Remember Wales in Euro 2016? Bale, Ramsey, Robson-Kanu’s turn, Allen, Ledley, “Together Stronger”, all that. The 2016/17 football season is now dawning. Over the coming weeks, fans of Swansea, Cardiff, Newport, Wrexham will return to the weekly grind. Hope, elation, anger and despair: a gamut of emotions that typify being a fan. Football moves fast. […]
Last weekend Film and Comic Con was held at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff City Centre. It’s a festival for lovers of comics and films, fantasy and sci-fi. Ardent fans dress up in zany character costumes like their heroes. Actors attend inside the arena itself, meeting fans and having photographs taken. I imagine it’s a […]
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa found me approaching the end of nearly three years living in London. After the heartache of Germany 2006 I never entertained going to South Africa for the tournament four years later, despite tracking and trailing big cats there the summer before. On the tournament’s opening day I happened […]