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football fans
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. […]
For most football fans, the last few months have been tough. In summers without a major international tournament like the UEFA European Championships or the FIFA World Cup – which is every other summer – things seem to drag. You drift restlessly through Saturdays and life can feel rudderless. There are brief distractions like the FIFA […]
England elimination – 2010
22nd June 2014
by Mark Hawkins
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 […]