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...
Tagged: Brian Flynn
Sponsored Links
Podcast / Podlediad #65: Live Q+A with Leon Barton, author of Little Wonder
Our first ever podcast with a live audience at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff with St. David’s Press. Russell and Rich interview Leon Barton about his biography of Brian Flynn, Little Wonder. Little Wonder is...
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...
Excerpt from / Detholiad o ‘Little Wonder’
12 October 2017. Brian Flynn’s 62nd birthday. Forty years ago today he celebrated his 22nd birthday by winning his 21st Wales cap in the infamous 2-0 defeat to Scotland at Anfield. To mark the...
Trauma in Tbilisi: Wales’ bid to right the pain of Georgia*
Ahead of the World Cup qualifier game in Tbilisi Leon Barton takes a look at Wales’s two previous to the city. You may want to look away now…. First, the good news: Georgia have...
Podcast / Podlediad #57: Brian Flynn – ‘Little Wonder’
Russell chats with Leon about his experience writing a biography of Brian Flynn for St David’s Press. They discuss Flynn’s playing career, his time as manager of Wrexham and Swansea and his role in the Swans’...
The Balkan Complex
Wales will round off their 2016-17 season by heading to Belgrade in Serbia on 11 June. In 26 games against Yugoslavia and its composite independent nations dating back to 1953 Wales have triumphed only...
Guest blog / Blognod gwadd: Wales Shirts of the Forgotten Campaign
With Wales regularly replacing their kits and having worn four different kits in the recent qualifying campaign, in this guest blog collector of matchworn Wales shirts Simon Shakeshaft looks back at the so-called ‘forgotten campaign’ of the...
