• Although the FAW had been founded way back in 1875 at this point in time Wales had never played anyone other than England, Scotland or Ireland (Northern Ireland from 1924). (dicmortimer.com)
  • New Zealand were added to the list of high profile sides including MCC, Lancashire and the South Africans that had played in north Wales since Rowland had been appointed President of the North Wales Cricket Association in 1924. (glamorgancricketarchives.com)
  • Since 1980, Hilary Tann has lived south of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, where she chairs the Department of Performing Arts at Union College, Schenectady. (uiowa.edu)
  • The following year manager Mike Smith departed following a loss in Turkey which meant Wales were unable to qualify for the 1980 European Championships. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • Doc Kimmel , 95, American physician and politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1980-1982, 1984-1986). (deathoccurred.com)
  • Simon Price, born in South Wales in 1967 and now based in Brighton (after a long spell in London and a much shorter one in Paris), is an award-winning British music critic. (rocksbackpages.com)
  • Vincent Peter "Vinnie" Jones (born 5 January 1965) is a British actor and former professional footballer who played as a midfielder from 1984 to 1999 notably for Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Chelsea and Wales. (alchetron.com)
  • It's not so much seeing Wrexham play in the upper echelons of the football pyramid that gets my juices flowing though, it's more about what it could potentially mean for the infrastructure of the club. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • I want Wrexham players in the Wales squad again (the last was Neil Taylor way back in 2010…I think…don't @ me). (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • I want to see Wrexham become a real hub for the womens game in Wales. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • But most of all, I want to see Wales play competitive games in Wrexham again, just as they did I was growing up. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • There's surely never been a more 'Wrexham' Wales game. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • even the south Wales contingent- the likes of Toshack, Brian Flynn, Terry Yorath, Leighton James - loved the atmosphere for internationals in Wrexham, and enjoyed the drinking…, sorry, 'team bonding' sessions at The Sun in Trevor. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • 12,425) Welsh History Review Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. (library.wales)
  • On 4 February 1888, Kedzlie was selected to represent Wales in the opening game of the Home Nations Championship, played at Rodney Parade against Scotland. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wales Scotland 1888 Ireland 1888 Jenkins, John M. (wikipedia.org)
  • Oswestry-born Gough, in his Oswestry Town playing days a goalie who won one Welsh cap against Scotland in 1883, was actually a member of the FA's ruling council at the same time as being FAW president. (dicmortimer.com)
  • Although, in theory it applies only to England, because of the UK's internal market, it will impact in Scotland, Wales and in some ways in Northern Ireland. (ivydenegardens.co.uk)
  • The Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international men's rugby union competition between the teams of England , France , Ireland , Italy , Scotland and Wales . (wikipedia.org)
  • The Six Nations is the successor to the Home Nations Championship (1883-1909 and 1932-39), played between teams from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, which was the first international rugby union tournament. (wikipedia.org)
  • The tournament was first played in 1883 as the Home Nations Championship among the then four Home Nations of the United Kingdom - England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. (wikipedia.org)
  • She holds degrees in composition from the University of Wales at Cardiff and from Princeton University. (uiowa.edu)
  • Barnwell is also a Speech Pathologist with the Bachelors, Masters (SUNY, Geneseo 1963-68) and Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh 1975) degrees and was a professor in the College of Dentistry for over a decade. (singers.com)
  • Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey , DBE (born 8 January 1937) [1] is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). (cloudflare-ipfs.com)
  • The four 'British' associations would not become FIFA members again until 1946, ruling Wales out of the 1934 and 1938 World Cups as well as this inaugural tournament in Uruguay, won by the hosts. (dicmortimer.com)
