WHAT a pity all Americans aren't as refreshingly entertaining as Bob Bradley looks like being.
Just when Donald Trump looks like showering his country in shame up pops a man most Yanks have probably hardly heard of with a breath of fresh air brand of football that for a while overshadowed all that nasty stuff from back home.
If anyone thought rookie Bob doesn't know what he's doing they would do well to have a look at the Premier League highlights on telly this morning.
What they will see is, in the main, a thoroughly entertaining 90 minutes in which Bradley's Swans played a significant part and which promises much less of a struggle for them than the league table suggests right now.
To be honest, he must have thought he'd really cracked it for the best part of half an hour - but then came his first dose of Premier League reality.
After seeing his new boys seemingly weather the early storm - and some sumptuous stuff from Arsenal - a cock up of the calamitous type brought him into the real world this side of the pond.
Lukasz Fabianski, back on his old stomping ground, conspired with Jordi Amat to hand his old pal Theo Walcott the first of two goals in six minutes on a plate.
The second wasn't the keeper's fault, but the men in front of him were when Walcott was given more time and space than he might reasonably have expected to fire home from little more than five yards out.
But then Arsenal, or Granit Xhaka to be precise, got in on the cock ups act presenting Gylfi Sigurdsson with a goal that Swansea hadn't remotely looked like getting until then
What Arsene Wenger made of that will probably remain between him and his guilty midfielder. What Mr Bradley thought will be considerably more positive.
On the balance of play up until then, Realism was, however, restored eight minutes into the second half with an Arsenal third that they will be talking about in these parts for some time to come.
Sanchez's super cross was top drawer. The manner in which Mesut Ozil got on the end of it was something else.
It's a wonder the ball didn't go through the net and into the crowd, such was the force Ozil hit it with.
Mind you, Swansea's second goal was nearly as good.
The impressive Modou Barrow took Nacho Monreal to the cleaners good and proper before cutting the ball back to substitute Norja Baston, who had been in the field little more than five minutes.
His finish really had 'em singing in the Welsh section of the stand as well as those famous hillsides, no doubt.
Cursing is a more appropriate word to describe how Arsenal must have felt when they were reduced to ten men soon afterwards.
They could have had few complaints, though, as Xhaka completed a woefulafternoon for him with a nasty cynical attempt at a tackle to stop Barrow that justifiably got him his marching orders.
But there weren't many on either side who wouldn't have agreed that this had turned into a cracking match in which Walcott could, and should, have had a hat-trick.
Or that, in the end, Arsenal weren't hanging on for grim death with their fans whistling desperately for the final whistle.Bob Bradley will have loved every minute of it.
Arsenal: Cech; Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal; Cazorla, Xhaka; Walcott, Ozil (Oxlade-Chamberlain 82), Iwobi (Coquelin 67); Sanchez (Gibbs 82).
Swansea City: Fabianski; Naughton, Fernandez, Amat, Taylor; Cork (Ki 71); Britton (Baston 60), Fer; Barrow (Rangel 84) , Sigurdsson, Routledge.
Man Of Match: Theo Walcott. Two good goals - and he could have had at least two more - given the accolade. But one or two others ran him close.
Referee: Jon Moss.
If anyone thought rookie Bob doesn't know what he's doing they would do well to have a look at the Premier League highlights on telly this morning.
What they will see is, in the main, a thoroughly entertaining 90 minutes in which Bradley's Swans played a significant part and which promises much less of a struggle for them than the league table suggests right now.
To be honest, he must have thought he'd really cracked it for the best part of half an hour - but then came his first dose of Premier League reality.
After seeing his new boys seemingly weather the early storm - and some sumptuous stuff from Arsenal - a cock up of the calamitous type brought him into the real world this side of the pond.
Lukasz Fabianski, back on his old stomping ground, conspired with Jordi Amat to hand his old pal Theo Walcott the first of two goals in six minutes on a plate.
The second wasn't the keeper's fault, but the men in front of him were when Walcott was given more time and space than he might reasonably have expected to fire home from little more than five yards out.
But then Arsenal, or Granit Xhaka to be precise, got in on the cock ups act presenting Gylfi Sigurdsson with a goal that Swansea hadn't remotely looked like getting until then
What Arsene Wenger made of that will probably remain between him and his guilty midfielder. What Mr Bradley thought will be considerably more positive.
On the balance of play up until then, Realism was, however, restored eight minutes into the second half with an Arsenal third that they will be talking about in these parts for some time to come.
Sanchez's super cross was top drawer. The manner in which Mesut Ozil got on the end of it was something else.
It's a wonder the ball didn't go through the net and into the crowd, such was the force Ozil hit it with.
Mind you, Swansea's second goal was nearly as good.
The impressive Modou Barrow took Nacho Monreal to the cleaners good and proper before cutting the ball back to substitute Norja Baston, who had been in the field little more than five minutes.
His finish really had 'em singing in the Welsh section of the stand as well as those famous hillsides, no doubt.
Cursing is a more appropriate word to describe how Arsenal must have felt when they were reduced to ten men soon afterwards.
They could have had few complaints, though, as Xhaka completed a woefulafternoon for him with a nasty cynical attempt at a tackle to stop Barrow that justifiably got him his marching orders.
But there weren't many on either side who wouldn't have agreed that this had turned into a cracking match in which Walcott could, and should, have had a hat-trick.
Or that, in the end, Arsenal weren't hanging on for grim death with their fans whistling desperately for the final whistle.Bob Bradley will have loved every minute of it.
Arsenal: Cech; Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal; Cazorla, Xhaka; Walcott, Ozil (Oxlade-Chamberlain 82), Iwobi (Coquelin 67); Sanchez (Gibbs 82).
Swansea City: Fabianski; Naughton, Fernandez, Amat, Taylor; Cork (Ki 71); Britton (Baston 60), Fer; Barrow (Rangel 84) , Sigurdsson, Routledge.
Man Of Match: Theo Walcott. Two good goals - and he could have had at least two more - given the accolade. But one or two others ran him close.
Referee: Jon Moss.
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