Chris Coleman has been appointed the new manager of the Welsh national team.

An odd fact associated to the appointment of Chris Coleman is that in March 1994 Wales played Norway in an friendly at Ninian Park. It was the solitary game in John Toshack's first spell as Welsh manager (a spell that lasted for little more than a few weeks).

Misfiring Andy Carroll gives limp Liverpool a new kind of 'Tosh'

• Striker still struggling to justify his £35m transfer fee • 'We've shown we are here to fight,' says Swansea manager The pre-match Remembrance silence here evoked all sorts of memories, of football's past, as well as the fallen.

Keegan: Carroll's the best

Kevin Keegan today hailed Andy Carroll's aerial prowess as the best he's ever seen and is backing the Reds' striker to follow in the footsteps of his former strike partner John Toshack, boss of Swansea when they last played at Anfield in the top flight.

Liverpool 1-1 Norwich City | Premier League match report

Finally at Liverpool, the big number nine was sent on from the bench and saved his side's afternoon with a powerful header at the Kop end of the sort that would have made anyone from Tony Hateley to John Toshack proud.

A few eyebrows were raised in the Kop when Andy Carroll was named in Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool side to face Wolves on Saturday, seemingly out of faith rather than merit.
After all, the £35 million man has been well below-par this season – not least in the 4-0 defeat at Tottenham six days earlier – and Craig Bellamy had looked extremely sharp in the midweek League Cup win at Brighton.

During the final days of Mark Hughes reign at the helm of the Wales national team when the marvellous win in Helsinki and a fully deserved victory over Italy were a fading memory, Welsh fans would often travel to games more in hope than expectation. Then John Toshack came and killed the hope. An inevitable slide down the world rankings ensued with defeats home and away to Russia, Germany and Finland.

Macedonian media has begun to pay attention to Veljko Paunovic's run of form for the Philadelphia Union, naming the midfielder as one of the country's potential internationals to watch.

Despite playing twice for Serbia - when it was still Serbia-Montenegro - in the early part of this millennium, Paunovic is able to make a one-time switch to Macedonia because of FIFA's eligibility rule change in 2009.

Liverpool makes the long trip down to Exeter City in the Carling Cup on Wednesday night and it's vital we play a strong side.
Too often in recent years we've played weakened teams in the competition and been dumped out at an early stage.
Let's go there and get a thumping win to boost confidence ahead of the league game against Bolton next weekend.

Thirty years ago, the football world was a very different place. What we now take to be the Premier League was still the First Division of the Football League, three points for a win were just about to be introduced as Aston Villa won their first league championship since 1910, having fielded just fourteen players all season, and Nottingham Forest had surrendered their name as the champions of Europe after two years with a 2-0 aggregate defeat at the hands of CSKA Sofia in the First Round of the European Cup the previous September, but still finished the season in a creditable seventh place in the table.

By Dominic Vieira, writing from Lancaster, England
38 or 39, does it really matter? No! But to the Madristas or fanatical MARCA journalists it certainly does; that debate can take place elsewhere. A player who has scored 52 goals in 53 season appearances is sensational and that's a word which can describe Cristiano Ronaldo.

Things are getting quite congested at the top of the Championship. Just six points separate second placed Norwich City from Nottingham Forest in sixth place in the table and, should Queens Park Rangers find themselves being docked points over the Alejandro Faurlin, even the relatively comfortable gap between them and the chasing pack they are seven points clear of Norwich and ten ahead of third placed Swansea City even that could start to crumble.

New boss Gary Speed takes charge of Wales for the first time tonight as his side faces the Republic of Ireland in the newly formed Nations Cup.
The former Wales skipper, who has only four months managerial experience with Championship side Sheffield United, will go up against Italian legend Giovanni Trapattoni; winner of seven Italian league titles and five European tournaments – including the European Cup with Juventus.