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With two games left to play, we’re still in the hunt and it’s going Down To The Wire. Llion Carbis reflects on our recent draws against Slovakia and Croatia and assesses our chances of claiming 6 points in our final two qualifiers.
Penny Miles checks in with an update on her second #WalesAway trip of our Women’s Euro Qualifying Group C fixtures. This time it’s the 0-1 away victory in Belarus that keeps us in position for automatic qualification. Next up, it’s Northern Ireland away.
We’ve played Azerbaijan away 3 times since 2002, but not since 2009. The capital has changed beyond all recognition since that initial fixture. Perry Morgan looks back over those previous trips in Back To Baku.
For those of us already booked up for Slovakia away, and with days to go to the fixture, it was still a case of ‘will we or won’t we?’ Due to UEFA’s insane disciplinary regulations, it was Wales fans that were due to be punished for events that took place at Hungary v Slovakia. Ian Johnson picks his way through disciplinary regulation Article 73 in Why Punish Us?
Having properly arrived, I guess he doesn’t need introducing anymore, but just for the record, Darren Jones looks at his career to date in Getting To Know: Kieffer Moore.
Thomas Burke, Walley Barnes, Jeremy Charles and Joey Jones? They are amongst a group of players that have scored just the once in the red of Wales. Find out who else joins them on the list in the second of Mark Evans’ series, Welsh One Goal Wonders.
Scott Jones joins the calls for a posthumous cap to be awarded to Newport’s Ron Jones, the serviceman who played in goal for a Welsh IX while a prisoner of war in Auschwitz. Forced to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week while incarcerated, Ron survived by playing football on his one day off every Sunday. Find out more in Ron Jones, The Auschwitz Goalkeeper.
It had to be done. In his Get With The Programme feature, Buzz Boncath takes us back to the fateful evening of the 17th November 1993, and yet another Welsh so near but yet so far story.
This issue’s Classic International is cult hero, Trevor Hockey. Mike Pearce looks back at the colourful life of the former Wales international who was sent off for retaliation in the ‘Battle of Katowice’, a game that Wales manager Dave Bowen described as ‘a war without guns’.
In his Cwrw Am Byth column, David Rees reveals the largest brewer in Azerbaijan, and offers advice on which tipples to look for in Baku. Plus, as any self-respecting Wales fan would know, Cardiff isn’t overflowing with Hungarian beers so Dave offers up some notable alternatives instead.
Colin Lewis rounds off Issue 15 when he takes the last Wales Fan Profile challenge of the year.