Friday on my mind

So, a perfect autumn morning, blue skies, red-gold leaves starting to fall on top of ones that already fell in August, kids back to school, day off, its only natural that ones thoughts should settle on ... what .. well, Paul Gerrard's groin of course, which apparently is only tweaked, and he should be back shortly, which is good, since Roche doesn't have a very good goals per game average at the moment, and the other keeper is only about 17 & got sent off in a reserve team match this week.

Since Forest Blog HQ is in South Wales, near Cardiff, not far from the M4 corridor, round a corner and in a room next door to the vending machine, I have more than a passing interest in the upcoming World Cup Qualifiers, which pit England against Wales. Even though Sir Clive and Rupert Lowe are clearly bonkers, and must have had one or two too many G & T's one night, nevertheless, one can't help thinking that Mark Hughes would probably do a better job with the Welsh rugby team than whichever top name they've got installed at the moment.

It's hard not to feel that the Welsh team may well have peaked half way thru the Euro 2004 qualifiers, and may struggle to recapture whatever it was they had when they were on that particular roll. We'll see.

And another thing ...

And don't get me started on the welsh language issue. Look you.

And The Libertines new record is fab, and not at all a record of the weak. And now we know What Became Of The Likely Lads ...