Tagged: Wales national team

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Best Preston North End 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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The Curious Geography of Welsh Goalkeepers

With the news in the run up to Euro 2016 that Chris Maxwell had been called up to Wales squad as cover for Danny Ward it meant that Wales’s four first choice goalkeepers are north...

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Welsh football book reviews 2

Last summer Russell Todd and Leon Barton provided a quick run through of suggested close-season Welsh football-related reading. It included autobiographies by the likes of Robbie Savage, Terry Yorath, Joey Jones and Mickey Thomas,...

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Bordeaux bound

Russell Todd is Bordeaux bound via Angoulême from Wrexham Travelling overnight to Dover from Wrexham isn’t on paper an attractive proposition. Nodding off on the outskirts of Oswestry and waking near Maidstone though takes...

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Guest blog / Blognod gwadd: The Welsh Way

You might not have heard but Wales recently qualified for a major tournament. It has prompted talk of a ‘Golden Generation’ but, as Wales fan and “former qualified non-practising coach” Shôn Lewis argues, this overshadows...