AS a football, golf and boxing writer for a Welsh newspaper, you could forgive me having a victim complex this week.

Because much like Mario Balotelli, I feel I must ask, why always us? Why do the Welsh get delivered the sporting short straw so many times?

In the week where

A) Football: Wales is the only bidding country from Britain or Ireland that doesn't get to host Euro 2020 games

B) Golf: Wales lost their only European Tour event, meaning they are now likely to be the only home nation set to be off the schedule completely in 2015

C) Boxing: Wales' top fighter Nathan Cleverly is set to have his grudge match with Tony Bellew announced, the bout set for Bellew's home town of Liverpool, just like the first fight...

Why always us?!

While I'll accept the answer to c) is that the Motorpoint Arena isn't big enough and it would've been in Sheffield if Kell Brook didn't get stabbed in Spain, it is pretty hard not to feel blue over categories a) and b).

So much so, that it's easier to be angry, especially over the staging of the European Championships in Dublin, Glasgow and London, but not Cardiff.

The Millennium Stadium is a magnificent sporting arena and Wales was praised to the hilt for the staging of the European Super Cup, but that apparently has meant nothing.

And UEFA President Michel Platini explaining that Scotland, which beat Wales by a solitary vote, were helped by the death of popular executive David Taylor, really rubs salt into the wounds.

He said: “Taylor was a man greatly loved and it may be that held some weight when it came to the choice of making Glasgow one of the host cities.”

What are we to infer from that? That Wales had the better bid but not a sentimental reason to be picked? Or that like FIFA, UEFA don't want anyone to think they have a selection process that is fair?

Once again the staging of a major football tournament is contentious, only this time it's only Wales, so who cares? Imagine if Cardiff has been picked but Wembley excluded? We would never hear the end of it.

This is a sad snub for Wales after a significant financial outlay to bring games here and to be involved in a major footballing tournament, a once in a generation chance for most.

And frankly, the whole tournament concept in 2020 is a farce and that isn't just sour grapes, I was tweeting as much before the Welsh snub.

The logistics of this European-wide tournament in 2020 will make it a nightmare for many and the selection process for host cities doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

Why were Russia even eligible (and they won) to host games in the Euros just two years after they get an entire World Cup? How can that possibly be viewed as fair?

And don't even get me started on why Baku might not be the shrewdest choice, being that it creates loads more travelling for everyone involved in games there. The venue that will disadvantage teams drawn to play there, that everyone will privately hope to avoid. Sounds brilliant.

Wales have made so much progress in a football sense in the past decade, two sides in the Premier League last season and Dragon Park being a runaway success story for the British game as a whole.

Yet when it really mattered we weren't considered worthy of sitting at the big boy table. It just doesn't seem fair.

As for the golf, I have more mixed feelings on the end of the Celtic Manor Wales Open.

It's a wonderful privilege to host a European Tour event and perhaps, considering we had the even bigger honour of hosting the Ryder Cup, it's a privilege we have taken for granted.

The event hasn't been well supported by the Welsh public, especially since 2010 and a medium to low purse has ensured the top players generally haven't come here.

Even the addition of Lee Westwood and a further trio of Ryder Cup stars last week didn't really add any gravitas in the eyes of the fans, with the event also suffering through the years by generally having unfavourable dates clashing with big tournaments in the US.

Frankly, as a custom-built golf course/sporting venue for a big audience, I can understand why the Celtic Manor didn't fight tooth and nail to keep an event they probably see as being a little beneath them.

I have no reason to disbelieve their assertion that big time golf will return to Newport, but it's a further blow to the ego of someone proud of Welsh sport to see them slip off the schedule next year.

Hopefully Welsh golf chiefs will shoot for the stars going forward. Let the Celtic Manor bid for the World Matchplay or the Solheim Cup or even a World Golf Championship event, but why not revamp the Wales Open at Royal Porthcawl or St Pierre?

Because all the feedback this week was that those in the field at the Wales Open love performing in Wales.

It's a shame they could not relay those thoughts to the executives at UEFA.