club has played host to in this or any other generation, a celebration of all things Welsh on a day when the eyes of the world and the ESPN TV cameras focused their attention on the success story that is Swansea City.