C’mon City

Grahame Lloyd

Cardiff City are the only team to have taken the F.A.Cup out of England (in 1927). No club has come closer (0.024 of a goal) to winning football’s top division and they took part in the first Cup Final to be broadcast live on radio, as well as the first closed-circuit television transmission of a League game ...

The Dawes Decades: John Dawes and the Third Golden Era of Welsh Rugby

David Parry-Jones

Across the world the Welsh team of the late sixties and early seventies is fondly remembered for its mix of steely ball-winning and flamboyant try-scoring. The architect of their success was one of the game’s outstanding thinkers: centre John Dawes ...

The Gwilliam Seasons

David Parry-Jones

In the late forties and early fifties the Welsh rugby team was virtually unbeatable - indeed the 1953 side was the last to beat New Zealand. The teams then included some of the all-time greats:...

The Man in the Middle

Derek Bevan

A referee can’t make a bad game good, but he can make a good game bad. Based on this assumption, Derek Bevan became one of the world’s best - and best known - rugby union referees....

Prince Gwyn

David Parry-Jones

Gwyn Nicholls (1874-1939) is the starting - and perhaps the end - point of any debate about great rugby centres. Playing at a time when rugby developed into the game known today, Nicholls was universally recognised as the outstanding back of his time and a great thinker about the game, both technically and tactically ...