I took a day off to clean up around the house and pack. Took a break to watch Swansea City poach three points off Arsenal. It wasn’t the most exciting ninety minutes of sport, but it was an effective display of bend-not-break defending. Always good to see a top-four club get their noses tweaked.
And the soap opera near the drop zone of the Premier League–what’s up with that? In American sport, bottom dwellers maneuver for a top draft pick from college ranks. In Britain, they open the drain to let the bottom three drop. Watching Newcastle unravel these past few weeks is sort of like watching a disaster in slow motion. I was wondering if they were going to be one of the sides to get relegated.
And what if a team gets relegated, but the next league down doesn’t want them? Far more interesting than watching the NFL-NCAA meat market.
Go Swans. 6th place has a nice ring to it.
Three months of off-season coming up. Time to catch up on soccer stateside.
Catholic Sensibility 
Great win. With Chelsea having won the Capital One Cup and Arsenal likely, isn’t 7th the magic spot for Europe?
7th place unless Villa take the FA Cup. But Spurs and Southampton are both reeling a bit, and 6th place will be a guarantee. Never in American sport would a 6th place finish be considered a plum.