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THE 2011 Six Nations kicks off on Fri­day, with Wales tak­ing on Eng­land at home in the Mil­len­nium Sta­dium. My sis, her boy­friend, our cousin and her kid are all going (that’s two Welsh, one Scot, one Eng­lish) so it should make for an inter­est­ing trip home depend­ing on who wins. As per usual, here’s my pre­view of Wales’ games:

Feb 4 : Eng­land at the Mil­len­nium Sta­dium, Cardiff

Can we? Will we? All that’s def­in­ite about Wales play­ing Eng­land is that by the end of it I’ll have screamed myself hoarse (depend­ing, of course, that I can actu­ally listen to it on […]

February 1st, 2011 | Category: Sport, Wales | Leave a comment

Dear Wales...

In about six hours you’ll face Italy in the last day of the 2010 Six Nations.

Please win.

I know you’ve had a tough tour­na­ment. Some, like my dad, might even say you’ve been bloody ter­rible since the first game against Eng­land and should be strung up like the bunch of hope­less bug­gers you are.

But I’m not my dad. Which in many ways is good, ‘cos if I was I’d be 72 and bald. I still have faith in you. Yes, there are times when I won­der if you’re act­ively try­ing to give the ball away and occa­sions when I hon­estly believe you […]

March 20th, 2010 | Category: Sport, Wales | 3 comments

And now for the good news

IRELAND beat Eng­land to end the Saes’ Grand Slam hopes. Never did I think I’d be happy for Ire­land but this is just what I needed after los­ing to France yes­ter­day. And to top it all, Italy - Italy - beat Scot­land. Right, I’m off for […]

February 27th, 2010 | Category: Sport | One comment

In the office for Wales v France

HERE two hours early to listen (it’s noon here). Please let us win.

The BBC Radio Wales team are as biased as ever. Won­der­ful.

Sent out an email to every­one: I apo­lo­gise in advance for any screaming/shouting/swearing/crying I might do dur­ing the game. And if I try to sing, feel free to throw things at me.

The roof’s shut at the Mil­len­nium Sta­dium, the acous­tics make it sound like I’m there.

Some arse­hole just shouted dur­ing the minute’s silence and I actu­ally said “SHUTUP” out loud…

Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau is beau­ti­ful as ever. Yes, I have tears in my eyes.

Feck the BBC - the Radio […]

February 26th, 2010 | Category: Sport | 5 comments

That was close...

DEPENDING on your point of view, we either scraped by Scot­land with a last-minute try or engin­eered the finest comeback since beat­ing France in 2005 to win 31-24. Accord­ing to my dad Wales were “bloody ter­rible, ter­rible” and he was “amazed they bloody won” as they played “bloody ter­rible rugby” and were “a bunch of use­less bug­gers”. Why my dad isn’t a com­ment­ator for BBC Radio Wales is bey­ond […]

February 13th, 2010 | Category: Sport | Leave a comment
 
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