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Editor’s Note: We weren’t going to post a tribute to Gary Speed today. What could we say that hasn’t already been said? This morning we were contacted by our resident Championship blogger James Riches, a proud Welshman who wanted to voice his own feelings. We chose to run James’ piece for no other reason than it is a touching personal tribute to a Welsh football legend. RIP Gary Speed, you will be sorely missed.
There have been many times during my years watching Wales that I have thought it couldn’t get any worse than this. Yesterday proved in devastating fashion that I was a fool to think such things.
As I sat on the sofa, nursing a hangover and waiting for kick off at the Liberty Stadium, I heard my girlfriend getting out of bed with an urgency not usually associated with a Sunday morning. When she came in and told me the news that Gary Speed had died I, like everyone else, did not want to believe it.
Re-enter The Dragon – A new beginning for Wales?
by James Riches
Football, as they say, is a funny old game, and this week there is no greater support for that statement than the contrasting feelings of two Home Nations.
On the one hand, you have England, who end the week with two wins from two, four goals scored, none conceded and just one point away from qualification for Euro 2012.
On the other, Wales, bottom of the group with just one win, their qualification hopes long since cut adrift, and for the moment ranked by FIFA as officially worse than such footballing luminaries as Syria, Cuba, Antigua & Barbuda, Guatemala, Guyana and, perhaps most notoriously, the Faroe Islands.
