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cheers Buzz!

Diolch! That game in 2014 was both brutal and brilliant and I got shivers several times when writing about it. LOVED the way Chester and Ledley stood up to Pjanic because I'd never really seen anything like it before from Wales. That game was the turning point for me (ppl say Andorra but I disagree)

Described as ‘the greatest loss of my life’ by Gareth Bale, Wales’s 2–0 defeat to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Zenica in 2015 was part of a trilogy of games that mapped how Chris Coleman turned things around in his first three years as manager ✍️Leon Barton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1dIa

I grew up about 22 miles from Corwen - my parents had friends living there so we visited quite often when I was a kid. It was a pleasure writing about the area.

But, of course, it was an even greater pleasure to write about such an exceptional player for Wales and a seemingly humble bloke too.

cheers Iwan

Dave Smallman too

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Ep.195 - Seventh Heaven

@leonbarton.bsky.social and @llannerch.bsky.social look back at an international window that started stodgy and ended with a sparkle. They share their thoughts on Bosnia & Herzegovina in next year's play-offs

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He's their captain, and he turns 40 around a week before they play us.

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If you'd said last week 'we'll win one of these games 1-0 and the other 7-1', I'm pretty confident ZERO Wales fans would have predicted it being that way round...

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Harry and Broady at Wrexham as (very young) kids too. And Brooks' Mam from Llangollen so we'll claim his goal for NE Wales as well!

Just wish I'd had the programme with me when I met Brian Lloyd a couple of years back

also signed by Joey

please take them to the play offs

Loving that our goalscoring stats are looking so much better now: Wilson 17, Moore 15, DJ 9, Johnson 7, Brooks 6, Broadhead and Neco 4. I think JJ will start chipping in now too

We worried post-Bale (and Ramsey..) about where the goals would come from but they're being shared around nicely

Brian Flynn in Port Talbot, 2018:

"The reintroduction of reserve team football up there will help. I predict Scotland will come good again in the next decade.."

I wasn't convinced about that but I've learned it's best not to question Flynnie on football. He's right 99.9% of the time

cheers Buzz, enjoy the game!

As Wales prepare to take on England for the 105th time on Thursday, hoping to record what would be just a fifteenth victory, ✍️Leon Burton looks back over the 146-year history of matches between the two sides wp.me/p8Mk4U-16PG

Oh, Joey Joey 💔

For me, the guitar sound, Gruff's vocals in the verse and Cian's keys are all more Krautrock than Britpop!

More time on the bench, sadly. Although there's talk Okonkwo will get a Nigeria call up for AFCON which could be an opening for Ward.

really?! So you disagree with my take that something 4 the weekend was clearly their most 'Britpop' moment and Hermann loves Pauline was the moment the handbrake came off? Can't imagine ANY of the big Britpop bands like Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Suede coming up w a song like HLP... musically or lyrically

Hermann loves Pauline was my no. 3 but only 3 others voted for it. Was disappointed it wasn't higher either...as you may guess if you read my 'bit' about that one!

Thanks for posting @simonprice.bsky.social I'd have loved to see some of the folkier, Pentangle-influenced songs in there like the piccolo snare and Sarn Helen cos that folky side of them is maybe the only side not really repped in the top 30.

Just missed out. Think it was number 31

thanks Iwan

SFA@30: The thirty greatest Super Furry Animals songs as voted for by fans Leon Barton It’s now thirty years since Wales’ greatest, most unique band released the ‘Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllantysiliogogogochynygofod (In Space)’ EP on the Ankst label. SFA quickly ...

It's now thirty years since Wales' most brilliantly unique band Super Furry Animals released the 'Llanfairpg (In Space)' EP on the Ankst label.

To celebrate the Furries' landmark, Leon Barton enlisted the help of a selection of prominent Furry fans to compile the 30 greatest SFA tracks

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If we finish same points as Belgium, is it Head to Head, goal difference or goal difference minus the games vs the team that finishes bottom of a 5 team group?????

...cos nobody seems to have a clue