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Gareth Wyn Williams

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Bilingual (Cymraeg & English). My views and not my employer's. Cymro a Mรดnwysyn balch. THFC, 37 #WalesAway caps! ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Part owner of Bangor 1876 FC.

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Just dawned on me that I literally watch no Premier League games at all that donโ€™t involve Spurs.

Only just found by accident the Arsenal v Man City score from yesterday!

Will happily watch internationals and Welsh domestic football, but for years have been gradually losing interest in the PL.

22.09.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same. There was something romantic about seeing clubs like FIorentina (when they had Batistuta) and Valencia, and discovering great players who would never ever come to England.

Now it feels like everyone in the CL has at least one player who used to play for Tottenham.

16.09.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As a competition the Champions League has left me cold for many years.

Used to love it growing up in the 90โ€™s, a glimpse of players and teams you never saw on ITV.

But since it became a parade of the same old clubs and the saturation of football all over the place, just not feeling it any more.

16.09.2025 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Had Amazon Prime booked Rooney, Berbatov and Carrick as pundits before the Europa League Final and were hedging their bets on a Man Utd win?

Berbatov downed tools to force through a move from Spurs and Michael Carrick lasted a season. Club legends?! ๐Ÿ˜‚

16.09.2025 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The international break is one of the best parts of football

12.09.2025 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So Big Ange is to sign a two-year deal with Notttingham Forest then.

I wonder what made them settle on that length of contract?โ€ฆ

09.09.2025 10:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ brought on a sub last night - Oscar Schwartau - making one of his first U21 appearances, having played 29 times for Norwich in the Championship last season after a few years at Brรธndby.

Being honest, if he was Welsh he'd have about 10 senior caps by now.

Food for thought?

09.09.2025 10:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But looking at Denmark, not a big country by population, basically all of their players are playing regularly in the Danish Superliga (essentially a top 10 European league).

Yes for big clubs like FC Copenhagen or Brรธndby, w/ others abroad in even bigger leagues and playing too.

09.09.2025 10:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But what that means is that several players aged under 21 are fast tracked, often bypassing the U21โ€™s altogether.

It leaves an U21 pool of mainly League 1 / League 2 level players or others at bigger clubs but some way off their first team squads at this time of their careers.

09.09.2025 10:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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European U21 Championship qualification: Wales suffer 6-2 Denmark hammering Wales let slip a two-goal lead to slump to a 6-2 defeat to Denmark in their opening European Under-21 Championship qualifier.

๐Ÿงต

Whatโ€™s stark is how we treat the U21โ€™s differently to some nations.

Basically if youโ€™re near a Premier League or Championship starting XI then youโ€™re essentially in the๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ senior squad no matter your age.

Given our player pool, thatโ€™s totally understandable.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

09.09.2025 10:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ 2 - 6 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ

This U21 performance is so bad that @podcastpeldroed.bsky.social has given up..โ€ฆ.

08.09.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That was bad.

08.09.2025 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bring back Jimmy Shoulderโ€ฆ

(Now thatโ€™s a bloody niche 90โ€™s Welsh football reference).

08.09.2025 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m always fascinated by the cohort of (mainly) English football fans who would happily get rid of international qualifiers and disrupt the global football order just because theyโ€™d rather watch Nottโ€™m Forest v Villa on TV rather than England v Andorra on four weekends of the entire season.

07.09.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bangor City 1876 11-0 Broughton United

Dragon Signs FAW Trophy Round 1

Att: 307

06.09.2025 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Its striking that in Welsh domestic football you hear very little from the clubs unless its a matchday, where a manager may reveal something in the post match interview.

Not a knock, it is what it is, just a very general observation in regards to the noise around the league.

28.08.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is probably a common thread across part time football, but it strikes me that one thing the Cymru Premier suffers from is a lack of *news* in between matchdays.

With regular press conferences Swansea, Wrexham, C'diff etc provide almost daily headlines and transfer news.

28.08.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As hilarious as it is for someone who grew up watching football in the 1990โ€™s, Man Utd will continue fumbling until they drop any pretence that its still 1999 and that just being Man United counts for anything whatsoever.

27.08.2025 21:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Grimsby Town now hold the right to have Blundell Park referred to as The Theatre of Breams from now on.

27.08.2025 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 252    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Bruno Fernandesโ€™ reaction there was 100% more โ€œOh shit, tomorrowโ€™s headlines will be murderโ€ than any disappointment about exiting the EFL Cup.

27.08.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cracking pitch invasion.

Football isnโ€™t dead.

27.08.2025 21:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hate them so much.

27.08.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I adore when stuttering penalties backfire.

27.08.2025 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the late 90โ€™s didnโ€™t they ban stuttering penalties or have I completely made that up in my head?

27.08.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I know its not my money but Eze is 27. Iโ€™d rather sign a little younger given the outlay.

21.08.2025 07:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Been on a train for 20 mins and already someoneโ€™s whacked out their phone to have a loud conversation over speakerphoneโ€ฆ

Why do people do that? The idea that you hold a phone against your ear has been well and truly lost on some.

20.08.2025 09:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Agreed. Of course things change but I thought that ยฃ15m for Shearer was bonkers in the mid to late 90โ€™s.

Now its just gone beyond the pale. You step onto the pitch in the PL and youโ€™re suddenly a ยฃ20m player.

Sunderland have supposedly spent ยฃ100m+ this window. I genuinely have never heard of any.

18.08.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m sorry but Iโ€™ll never get used to figures like ยฃ25m, ยฃ30m and ยฃ40m being banded around for bog standard Premier League players like its normal.

It wasnโ€™t loo long ago that nominal fees, ยฃ2m, ยฃ3m were routine even in the top flight.

Yes, inflation to a degree, but what on earth happened?!

18.08.2025 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a woman says " why do men have to behave like this " while looking at her watch ALT: a woman says " why do men have to behave like this " while looking at her watch

That Tel penalty btwโ€ฆ.

13.08.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The only consolation is that you know that the club would have had the bare faced cheek to release a โ€˜UEFA Super Cup 2025โ€™ merchandise range. #Spurs

13.08.2025 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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