Due to a series of events I won’t bore you into detailing, I found myself watching AFC Bournemouth at a Canadian bar this weekend - rather than from my usual seat at Dean Court.

When I asked the waitress if she could please put on the “Bournemouth Swansea match” – I made sure to say the names of the teams out as slowly as possible to avoid any possible confusion – I was looked upon as a madman. “Those are two places I’ve never heard spoken aloud before” she responded, a mocking smile creeping across her face.

Despite this road bump the match was put on however, and I was left to enjoy our 3-2 victory in peace - despite some looks of confusion from the locals, as well as almost knocking the coffee out of one of my neighbouring patron’s hands when I jumped for joy as Steve Cook headed in our winner.

This lack of respect for two of the top flight’s most interesting rag to riches success stories from the waitress was largely to be expected of course – they still stubbornly call it soccer over there, and show no signs of wishing to change that attitude – but it’s the reaction from many Swansea fans to our win that I have the most issue with.

Although many acknowledged that the game was a real thriller, and a great spectacle for the neutral – many were more focused on emphasising how losing to Bournemouth was a humiliating experience, and something they simply could not accept under any circumstances.

This has, I’ve found, been the attitude by most opposition fans after losing to little old Bournemouth this season - but I perhaps incorrectly thought that Swans fans might be a little different. Especially as just a few seasons ago they were in a similar position as we are now - a club in the Premier League for the first time in their historu, playing an intriguing brand of football under a promising British manager.

Instead I see comments like “it’s Bournemouth and they played like a Championship side at best” or “that was a game that Bournemouth didn’t win, they were handed it on a plate.”

There were some amusingly snobby comments about how we won by simply lobbing the ball into their box too, whereas they ‘crafted’ their chances supposedly using only the very finest passes available to humanity. The word ‘deluded’ doesn’t even begin to cover it, with the fact we created several other chances in the game through our high tempo and pinpoint passing is conveniently ignored.

It smacks of unfounded arrogance, and although I perhaps shouldn’t expect anything different from fans forums – rarely places where objective opinions thrive - it is still a tad tiresome at times.

Were Swansea guilty of some poor defending then, as many of their fans claim? At times yes, but so were we – and this helped make the game the frantic, open, and engaging contest it turned out to be.

A draw would have perhaps been a fair result on the balance of play, but what was pleasing was how we took our chances when they came along - there’s no doubt in my mind that this would be a game we would’ve lost earlier in the campaign, and would have been accused of having no cutting edge as a result. We’ve developed a real ruthless quality of late, helped no end by Maxi Gradel’s return and Josh King’s development into arguably our best striker.

Swansea were a tidy outfit, and yet we defended manfully when they had their long periods of possession. The way we saw the game out after the winning goal was also a great credit to the squad’s fitness levels.

Ultimately there’s no doubt in my mind that if Swansea had lost this type of game to one of the ‘bigger’ teams many of their fans would have been more positive – looking more upon some of the more positive facets of their performance (such as the desire to battle back after falling behind, and the impressive first half display of Modou Barrow).

But I probably have to accept that some fans will not look upon Bournemouth as a team they should be losing to – no matter how well we play. I just hope some of our support don’t have the same attitude when it comes to smaller clubs if we’re lucky enough to have as long a stay in the top flight as Swansea City.