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Romania 2 Cymru 1
Cymru completed a deeply disappointing season with another avoidable defeat, this time in a friendly against Romania at the Steaua Stadium in Bucharest. This was Cymru’s first encounter with Romania …
Cymru 1 Ghana 1
The friendly international in Cardiff this week was an opportunity for Craig Bellamy to give fringe players a taste of international football while Ghana’s newly-appointed manager Carlos Queiroz used it …
Anticlimax
Cymru’s 1-1 draw with Northern Ireland in Cardiff this week was an irrelevant friendly between two World Cup play-off semi-final losers that might have been a momentous event had the …
The art of losing
Cymru are out of the World Cup after a calamitous sequence of events in the play-off match against Bosnia & Herzegovina in Cardiff on Thursday night. The defeat on penalties …
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 …
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 …
The enshittification of football
“Enshittification” is a word coined in 2022 by Canadian author, journalist and blogger Cory Doctorow to describe the relentless decline of products and services over time. Originally, he was particularly …
Belgium 4 Cymru 3
Match report: Oh no! Updated head-to-head records:v Liechtenstein P4, W4, D0, L0, Goals F11, A0v Belgium P18, W5, D5, L8, Goals F27, A28 Video: YouTube/Universal
The way of the world
Qualification for the 2026 World Cup is underway. The 23rd tournament will be the first to be triple-hosted (by Canada, Mexico and the US, heaven help us) and the first …