Road to nowhere

Posted by Andy Rose on January 31, 2007 11:52 AM

A new study has found that football fans travel nine BILLION miles supporting their teams each season.

Any Swansea supporter making the roadwork interrupted nine-hour round trip to Ipswich last weekend in the FA Cup must have felt like they were doing it all in one go!

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Wrexham's most wanted

Posted by Andy Rose on January 12, 2007 5:11 PM

In their dire league position Wrexham need an experienced manager, used to scrapping it out in the lower divisions, able to work on a shoe-string budget and someone who is 100 per cent committed to the cause.

Sounds like Denis Smith to me. Shame they sacked him on Thursday.

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Crunch time

Posted by Andy Rose on January 5, 2007 4:42 PM

Transfer windows come and go these days, but the wheeling and dealing to be done over the next three weeks could have huge consequences for Welsh football.

By the end of this season Wales could have a Premiership club to call its own for the very first time, another in its highest league position for more than 20 years and see the other drop out of the league altogether.

This looks set to be a make or break period for each of the ‘big three’ of Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham.

And if you don’t think it is as serious as all that then it’s time to think again.

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The untouchables

Posted by Andy Rose on January 4, 2007 5:20 PM

The one thing that the sacking of Rangers boss Paul Le Guen has proved today is that certain players, in this case, Barry Ferguson are untouchable.

The moment that a manager realises this, is the time he should start packing his bags.

Unfortunately Le Guen realised too late to save his own Gallic bacon.

At least Swansea City boss Kenny Jackett is holding firm over Leon Knight, who he insists will never play for the club again despite returning from a loan spell at Barnsley.

Knight is no Ferguson but the sudden expulsion of any player has the capacity to lose a manager his dressing room and eventually his job, especially when that player is - or was - his top scorer.

Kenny this blog salutes you.

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