Swansea 0 Tottenham 2: Observations from the Liberty Stadium

This is how January nights in south Wales are supposed to look and feel. Icy wind swirling, heavy rain dancing in the floodlights. This is certainly how January is supposed to be in Swansea, challenged on every side as the club is by acrimony and subterfuge. Dissent towards embattled chairman Huw Jenkins periodically chorused through the weather and the natives weren’t short of disapproval for their players, either.

For Tottenham, it was the quintessential British challenge: the kind of the game which is supposed to send the weak-hearted scurrying for gloves and snoods.

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Seb Stafford-Bloor is a football writer at Tifo Football and member of the Football Writers' Association. He was formerly a regularly columnist for the FourFourTwo website, covering all aspects of the game, including tactical analysis, reaction pieces, longer-term trends and critiquing the increasingly shady business of football's financial side and authorities' decision-making.