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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

She really must hate us.

Hot on the heels of the decidedly difficult to decipher just where we stood at the end of them friendlies, against The Basque Country and Trinidad & Tobago, Toshack's first game post-summer against the erratic Bulgarians at a less-than-heaving Liberty Stadium provided cause for justifiable optimism and just the smallest dose of concern.

It's a milestone in more ways than one. It will not only mark the first serious tilt at a qualifying campaign for Welsh boss John Toshack, but also signify the initial competitive outing for a Czech Republic team still reeling from an early exit from the World Cup.

For those of us locked in our darkened rooms in front of widescreen TVs with relationships temporarily put on hold for a month, the World Cup has presented its fair share of logistical and personal problems - not least how to keep the wife, whose name you may or may not have forgotten, from filing for divorce.

For there amongst the St George Crosses and flamboyant Caribbean support, Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham et al will spot a large number of Welsh Dragons proudly draped across the stadium fences.

Every Welsh fan's dream game - Trinidad & Tobago away, was just a cruel apparition of what could have been - sun, sand, sea and sexy soca soccer - instead the hardy travelling 200 Welsh fans had to contend with the delights of the slightly less delicious landlocked Graz.

In putting five past the Estonian keeper the team had recorded their biggest win for 11 years and snared an impressive 7-1 aggregate scoreline to boot.

For the first half hour it was more a case of Norwich canary yellow than Brazilian flair, as a new look Wales side struggled to contain the flow of attacks down the Welsh flanks from a technically superior Basque side.

Despite this startling fact, this is at least the sign of the all new responsible Giggs, a world class player who has never quite reproduced his scintillating club form on the international stage.