NINE months after John Toshack left Wales the true ramifications of his disastrous reign are now apparent.
This week Wales fell into the bottom tier of European football. Even worse was that Wales should have been there long before a student from the Faroe Islands raised doubts over the validity of the FIFA rankings.
If you remember Toshack was always going on about the seeds being sown for the future.
Well, here it is. If you imagine the Welsh FA is the mother in the relationship with the national team its child then Gary Speed is the step father brought in to try and save the troubled child.
The child (Welsh football) is now in the same class as San Marino, Andorra and Kazakhstan. The real bottom feeders of European football and countries some would like to see go through a pre-qualifying tournament.
Yes. The situation is now that bad.
It is hard to blame Gary Speed. I do not think he is the man to save Welsh football but nor is he the one to blame for its latest humiliation.
I'm afraid the blame lies squarely at the feet of mom and pops. That's right, the blinkered mum that is the FAW and the belligerent dad (Tosh) who refused to alter his course which saw Wales spiral into a third world footballing nation.
Let's get this into context. San Marino is the size of a town. Andorra the size of an even smaller town and Kazakhstan is one of the poorest nations in Europe. None of these nations have had the benefits of unbroken FIFA membership and funding like the Welsh FA.
So it raises the question that a country like Wales which is the size of World Cup semi-finalists Uruguay with a similar population has sunk to a new low in its football history.
The Welsh FA, like a blinkered mother, will never accept it was wrong to the point of insane by standing by Toshack for six of the bleakest years in Welsh football history from 2004 to 2010.
Nor will absent dad Toshack ever take responsibility for the absolute failure of his Welsh team on his watch.
However Wales' plummet to the European footballing outhouse means that it is now clearer than ever that both are to blame for the six year disaster which will take decades, if at all, to get rectify.
If nothing else this is another indicator that something has to change in the way football is run in this country.
If nothing else, perhaps we now have a model to copy, who would have thought it would the Faroe Isles leading the way for Wales.