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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 22

Just dawned on me that I literally watch no Premier League games at all that don’t involve Spurs.

Only just found by accident the Arsenal v Man City score from yesterday!

Will happily watch internationals and Welsh domestic football, but for years have been gradually losing interest in the PL.

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Fuller FM (Chris) @fullerfm.com · Sep 16

Same. There was something romantic about seeing clubs like FIorentina (when they had Batistuta) and Valencia, and discovering great players who would never ever come to England.

Now it feels like everyone in the CL has at least one player who used to play for Tottenham.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 16

As a competition the Champions League has left me cold for many years.

Used to love it growing up in the 90’s, a glimpse of players and teams you never saw on ITV.

But since it became a parade of the same old clubs and the saturation of football all over the place, just not feeling it any more.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 16

Had Amazon Prime booked Rooney, Berbatov and Carrick as pundits before the Europa League Final and were hedging their bets on a Man Utd win?

Berbatov downed tools to force through a move from Spurs and Michael Carrick lasted a season. Club legends?! 😂

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The Daftest Lap (6-1) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @thedaftestlap.bsky.social · Sep 12

The international break is one of the best parts of football

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · Sep 11

Everybody should absolutely view this as an invitation to drop your spiciest soccer takes.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · Sep 11

lol I’m gonna need bluesky’s biggest soccer post ever to balance out all the politics engagement im burying myself under.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 9

So Big Ange is to sign a two-year deal with Notttingham Forest then.

I wonder what made them settle on that length of contract?…

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 9

🇩🇰 brought on a sub last night - Oscar Schwartau - making one of his first U21 appearances, having played 29 times for Norwich in the Championship last season after a few years at Brøndby.

Being honest, if he was Welsh he'd have about 10 senior caps by now.

Food for thought?

Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 9

But looking at Denmark, not a big country by population, basically all of their players are playing regularly in the Danish Superliga (essentially a top 10 European league).

Yes for big clubs like FC Copenhagen or Brøndby, w/ others abroad in even bigger leagues and playing too.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 9

But what that means is that several players aged under 21 are fast tracked, often bypassing the U21’s altogether.

It leaves an U21 pool of mainly League 1 / League 2 level players or others at bigger clubs but some way off their first team squads at this time of their careers.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 9

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What’s stark is how we treat the U21’s differently to some nations.

Basically if you’re near a Premier League or Championship starting XI then you’re essentially in the🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 senior squad no matter your age.

Given our player pool, that’s totally understandable.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

European U21 Championship qualification: Wales suffer 6-2 Denmark hammering

Wales let slip a two-goal lead to slump to a 6-2 defeat to Denmark in their opening European Under-21 Championship qualifier.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 8

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 2 - 6 🇩🇰

This U21 performance is so bad that @podcastpeldroed.bsky.social has given up..….

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 8

That was bad.

Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 8

Bring back Jimmy Shoulder…

(Now that’s a bloody niche 90’s Welsh football reference).

goalbot 🥅🤖 @goalbot.dev · Sep 8

GOAL! 74' — O. Schwartau scores for Denmark U21. Wales U21 2–4 Denmark U21. UEFA U21 Championship - Qualification

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’m always fascinated by the cohort of (mainly) English football fans who would happily get rid of international qualifiers and disrupt the global football order just because they’d rather watch Nott’m Forest v Villa on TV rather than England v Andorra on four weekends of the entire season.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Sep 6

Bangor City 1876 11-0 Broughton United

Dragon Signs FAW Trophy Round 1

Att: 307

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Aug 28

Its striking that in Welsh domestic football you hear very little from the clubs unless its a matchday, where a manager may reveal something in the post match interview.

Not a knock, it is what it is, just a very general observation in regards to the noise around the league.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is probably a common thread across part time football, but it strikes me that one thing the Cymru Premier suffers from is a lack of *news* in between matchdays.

With regular press conferences Swansea, Wrexham, C'diff etc provide almost daily headlines and transfer news.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Aug 27

As hilarious as it is for someone who grew up watching football in the 1990’s, Man Utd will continue fumbling until they drop any pretence that its still 1999 and that just being Man United counts for anything whatsoever.

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Greg Johnson @gregianjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 27

Grimsby Town now hold the right to have Blundell Park referred to as The Theatre of Breams from now on.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Aug 27

Bruno Fernandes’ reaction there was 100% more “Oh shit, tomorrow’s headlines will be murder” than any disappointment about exiting the EFL Cup.

Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Aug 27

Cracking pitch invasion.

Football isn’t dead.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Aug 27

I hate them so much.

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Aug 27

I adore when stuttering penalties backfire.

Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Aug 27

In the late 90’s didn’t they ban stuttering penalties or have I completely made that up in my head?

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Aug 27

In the late 90’s didn’t they ban stuttering penalties or have I completely made that up in my head?

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Gareth Wyn Williams @crwydropeldroed.bsky.social · Aug 21

I know its not my money but Eze is 27. I’d rather sign a little younger given the outlay.