Beeb Artikull on Welsh Football

Quite an interesting read and I guess for a nation with only 3 million people, Wales has had a fairly consistent run of talent.Being integrated with the English footballing structure has no doubt helped the cause but saying that, no World Class defenders though

The school I went to was very pro-rugby, which was a real shame as we had some half decent footballers in that school but they were thoroughly neglected. What were everyone else's schools like?

Linky: Wales Football Talent Conveyor Belt

Yeah, my school was all about the rugger.

Rugby in the winter, athletics and occasionally cricket in the summer.

We had an English sports teacher for a year and he let us play football but he left under a cloud.

A rugby boy replaced him and it was back to standing in a freezing cold field avoiding the ball for an hour every week..

All rugby when I was at school. Football was very much recreational that we played in our own time. When we had the choice, of course, rugby never got a look in.

All about rugby where I lived but our outside halves invariably went on to be very good footballers a couple having trials one an apprentice with Arsenal under Charlie Nicholas... Unsurprisingly it all ended in tears and a coke habit

Ha! So, sounds like we all had very similar school experiences...and yet football still thrives in South Wales despite the rugger-bugger PE teachers.

All my present day negative connotations around rugby all stem from freezing my nuts off on a rock hard pitch in the middle of January. To this day I always make sure that my brussel sprouts are warm and cosy in the winter months.

All rugby where I was but it helped being undefeated (Cardiff inter schools) for almost two seasons. Scored a lovely try once from twenty yards out with the entire opposition hanging off me.