Best Preston Welsh XI
Preston-born, Radyr-residing long-time friend of the podcast Jamie Grundy shares his all-time Preston North End Welsh XI. You might not know that Preston North End were the first English league champions in 1888, and also...
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We Need to Talk About North Wales
Following on from Leon Barton’s recent blog about why The Racecourse matters, Ryan ap Dafydd explains why he fears north Wales might be becoming a footnote to the resurgence of the national team and the...
Republic of Ireland – a rivalry at last?
In this joint-blog Buzz Boncath and Russell Todd look at Wales’s burgeoning rivalry with the Republic of Ireland It had to happen, didn’t it? Buzz said in his previous guest blog for Podcast Pêl-droed that...
The Racecourse Matters
Last week was the tenth annivesary of the last time Wales played a full international at The Racecourse in Wrexham. Leon Barton recalls that game and considers the ground’s importance in the annals of the...
The Nations League – hopefully more successful than the League of Nations
Despite the failure to qualify for this summer’s World Cup, there was plenty for fans of Welsh international football to look forward to at the start of 2018. Not least the Nationa League draw...
Preview of Brian Flynn – Little Wonder by Leon Barton
“I’ve just Cruyffed them” Hal Robson-Kanu Stade Pierre Mauroy lies on the eastern edge of the French city of Lille, less than three kilometres from the A22 autoroute. Follow the road east for a...
It might be the Stockholm Syndrome talking, but we need to talk about Ireland
After reaching its maiden European Championships Wales was at a crossroads: return to qualification also-rans or become regular attendees at the tournament top table. Failing to reach its first World Cup in sixty years...
Wales’s goal scoring debutants (part 2)
In part 1 of this blog Russell looked back at players who made goal scoring debuts for Wales. Players such as Mark Hughes, Robert Earnshaw, Nick Deacy of recent vintage; Tommy Bamford, Ernie Curtis,...
