Swansea v Stoke (20:00 GMT)

Hello. It’s Swansea City v Stoke City on a Monday night and the reason you’re not excited is because you’re a snob who judges a book by its cover. Oh yes, the gloves are off. Shame on you! Shame! Look at Swansea. Great club, excellent manager, interesting players. Garry Monk has done a terrific job, they still play fine football and they’ve got Jefferson Montero, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Andre Ayew and Bafetimbi Gomis.

A tastier collection of players than Stoke’s? Arguably. But Stoke, once so crude and unloveable, have had a makeover and can now boast about a squad containing Bojan Krkic, Xherdan Shaqiri, Marko Arnautovic and Ibrahim Affelay. They’ve not started the season too smartly but Mark Hughes’s sides sometimes take a while to get going. After two wins on the bounce, they’re beginning to click, so leave any pre-conceived ideas you may have at the door, come on in and enjoy the game. This could be good! Unless it’s not, in which case we reserve the right to heap scorn on both sides.

Swansea: Fabianski; Rangel, Fernandez, Williams, Taylor; Cork, Shelvey; Barrow, Ayew, Montero; Gomis. Subs: Nordfeldt, Naughton, Bartley, Britton, Sigurdsson, Ki, Eder.

Stoke: Butland; Johnson, Cameron, Wollscheid, Pieters; Whelan, Adam; Shaqiri, Bojan, Arnautovic; Joselu. Subs: Haugaard, Muniesa, Ireland, Wilson, Affelay, Van Ginkel, Crouch.

Referee: Robert Madley.

Swansea getting refballed to hell at their own damn pitch

anti-Welsh prejudice confirmed, especially since Ashley Williams is getting the worst of it