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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. […]
Most saturday afternoons of my young adulthood were spent playing football at low amateur levels. Usually my sides were beaten, often embarrassed and sometimes utterly humiliated by teenagers half my age. On rare occasions my team won – there was one memorable cup final (we lost heroically), and one or two promotions. But I never played […]
The Wales football team has reached a dizzying FIFA ranking of 22: the nation’s highest ever. Ahead of its crunch qualification match against Belgium in Cardiff on June 12th, many supporters are still giddy at the hope of qualifying for Euro 2016 – which would be the country’s first major tournament since 1958. How much […]