A busy week in Welsh Football

Development of Welsh Football

It has been a strange and busy week in the life of every Welsh football fan. From the results of Cyprus and San Marino in October which lead to many to dissbelive in John Tosshack and his regime, to now many seeing the fruit's of his labour with highly reccomendable results v Ireland and Germany.

As many know it is either John Toshacks way or the high way, see Robbie Savage and co for that?! When it comes down to his style of management - he is well known for his youth development and he has carried it on here in Wales. Tosshack has re-structured the development stream Welsh football with Bryan Flynn, Ian Rush, Neville Southall and many other ex Wales players helping to develop the future footballing talent. Even injured Wales Captain Craig Bellemy came to talk to the under 21's before there game v France last week.

Through this hard work and commitment we are now seeing the positive change in all age range's. Working bottom up it has created a bright future for Wales. England take notice!

It was only a few years ago when Wales under 21's had gone somthing like 19 games without a win!! Now they stand high and proud with wins over France, Bosnia, Malta and Sweeden in the past year- With the Wales team having an average age of 18 against France under 21's.

Celtic Cup

We can not stop at this, there is allways a need to improve. From the results of Wales and Wales under 21's this week was'nt enough for every Wales Fan, the calls for a so called Nations Cup, or should i call it Celtic Cup between Wales, Ireland, Northen Ireland and Scotland have grown and looks enreasingly likely with Gordon Brown, Nationwide and many others getting behind the idea.

In my opinion this will be great and what is needed in British football, but with the amount of football fixtures nowerday's, i would call for the so 'Celtic Cup' to be a under 23's international. This would then help develop and increase the international experiance of the younger generation and would then help each home nations chances in the European Championships and World Cup's.

World Cup Draw

And so the week come's to an end, and here we have the 2010 World Cup Draw!!
If the idea of the future of the Wales football team and the Celtic Cup was'nt enough, the World Cup brings somthing extra!!

Germany, Russia, Ffinland, Wales, Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein

Was the names pulled out of the hat!

Not the best draw but could of been so much worse. In my heart I can see Wales finishing second but in my head a creadle Third. The draw brings back memory's from the play off's with Russia, and then for some reason we keep on getting Azerbaijan- i think there might need to open a Welsh Embessey in Baku!

So i predict

Azerbaijan - 6 points
Liechtenstein - 6 points
Ffinland - 4 points
Russia - 3 points
Germany - 1 point

Wales finishing with 20 points.

But has the World Cup draw come too early for the youth of Wales, or can the Celtic Cup help develop and bring us a step closer to reach our goal and qualify for the World Cup in 2010?