  • 30 October 1946) is a Welsh [1] musician, best known for playing for the Australian rock band AC/DC . (wikipedia.org)
  • Shirley Veronica Bassey was the sixth and youngest child of Henry Bassey and Eliza Jane Start, [8] and was born on Bute Street in Tiger Bay ( Butetown ), Cardiff, Wales. (cloudflare-ipfs.com)
  • A Welshman born in Pontypridd, initially played for Ton Boys Club before making two senior league appearances for Swansea Town during the 1934-35 season. (silkmenarchives.org.uk)
  • Beulah began as a Welsh Independent (Congregational) church in what was then a rural and predominantly Welsh-speaking area in the parish of Whitchurch. (beulahurc.org.uk)
  • A match against Wales at Llandudno had been included in the initial fixture list with Rowland agreeing to provide £500 to meet the tourists' expenses. (glamorgancricketarchives.com)
  • In many respects, though, the week had been a success as part of the wider plans and ambitions to promote cricket in Wales and establish Llandudno as a major cricket venue. (glamorgancricketarchives.com)
  • Hmm…I'm good at unremitting misery…so here then, as a companion piece to my history of Wales in the European Championships (see http://tinyurl.com/poogw48 ) is the harrowing saga of Wales and the World Cup. (dicmortimer.com)
  • Quentin Dick Kedzlie (22 March 1861 - 3 May 1920) was a Scottish-born international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cardiff and international rugby for Wales. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bob was a Scottish-born full-back who joined Newcastle West End from Scottish club Renton in 1890. (newcastleunited-mad.co.uk)
  • A number of works reflect this interest, most especially the large orchestral piece, From Afar, premiered by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (14 October, 1996) which received its European premiere by the B.B.C. National Orchestra of Wales, 12 January 2000. (uiowa.edu)
  • In December 1994, Jones was named in the Wales squad qualifying via his Ruthin-born maternal grandfather. (alchetron.com)
  • Though the counter-terrorist teams are based at RHQ in Credenhill, a specialist eight-man team is based within the outer London region (4, south London border & 4, north London border/Hertfordshire). (semperfidelis.ro)
  • Born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, Jones represented and captained the Welsh national football team, having qualified via a Welsh grandparent. (alchetron.com)
  • This Rugby Spellbound People: Rugby Football in Nineteenth-Century Cardiff and South Wales. (wikipedia.org)
  • Treating Wales' national football team as important would not just draw attention to Wales' lack of national statehood, it would also tacitly endorse the concept of Wales as a nation - absolute anathema to the British nationalists in charge. (dicmortimer.com)
  • Essentially, the international team was an incidental afterthought, set up to give England a game now and then, while long-serving secretary Robbins was otherwise engaged trying over and over again, and failing over and over again, to organise Welsh domestic football. (dicmortimer.com)
  • Northampton Town Football Club badge - Link to home, Travelling to Sixfields by public transport. (castromar.com)
  • Northampton Town Football Club is looking to recruit some casual Academy Coaches to work within the schoolboy phase. (castromar.com)
  • Visit PayScale to research SOUTHAMPTON Football Club salaries bonuses reviews. (castromar.com)
  • Having played for football clubs like Valencia and Manchester United, he currently plays for Real Sociedad. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • Over a thousand fans had made the trip from Austria and there was a sizeable media contingent also present for a match billed as one of the biggest in Welsh football history. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • His six years in charge rejuvenated Welsh international football though, following a horrible post-1958 World Cup slump which lasted for around sixteen years. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • Jones' career in football began in 1984, when he was 19 years old, at Alliance Premier League side Wealdstone. (alchetron.com)
  • That Great Little Team On The Other Side Of The Bridge:The 140 Year History of Canton RFC (Cardiff) Season 1876-77 to 2016-17. (wikipedia.org)
  • On leaving Macclesfield he signed for St Neots Town and went on to play for several clubs - Bishop's Stortford (2013-14), Kingstonian (Mar 2014) on dual registration forms with Bishop's Stortford, Hendon (2014-17), loan Metropolitan Police (December 2015), Edgware Town (March 2017), Beaconsfield (summer of 2017) Potters Bar Town (October 2018), Southall and Northwood (2020) leaving them at the end of the 2021-22 season. (silkmenarchives.org.uk)
