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The Welsh re-Development Agency
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An excuse to do nothing
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When the thin blue line becomes a garrote
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Providing a useful sex education
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A mirrored darkness
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Posts Tagged ‘football’
Our captain
The death of Gary Speed has stunned and saddened both Wales and the wider world of sport. Here, the man and his immense contribution to football are remembered
‘A man who laid his own personal and professional reputation on the line’
Hero or villain – the death of the once divisive Alun Evans at the weekend comes at a time when Welsh football is again facing an identity crisis
A victory for Swansea, not Wales
Swansea City’s elevation to football’s top flight is a cause for celebration only in that city. The notion that it is a moment for Welsh unity represents a misguided attempt at nation building
The all-time Spanish XI
We’ve seen the best the Dutch have to offer. What about their Spanish opponents?
The all-time Dutch XI
What a World Cup it has been. Whether your team is there or not, it’s been a deserving tournament, if perhaps a little unfortunate for sloggers Uruguay and plucky Germany. In the first of two pieces today, we list the reasons we love the countries behind the teams that made it to the final
It’s Argentina…
AFTER two and a half weeks of slugging it out over three group matches per group and eight knockout matches we have the final eight teams for the 2010 World Cup Finals and it’s time for me to really stick my neck out and make a projection of the final overall winner (some 14 days [...]
Out-classed. Out-thought. Out
Germany 4 England 1 Let’s face the facts. Even if Frank Lampard’s brilliant effort had counted, as it should have, it does not oscure how dominant Germany were. Fabio Capello’s team played well for about quarter of an hour but anyone can be famous for 15 minutes. Germany were so superior, they could have doubled [...]
‘Anyone But England’? It’s England’s own creation
ENGLAND are currently playing their old enemy, Germany, but whichever team Fabio Capello’s men play against there is an unknown number of their fellow British citizens will be cheering for whoever is on the opposing side. Their slogan being, “Anyone But England”. Just one question – why? No other subject seems to generate more indignation [...]
And on into the knockout stages
ALL the group matches are over and once again – despite the huge surprise of the Italians being knocked out, along with France and the hosts – the law of averages still managed to project 12 out of the last 16 correctly. And so we come to the business end of the competition, where it’s [...]
A victory once more for the old world order
WHETHER the four-year-old A.E. Housman had an opinion on the newly formed football association for association football, I don’t know, but as he said, “The house of delusions is cheap to build, but drafty to live in.” He also said, “Ale man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think,” so [...]
A confused American in Wales celebrates
ALMOST robbed twice by two different refs, Team USA went on to top the division (err, I mean group C…) and earn a berth in the Sweet 16 (no wait that’s the NCAA basketball March Madness) of the World Series of Soccer (no, no that’s baseball we arrogantly call the World Series even though 31 [...]
A World Cup of two halves?
THE VUVUZELA has proven to have a longer life span in the 2010 World Cup than former champions France. Good. Their football was appalling, their attitude dreadful and they prevented us from seeing vuvuzela blowing leprechauns on the terraces. With the French out of the tournament we can once again turn our attention to the [...]
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