In 2013, the club won its first major trophy in more than a century of existence, claiming what is now known as the EFL Cup at Wembley. The club is 19th in the Premier League, level on points with rock-bottom Sunderland. Bradley has spent much of his career awaiting a chance in the Premier League. After the gleeful metamorphosis into a fixture in the Premier League, there is now the grudging mutation from local institution into international concern. Swansea was different; now it looks like any other Premier League club, owned from afar, its only ambition to survive, thinking from one game to the next.

Source: New York Times November 06, 2016 20:36 UTC