I promised I’d write about Wales today so here it is. What are they doing differently from the England set up? In a short answer, everything. Their rise started a few years ago. This bunch of Welsh players played together in the Welsh youth teams as they came up through the youth ranks and as a result they know each other very well. Some got their first start from the then manager John Toshack who knew he wouldn’t see the benefit and took criticism because they weren’t quite

Let’s talk about the Euro 2016 and specifically England and Wales. Two national teams with two different expectations and two very different outcomes. To start with, England went into the competition with all the usual expectation of doing well. Admittedly that meant just getting to the semi-finals as opposed to winning the tournament and in true England football team style failed to deliver. Playing badly from the start they failed to win a group that they really should have