  • He played one season with Swedish club IFK Holmsund in 1986, helping to lead the team to a Division 3 victory. (alchetron.com)
  • But the National Library of Wales now holds no fewer than seven important Lloyd George archives, six of them acquired during the last twenty years. (liberalhistory.org.uk)
  • Not that it really mattered, since Wales never had more than three games per year, and some years only two. (dicmortimer.com)
  • With Eaton Hodgkinson and William Fairbairn he developed wrought-iron tubular bridges, such the Britannia Bridge in Wales, a design he would later use for the Victoria Bridge in Montreal, for many years the longest bridge in the world. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Crowd trouble in the second leg of the European Championship versus Yugoslavia the previous year meant a ban from playing within 200 miles of Ninian Park, making The Racecourse the only viable Welsh venue to host the qualifiers for the 1978 World Cup. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • FIFA, which had been founded in Paris in 1904 by the FAs of Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, had 41 members by the time of the first World Cup in 1930 - but Wales was not among them. (dicmortimer.com)
  • The last of his nine caps came on 29 March 1997 in a 2-1 defeat to Belgium in a World Cup qualifier, also at Cardiff Arms Park. (alchetron.com)
  • The selectors kept faith in the forwards, fielding an unchanged pack for the first time in Welsh rugby history. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cardiff Rugby Club, History and Statistics 1876-1975. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union. (wikipedia.org)
  • 3,556) Llafur the journal of the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History. (library.wales)
  • Given how ridiculously easy winning games has suddenly become for Wales, even I am confident of three more points in Vienna - despite the fact that nothing in the entire history of Wales in the World Cup would justify the merest smidgen of confidence. (dicmortimer.com)
  • Possible candidates include John Williams, a Welsh non-conformist preacher in the 17th century who figured in a history of the Methodist revival in Wales published in 1820. (drewfamily.uk)
  • Gareth Bale ( b 1989) has overtaken Ivor Allchurch (1929-1997) and Trevor Ford (1923-2003) to become Wales' second highest scorer and is within just four goals of Ian Rush's ( b 1961) all-time record of 28. (dicmortimer.com)
  • Shirley Bassey is one of the most popular Welsh singers of all time. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • The result meant Wales topped a qualifying group for the first, and so far, only time. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • Club record holder for most competitive appearances. (castromar.com)
  • He played in three notable games during his career with Cardiff, two at international level and one for his club. (wikipedia.org)
  • With opening games under their belts against clubs and other teams in south and north Wales the Cygnets moved on to their first major challenge. (glamorgancricketarchives.com)
  • As a member of the "Crazy Gang", he won the 1988 FA Cup Final with Wimbledon, a club for which he played well over 200 games during two spells between 1986 and 1998. (alchetron.com)
  • Born in Lanarkshire, Tom was chased by a number of clubs north and south of the border. (newcastleunited-mad.co.uk)
  • I want to see the top young players from north Wales come through with us, just as Mickey and Joey did in the seventies before they got their big moves. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • Known widely as Swannie, HD Swan had led the MCC tours of north Wales in 1926 and 1927 captaining teams that included NVH Riches and G E Rowland's son Cyril. (glamorgancricketarchives.com)
  • The side also contained a clutch of promising youngsters including Maurice Turnbull and four young cricketers from north Wales, Albert Mallalieu, Samuel Jagger and G E Rowland's sons Cyril and William Rowland. (glamorgancricketarchives.com)
  • Wales won the game through a single try, from London Welsh back Tom Pryce-Jenkins. (wikipedia.org)
  • Add the growing international stature of Joe Allen ( b 1990), manoeuvring and marauding magnificently in a Pirlo-esque midfield masterclass, the intimidating aerial power of Sam Vokes ( b 1989) and the penetrative passing of Andy King ( b 1988) and it's hard to imagine any team preventing this Wales side scoring, especially when the brilliant Aaron Ramsey ( b 1990) is back from injury. (dicmortimer.com)
  • [14] After leaving Splott Secondary Modern School at age 14, Bassey found employment at a factory while singing in public houses and clubs in the evenings and on weekends. (cloudflare-ipfs.com)
