The first black footballer to play for Wales
In this blog – a version of which first appeared on Parallel Cymru – Matthew Jones remembers the first ever black footballer to wear the red shirt of Wales. Like so many, I had a great...
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Cheltenham Town Wales XI
It can be a strange life being a Welsh supporter of a lower division English club, explains Tim Nicholls. It is especially weird playing Newport County and Wrexham, having people stood next to me...
John Toshack – saviour or sinnerman?
With John Toshack’s autobiography Toshack’s Way hitting the shelves of bookshops in time for Christmas, Leon Barton reviews the book and assesses the kid from Canton’s unique footballing career as player and manager. John Toshack...
25 years on
Drawing on your recollections and those of some of the key people involved on the day Leon Barton remembers how that fateful day 25 years ago against Romania panned out: from the build-up through...
Denmark – the final exam for Giggs’s first year report
In this guest blog Buzz Boncath looks at what Ryan Giggs needs to do to ensure top marks in his final end of year test against Denmark and Albania. Summer’s a memory and if, like...
Show Racisim The Red Card – Month of Action
In this blog Jason Webber, Campaign Co-ordinator, outlines what Show Racism the Red Card is doing throughout October in its ‘Month of Action’. You can listen to Jason in conversation with Russell Todd in this podcast....
An open letter to The Red Wall / Llythyr agored i’r Wal Goch
“All in all we’re just another brick in the wall” For Pink Floyd the bricks in the wall were societal and social inequalities, abuses of power and psychological harm experienced by people. In the...
