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Wales 4-0 Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein may not be the world's greatest footballing superpower, residing some 150 places below the upper echelons of football's mighty power brokers at 161st in the world rankings, yet you can only beat what is put in front of you, as the old adage goes and Wales certainly achieved that with some aplomb on a cold and rainy night in Wrexham.

Despite including the Serie A's joint top scorer in Siena's Mario Frick, the Liechtenstein team showed that while they might be a match for San Marino and Andorra, against a Welsh line-up boasting an all-firing front five of Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy, Simon Davies, Jason Koumas and Robert Earnshaw, they were simply out-classed.

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Wales 3-1 Cyprus

It's official, John Toshack is a football genius.

Despite my reservations about the big man's system, Toshack more than proved why he's the manager of the Wales football team and I'm writing this blog.

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Who would want to be in John Toshack's shoes today?

A mere 72 hours after the Millennium Stadium horror show, with visions of Saturday no doubt still fresh in his mind, Tosh has much to ponder - not least who starts against Cyprus tomorrow night.

Continue reading "Questions, questions, questions..." »

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Wales 1-5 Slovakia

The writing was on the wall, well the side of someone's head, even before this Euro 2008 qualifier kicked off.

You know it isn't your day when your goalkeeper's hair-raising crop comes close to predicting the final scoreline.

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Despite having severe reservations about Wales' tussle with world football's answer to the Harlem Globetrotters, the end result wasn't quite as terrifying as most, me included, had feared.

That we held the likes of superstars Ronaldinho, Kaka and Julio Baptista to a 0-0 scoreline at half-time was an achievement in itself, but if Earnie had tucked away the best chance of the first half when through on goal, then who knows what the end result may have been.

Continue reading "Bale is almost Brazil-iant" »

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So who thinks tomorrow evening's international friendly match up at Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart Lane between Wales and the footballing superstars of Brazil is an exercise in ultimate futility put in place for one reason and one reason only - money.

Money walks and bullsh*t talks goes the saying and FAW Secretary general David Collins has been spouting enough of it in a vain attempt to talk up this poorly timed match.

Continue reading "Samba match is Brazil nuts" »

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It's hard to imagine what terrible fate has befallen Welsh football for it to be so miserably conspired against by Lady Luck.

She really must hate us.

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