Full backs…to the future!
Leon Barton Leon analyses the evolution of Wales full back options since the 1990s and early 2000s, when players would often be press-ganged into playing out of position to mask our deficiencies in quality....
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Ep.129 – Ben Woodburn at Hearts with @Amoruso1998
Scott McIntosh (@Amoruso1998) from the Hearts fan site Amoruso Lets It Run joins the podcast to provide a Hearts eye view of how Ben Woodburn is doing in his season long loan spell at...
#127: Welsh identity in The Red Wall & rugby | Hunaniaeth Gymreig yn Y Wal Goch a rygbi
For this episode Lewis Eldred discusses some of the findings of his Masters research into the political, social and linguistic identities of fans in The Red Wall in comparison to those among supporters of...
Wales-Austria: A brief guide to every previous clash on Welsh soil
With heartfelt apologies to Podcast Pêl-droed’s legions of Ukrainian fans, if we are to finally get to a World Cup again after a 64 (SIXTY FOUR!) year gap, it’s perhaps fitting that we’ll have...
Keep politics in football
Leon Barton explains why Wales football fans who suggest politics should be kept out of football are staggeringly lacking in self-awareness. I realise that’s a ridiculous statement, but that’s the point. With fans now...
Podcast | Podlediad #126: Reaching the World Cup play-offs | Cyrraedd gemau ail-gyfle ar gyfer Qatar
It’s a full house this week – fittingly, given what was arguably Rob Page’s finest window – and Leon, Russell, Gareth and Rich deep dive into the Belarus and Belgium qualifiers. Despite stellar performances...
Podcast | Podlediad #125: Belarus and Belgium preview with Huw Davies
Leon and Russell are joined by Huw Davies (he’s only 35 you know?) to look ahead to Wales’s final World Cup qualifiers against Belarus and Belgium. Mae Huw Davies (dim ond 35 oed ydy...
Sunderland Wales XI by @MackemRich
GK Tony NormanIt will not surprise those who know me that my favourite ever Sunderland player, Tony Norman, just pips Leigh Richmond Roose to the No.1 spot. The part he played in both in...
