Norwich and Swansea are "a credit to the Premier League"

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Norwich and Swansea are “a credit to the Premier League”

Norwich and Swansea have taken the Premier League by storm since winning promotion last season. While the Championship champions Queens Park Rangers have struggled, the runners-up and play-off winners have found the step-up a comfortable one as they continue to hand out footballing lessons week in, week out.

“I think they’ve both been refreshing revelations to the Premier League and proved positive that you don’t have to compromise your principles to be successful,” says the Daily Mirror’s Martin Lipton. “I thought Swansea played Chelsea off the park and they out-passed Arsenal a couple of weeks ago – that doesn’t come through luck, it comes through sheer hard-work and faith in their manager. At Norwich, they play a slightly different way, but they play their way out of trouble and they’re playing the football that got them in the Premier League. They’ve been a credit to themselves as clubs, to the cities they represent and to the Premier League.”

As Martin said, Swansea and Norwich play very different types of football and Brendan Rodgers’ side have played the more eye-catching style so far this season. But if Swansea can do it, surely everyone else can? Not so, says former footballer and journalist Adrian Clarke. “The way Swansea play doesn’t come overnight; that kind of football, that kind of movement and confidence in one another comes over a long period of time. What’s impressed me with Brendan Rodgers is that he had his own philosophy and he just adapted it slightly to the work that [Roberto] Martínez and [Paulo] Sousa had done previously. As an ex-player myself, I wish I had played under him because it must be an absolute joy.”

The two men in charge, Brendan Rodgers and Paul Lambert, are relative youngsters in the world of football management. They’ve worked their way up the leagues and learned some important lessons along the way, and a key reason behind their success is their football education, says David Walker of the Sunday Mirror.

“They have both worked on coaching courses, they have a very broad football education, which I think is great. [José] Mourinho spotted him [Brendan Rodgers] as an outstanding young talent and as we sit here now, we’re thinking: ‘Did Roman Abramovich get the wrong young coach?’ They have both gone through an educational process and it’s a wonderful antidote to those ‘legendary’ England players sitting out there thinking: ‘Who’s going to give me a job? I want a top Premier League job and if it’s not right, I won’t do it’.”

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