  • 1991). Who's Who of Welsh International Rugby Players. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tonight, The Prince of Wales attended a dinner in aid of the Australian bushfire relief and recovery effort, hosted by The Lord Mayor of the City of London. (igsuperstar.com)
  • The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall are deeply committed to the Australian people and in a message of support recorded earlier this year, The Prince spoke of the "incredibly special and resilient" nation. (igsuperstar.com)
  • He was an English stooge, a colonial governor implanted to keep the Welsh in order, and thanks to him English clubs had no obligation to release players for Wales duty (and wouldn't until 1993), meaning Wales often had trouble finding 11 fit players to field a team. (dicmortimer.com)
  • Kedzlie was one of five new caps brought into the Welsh pack for the game, which was captained by Newport's Tom Clapp. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wales lost the game and Kedzlie did not represent the country again. (wikipedia.org)
  • After an early try from Norman Biggs, Cardiff won the forward battle on a slow and wet pitch, winning the game by a goal. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1963 NFL Championship Game (en.wikipedia.org). (billsportsmaps.com)
  • In his later life he became the chairman of the South Wales Baseball Association. (wikipedia.org)
  • Clarence House Photos and videos from Clarence House about the life, work and activities of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall. (igsuperstar.com)
  • With Wales needing a goal manager Mike Smith was about to send on the uncapped Jack Lewis of Grimsby , when local hero Arfon Griffiths popped up to score the only goal in the 69th minute. (podcastpeldroed.cymru)
  • He made his debut under Mike Smith for Wales on 14 December 1994, three weeks before his 30th birthday, in a 3-0 home defeat to Bulgaria in the Euro 96 qualifiers. (alchetron.com)
  • In 1858-9 there was a religious revival in South Wales and Beulah felt its influence. (beulahurc.org.uk)
  • Steve currently serves on the President's Circle for Club de Madrid, the largest forum of former world leaders working to strengthen democracy, and is an Honorary President of Religion for Peace, the world's largest organisation working on inter-religious challenges. (bradford.ac.uk)
  • Today, The Prince of Wales attended the annual @PrincesTrust Awards in London, which recognise young people who have overcome issues and made a success of their lives with the help of the charity. (igsuperstar.com)
  • City of London Imperial Volunteer s 1900 77mm diameter in bronze, by G. Frampton, A soldier of the C.I.V. proclaimed by a fanfare, and welcomed by Londinia, seated on a dais, Around, oak branches entwined with fourteen labels commemorating the C.I.V's various actions in the South Africa n war . (londoncoins.co.uk)
  • Betinis has been commissioned by more than 40 music organizations including the American Suzuki Foundation, Cantus, Dale Warland Singers, and The Schubert Club. (singers.com)
  • Steven Griffith , 61, American Olympic ice hockey player ( 1984 ). (deathoccurred.com)
  • It was in order to rectify these deficiencies that the Welsh Political Archive was established at the NLW in the spring of 1983. (liberalhistory.org.uk)
  • When I first mention of the plan to run it, it looked very promising, with a location in an almost amphitheatre like area of Cardiff Bay right in front of the Millennium Centre that is just a perfect place for a car show, and it had all the potential to fill a gap in the rather sparsely populated events calendar of car events in Wales. (colinoncars.com)
  • This car has now had a couple more owners and has taken up residence in South Wales after a stint in the Manchester area. (colinoncars.com)
  • The event was posted not just on the Abarth Owners Club page, but also on Abarth South Wales and I tried to draw it to the attention of the Bristol-based Culture Owners Club, who then hastily arranged something else in their schedule, which was a bit of a shame, as there was ample space for more cars to be included in the display. (colinoncars.com)
  • Ever since the foundation of the National Library of Wales in 1909, the Department of Manuscripts and Records has acted as a national archival repository, and has acquired and preserved the papers of a number of prominent Welsh Liberal politicians. (liberalhistory.org.uk)
  • From her childhood in the coal-mining valleys of South Wales, Hilary Tann (b. 1947) developed the love of nature which has inspired all her work, whether written for performance in the United States or for her home in Wales. (uiowa.edu)
  • 4,776) Nature in Wales the quarterly journal of the West Wales Field Society. (library.wales)