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Flipping heck!
The best way to process the full extraordinariness of Cymru’s 7-1 win over North Macedonia this week is to examine a few statistics. ■In 729 international encounters with 80 different …
Prize crossword
First correct solution received by email wins a pristine copy of A-Z of Cardiff that I recently found in the attic (published 2016, retail price £14.99, now out of print). …
Some brief profiles
TOM DAVIES (1941-2024)Journalist and author Tom Davies, who died last year after a slow decline with dementia, personified unorthodoxy and independent thinking as he followed his own path throughout an …
Cardiff’s lost buildings 11
Cardiff Arms ParkWestgate StreetThe story of Cardiff’s ‘fields of praise’ is as good an example as any of the parlous state of the capital of Wales in the 21st century:1766: …
Wales shows the way
What a fantastic, amazing, sensational result in the Caerffili by-election! Labour, having held both the Westminster seat since it was created in 1918 and the Senedd seat since the start …
Senedd by-election
Tomorrow there will be a by-election in Caerffili following the death in August of Hefin David (1977-2025), Labour MS for the constituency since 2016. No words of mine will make …
Player ratings
STARTING XI Karl Darlow 3AWOLBen Davies 2One hundred and outBen Cabango 2A whimper not a bangJoe Rodon 4Next appearance: the tattoo parlourNeco Williams 4Much ado about nothingEthan Ampadu 3DisarmedJordan James …
Has the Bellamy bubble burst?
The 3-0 loss at Wembley this week took the head-to-head record versus yr hen elyn to P105, W14, D21, L70, Goals F91, A256, an atrocious record that is almost as …
Enwau Gwrywaidd/Masculine Nouns
Nouns name things, whether they be concrete or abstract: from people, places, objects, qualities and ideas through to concepts and emotions. Welsh nouns are grouped into two categories according to …
Fatal plane crashes in Wales
Before WW1 no flying had ever occurred over Wales except for the non-mechanical floating of hot-air balloons; a spectacle that instigated Wales’ first fatal air accident in 1896 – see …