Not enough letters Taffvale. His actual name was Karl the Unready! You must be relieved that he didn't play for your home town club!
So a Neath lad - looks like you're in good company Taff? I grew up in a similar sized town in Hampshire. please log in to view this image Notable people See Categoryeople from Neath Clayton Blackmore (1964– ), the former Manchester United and Wales international; Michael Bogdanov (1938– ), international theatre director; Mark Bowen (1963–, b. Briton Ferry), deputy manager of Stoke FC, and formerly a player with Spurs and Norwich City; Richard Burton (1925–1984, b. Pontrhydyfen), actor; Hugh Dalton (1887–1962, b. Gnoll), Labour politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1945–1947. Ben Davies (1993– ), Tottenham Hotspur, and Wales footballer David Davies, (1877–1944), Welsh international rugby union forward; Ivor Emmanuel (1927–2007), singer and actor; Hugh Evan-Thomas, vice-admiral; Craig Evans (born 1971), cricketer; Rebecca Evans (1963–, b. Pontrhydyfen), soprano; Sir Samuel Thomas Evans (1859–1918, b. Skewen), politician and judge; George Grant Francis (1814–1822, b. Swansea) historian who wrote Original Charters and Materials for a History of Neath (1845); Julie Gardner (1969– ), television producer previously responsible for Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood, now executive producer of scripted projects at BBC Worldwide; Richard Grant (born 1984), cricketer; Cecil Griffiths (1900–1945), winner of an Olympic gold medal in the 4x400m relay at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; Carl Harris (1956– ), the former Leeds United and Wales international; T. G. H. James (1923–2009), Egyptologist and former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum; Sir William Jenkins (1871–1944), former Neath MP; Katherine Jenkins (1980– ), popular classical mezzo-soprano; Della Jones (1946, b. Tonna), mezzo-soprano; Geraint F. Lewis (1969– ), leading astrophysicist; Andy Legg (1966– ), former professional footballer and Wales international; Tony Lewis (1936–, b. Swansea), first Welshman to Captain an England cricket tour abroad, (India, Pakistan, 1972–73). Writer and broadcaster; Thomas Leyson (1549-c. 1608), Latin and Welsh poet and physician; Andrew Matthews-Owen, pianist; Ray Milland (1907–1986), Oscar winning Hollywood actor; David Watts Morgan (1867–1933), miners' leader and politician; Sir William Nott (1782–1845), British General in India; Harry Parr-Davies, composer; Jessie Penn-Lewis (1861–1927), missioner and revivalist; Sir Arthur Pugh (1870–1955, b. Ross, Hertfordshire), trade unionist, moved to his father's birthplace, Neath, 1894;[16] Henry Habberley Price (1899–1984), philosopher; Walter Enoch Rees (1863–1949), rugby administrator; Paul Rhys (1963– ), actor; Peter Shreeves (1940– ), former Spurs and Sheffield Wednesday manager; Samuel Charles Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich (1918–1988), barrister and politician, Attorney-General, 1974–1979; Jonathan Spratt Welsh rugby player William Squire (1917–1989), actor; David Thaxton (1982– ), West End performer Brian Thomas (1940–2012), Wales rugby union lock who also played and managed Neath RFC; Bonnie Tyler (1951–, b. Skewen), pop star; Andrew Vicari (1938– ), artist; Ron Waldron (1933– ) Welsh rugby coach; Alfred Russel Wallace (1823, b. Monmouthshire), evolutionary theorist, lived in Neath during 1841/2 and attended lectures given by the area's scientific societies;[17] Cyril Walters (1905–1992), Glamorgan cricketer and Captain of the England cricket team; Anna Letitia Waring (1823–1910), poet and hymn writer; Elijah Waring, writer; and Jane Williams [called Llinos] (1795–1873), singer and compiler of traditional Welsh music. Thomas Haffield (198 Great Britain Olympic swimmer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neath
