Sinclair Is Swansea's Superhero

It's not often you see a cup final, of any kind, that is blessed with an array of goals from two teams that are completely attack minded. Well today we were given six goals at Wembley as Swansea and Reading battled for the final place in next season's Premiership.

Reading ultimately started the game off better and had the best opening chances to take the lead. But football isn't always a kind game and Reading found themselves 1-0 down just after twenty minutes; Khizanishvili brought Dyer down in the box and referee Phil Dowd had no choice but to point to the spot and arguably should have sent the already booked Khizanishvili off. Former Chelsea youngster Scott Sinclair stepped up and sent Federici the wrong way. Reading were reeling and a quick breakaway saw Swansea double their lead a minute later with Sinclair getting his second goal of the game. It looked to be all but over when Dobbie tapped home to make it 3-0 Swansea five minutes before half-time.

Reading showed signs of distaste at half-time as substitute Jay Tabb and Reading's assistant manager were both sent off for dissent towards Dowd in the tunnel, although Dowd seemed to have done nothing wrong throughout the game. But Reading were fired up for the second half and came out the better side, they managed to pull a goal back four minutes after the restart when Hunt headed a corner past De Vries and the unattended front post. Swansea didn't learn their lesson and Reading made it 3-2 when captain Mills headed from another corner eight minutes later. It should have been 3-3 but Jimmy Kebe was denied by the post before Hunt's follow up was blocked by the toe of Williamson. The match was sealed though, ten minutes from time Andy Griffin decided to lunge in on Borini and Dowd had no choice but to award another penalty. Again Sinclair stepped up and went the same way with Federici millimetres away from saving it, but Sinclair had his hat-trick and Swansea will become the first Welsh team in the Premiership.

Yesterday saw Peterborough become the latest boing-boing club. They met Huddersfield at Old Trafford in the League One playoff final and Darren Ferguson's secured a late victory. Goals from Tommy Rowe (78), Craig Mackail-Smith (80) and Grant McCann (85) made it 3-0 within seven minutes to secure their Championship place after being relegated from there last season.