A few pix from today:

This is just a general view including local scene in background:



These are the 2 number 8s - Samantha Jones and Natalia Menyaylova, with gk Elena Kochneva in between at the back

Nice report Twm and great pics too Thank you.

I've spent about 3 hours trying to get imageshack working tonight - that's the best I could produce, sorry

I'll try and get more sorted, unless you have had enough of Wales of course

We could never have enough of Wales mate. Nice report BTW C.

And you'll notice a pic of a player you've seen before

You've taken a shine to her haven't you?

Who? Me?

Yes - and she's a good player too

Here's another pic from today:

Loren Dykes having a look at the Russian skipper Maria Filisova

Except she isn't looking at her!

Well - she did look she was when I first looked at it

Sorry, i just had to say it. Nice pic! I do think i should ring this number eight though... Warn her about you!

She only speaks Russian

How about Samantha Jones and Gwennan Harries? - not looking at each other



And don't forget - I only follow women's footie because of a little comment I made on this forum

How do you know i am not fluent in russian?

Вы говорите на русском языке?

Да я делаю клайва

You must have a chat to Sasha then

He needs a tic for Arsenal - Umea game

Denmark 1-1 Norway
Romania 1-0 Belgium
Spain 3-1 Switzerland
Italy 6-0 Serbia
Czech Republic England 0-2
Ukraine Austria 1-0
Wales 2-1 Finland
Russia 0-1 Poland
Germany 3-0 Scotland
Hungary 3-1 Sweden

Poland 1 Russia 0

Played at Flint


Wales 2 Finland 1

Played at Rhyl

I went to the Wales game believing that Wales were already out of this group, but it seems that Russia had fielded an ineligible player against Wales (apparently should have been suspended through yellow cards), and it was possible that Wales were back in with a shout.

It turned out that Poland secured the group by beating Russia, but if Russia had not missed a penalty, it might have been totally different depending on whatever UEFA decided.

The early stages showed Finland to be the more skillful, but Wales showed a lot of spirit, and took the lead through Kayleigh Greening. Finland fought back and equalised after a nice run and shot by (I think) Linda Sallstrom.
It was a fair scoreline for the half.

In the second half, Shan Jones came on and changed the game with her running at the defence. Wales broke through several times and eventually Gwennan Harries got the winner.

Both teams had come close, especially from corners, and Finland thought they'd equalised late on after they'd increased their pressure, but it was ruled offside:



I'd like to post some nice action pics, but haven't really got any decent ones , but Ron should be posting some tomorrow.

But here's a pic of the Finnish team before ko:



The normal team photo I took was blurred, as was the one of the Wales line-up - my photography is crap (where are you when you are needed Agent S? ).

But here's one of Jessi Hietanen and Carla Parfitt, with Nicola Cousins and Lauren Townsend behind them:



I'd like to thank the FAW official who saw Ron with his camera and me writing down the team numbers - he gave us official FAW bibs so we could go anywhere, and also an official teamsheet, and said we could help ourselves to programmes.

Nice one

Nice official, you and Ron are lucky lads
Nice picks C, you finally got to see Wales score and win

Nice pics Clive

HAHAHAHAHA!
Oh how I love the online translators! They're as crap as it gets!
What you wrote, my dear floody, means "I do Clive" as in you doing him
- it doesn't mean, "yes I do, Clive" HAHAHAHAHA!

Thanks for updating the thread guys!
Some shocking results there, like Sweden v Hungary