Russell Todd
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Sylfaenydd | Founder: Cymraeg @YesCymru #542
You want to see a picture of Elton John training with George Best at the LA Aztecs in 1976? Here you go
Thanks to the Society for American Soccer History (SASH), my and Albrecht Sonntag's article on Phil Woosnam "Soccer diplomat between two worlds" is available in English for the first time www.ussoccerhistory.org/phil-woosnam...
Phil Woosnam: Soccer diplomat between two worlds
How did a modest secondary school maths teacher from the Welsh countryside find himself for fourteen years at the helm of the NASL?
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Imagine if the same level of anger at the World Cup sell-off plans was applied to all the mundane everyday things that *actually* affect our material lives?
Iron Pier James@ironpier-james.bsky.social · 6d agoThe wild thing about the World Cup nonsense is that everyone understands that private companies would take out more than they put in. Now translate that to power, water and every other public service….
The wild thing about the World Cup nonsense is that everyone understands that private companies would take out more than they put in. Now translate that to power, water and every other public service….
Allister Heath in 1940: “We’ve lost the war against Germany. Time to scrap the RAF.”
Andrew Griffin is breaking the law by failing to adhere to the Welsh Language Act An act that was passed by that sovereign Mother of Parliaments that his ilk are so fond of and not by Europe
NationCymru@nation.cymru · 7d agoCampaigners have shared their concern after it was revealed that only a third of Senedd Members have made commitments to use and promote the Welsh language in their work, calling one Reform member's refusal to commit to treating Welsh no less favourably than English 'disgraceful'
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I went to the cricket in Neath last week and it was a reminder how badass a county Glamorgan is From Llanedeyrn and Caerffili in the east, to the River Loughor in the west, to Dowlais in the north, it's huge, diverse and storied
Stick it in the Commonwealth Games
Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 2w agoThis might be Britain’s most delightfully bonkers world championship. Think peas, pipes and competitors training months ahead. One village’s quirky contest that has visitors from around the world. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @aidanbaker.bsky.social
Thomson House, Havelock Street Opened in 1960 as the new home of The Western Mail & Echo a year after Canadian firm Thomson Newspapers acquired the papers Impressionist painter Ray Howard-Jones designed the mosaic Vacated in 2008 to be replaced by a UK government building for HMRC #thenandnow
The Odeon* and Cannon** cinemas, Queen Street, #Cardiff #thenandnow *A cinema first opened here in 1911. Reconstructed in 1936 it reopened as the Odeon and remained virtually untouched until a second screen opened in 1980. Closed in 2000 with with The Green Mile and American Beauty the final films
Wood Street Congregational Church Built 1858 as a Temperance Music Hall #Cardiff's Temperance Town The Congregationalists took it on in 1868 increasing its capacity to 3k - Cardiff’s biggest Nonconformist place of worship Demolished 1972, it was a car park before Southgate House was built in 1979
The sonic boom caused by Enzo Fernandez's tackle took his own left back out
Hopefully, up on a cloud somewhere Malcolm Nash has got his own back on Garfield Sobers and sent his off stump cartwheeling
Sad news about Garfield Sobers. How good was he? Put it this way, he was one of Wisden's Five for the C20th and is the only player that got anywhere near Bradman. That's how good
"If you press the red button you can not only mute Wayne Rooney, but fire him into the sun"