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No joking, it’s Dean Saunders

BEING on the management side of a Wales team meeting will be nothing new for my old mate Dean Saunders. Read

Departures will come before arrivals

DAVE Jones has been told: “No more signings unless other players go out.” Read

Rooney’s feet overshadow Delaney woes

THE precarious nature of a footballer’s career was illustrated this week with the retirement of Wales defender Mark Delaney. Read

Delaney was real Wales star

MARK DELANEY, like Chris Coleman, is the second top Wales defender who has been forced to call time on his career already in this millennium. Read

City stars open with goals galore - for their new clubs!

FOOTBALL has a habit of biting clubs in the backside - and Saturday was no exception. Read

Early days, but City need punch up front

DAVE Jones said after Cardiff City’s defeat to Stoke on Saturday that he expected the doom and gloom merchants to come out of the woodwork immediately. Read

Jones committed to the cause of City’s excellence

DAVE Jones is relentless in his pursuit of Cardiff City perfection. Read

End foreign imports before game suffers

SO, the new league season has finally arrived – and we’re promised more thrills, more spills and more televised matches than ever before. Read

Fowler will be City’s essential ingredient

IT’S a relief to hear that Robbie Fowler’s thigh strain is not serious, and that he’ll almost certainly be fit to face Stoke City on Saturday. Read

I’m backing a Wales treble

IT’S been a summer to forget but I’ve got a feeling this could be a season to remember for our boys. Read

Purse and Scimeca beat snarl-ups

QUICK-THINKING Darren Purse and Riccy Scimeca beat the traffic this week – and made it from their home in the West Midlands to Treforest, just off the A470 near Caerphilly, on time for training. Read

A bump on the head fails to deter City Doc

Football is a physical game and keeping City players healthy is the job of Dr Len Nokes, TERRY PHILLIPS catches up with team doctor Read

Leeson nets top job at Galway United

NICK Leeson, the former trader who caused the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995, has landed the top job at Galway United Football Club in Ireland. Read

No Welsh stars to put your money on

THERE’S a distinct lack of a Celtic connection in a poll to find the first sporting figure people would like to see on a Bank of England note. Read

Promotion is built on a tight defence

IT’S an old saying that football has a habit of biting you on the backside when you least expect it. Read

Don’t tell me this does not matter

REMEMBER the scene four years ago? There you were around the breakfast table with your child beaming up at the kitchen door and those two tickets for Wales-England hanging off the magnet. Read

Soggy Purse caught out by flooded ford

DARREN Purse was caught out by the floods as he returned from Cardiff to the Midlands. Read

Robbie's arrival a taste of Becks

A LOT of footballing water has passed under the Boot Room bridge over the years, but there’s hardly been a week like this one. Read

Fowler can be ‘God’ at Ninian as well

THEY nicknamed Robbie Fowler ‘God’ at Liverpool. And he can achieve the same status at Cardiff City if he does the business and fires the Bluebirds to the Premiership. Read