Monthly Archives: November 2011

JJB joins the Team GB Propaganda machine

I received this email earlier on a mailing list. “Bought a Wales shirt in JJB today and was going to have a number and name printed on the back. Instead of a name I went for ‘No Team GB’ – … Continue reading

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Rhys Iorwerth, the bardic football fan

One of the reasons I started writing this blog was that I wanted to open the window to Welsh language culture to an English language audience. Much of the best football coverage in Wales takes place in the Welsh language, … Continue reading

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Putting the Bale into Baleful

It makes me despair, it really does. The sight of Gareth Bale, and then heart-breakingly, our young captain, Aaron Ramsey proudly wearing the blue mock Team GB shirt in a cynically produced propaganda series has deadened my morale, and blunted … Continue reading

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