Amazing! Makes me so proud to see people on the other side of the atlantic sitting up and taking notice. I didn't even mind them calling it a "soccer club"!
Rob Hughes wrote it,he sounds very familiar. BBC Wales reporter,possibly.Anyone cast any light on that. Great article,and what a place to find it. I particularly liked the line,"the ball on the ground,moved by men's imagination as well as their feet". Dylan Thomasesque.
Maybe they just picked the guy with the most Welsh sounding name? http://thebrowser.com/interviews/rob-hughes-on-football?page=full
It probably is quite a popular Welsh name. Visitted the browser site and I was interested to see the list of books that Mr. Hughes had highlighted. The fifth one being entitled "Prophet or Traitor". I wonder if that was written about,ssh,you know who?
Thanks for finding this - it is a great article and there we are first among giants with the Barca hammering as second fiddle. Didn't read the sports pages yesterday; I'm going to have to dig it out of the garbage (rubbish).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/sep/19/premier-league-chalkboard-analysis?CMP=twt_gu "If Swansea are Barcelona, Leon Britton is Xavi" Brilliant.
What a great read, well done to the man that spotted that one, the line I particularly liked was, "Courage comes in many forms, be it in the Welsh valleys or the Catalan plain" how symbolic is that of our tacticians on the 'Field of Dreams' aye lads!.................... please log in to view this image PS: And Vetch, get to bed earlier!!................ please log in to view this image
Good bit of prose eh? Nice to see that quality journalism is still appreciated by people too. Imagine the red-tops carrying a story like this! Not going to happen unfortunately...
"Vetch,get to bed earlier". I've tried,Dragon,oh how I've tried,but I just lie awake worrying about whether Cardiff City have enough money in the Bank to to pay their tax bills. We don't want to have to go through all that again,do we???!!!
We can't complain about lack of press coverage,at the moment,as is evidenced above. Also,last Saturday's Radio 5 came from The Liberty,with interviews from Brendan and Hugh. Happy days.
Rob Hughes has written, broadcast and edited about sports for four decades. His columns in The International Herald Tribune since 1977 illuminate the global phenomenon of soccer for readers in 180 countries. He has reported on the World Cup since 1974 and the Olympic Games since 1988. In his native England, he was chief sports writer for The Times of London for a decade and a writer for The Sunday Times and Sunday Times Magazine for more than 25 years. In television, Mr. Hughes reported and produced live sports, documentaries and light entertainment. Brazil's government awarded Mr. Hughes its highest civilian decoration - the Order of the Southern Cross - in 1990, saying: "Hughes belongs to those few writers who reach beyond the mere descriptive to find in sports a deeper expression of individual and national aspirations." The author of two books, he was a guest speaker at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town in 2007 and at the Football and International Peace Congress in Seoul 2006. Unforgiving when passions about sports are abused, Mr. Hughes believes the game of soccer crosses boundaries of culture or religion and has become a commercial and political tool.
I know what a septic tank is,musty,I just didn't understand the use of the word in your post. I thought they were called dunnies. Or is that the outside loo?
