Russell Todd
@llannerch
Sylfaenydd | Founder: Cymraeg @YesCymru #542
Pengam Sidings on Newport Road, c.1975 Home to coal merchants Jolly Coal and servicing a number of other #Cardiff coal businesses Still trading in 1983 by 1989 the area's retail character had extended eastward, with TGI Fridays a flagship arrival opening in 1989. It closed in 2024 #thenandnow
The sonic boom caused by Enzo Fernandez's tackle took his own left back out
Interesting curio from that day in Swansea is that Cymru great Trevor Ford fielded as 12th man earlier in the day
Tales of his efforts at St Helen's versus Glamorgan were like mother's milk when I was young Fittingly, there's a plaque at the ground in honour of his achievements www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
Sad news about Garfield Sobers. How good was he? Put it this way, he was one of Wisden's Five for the C20th and is the only player that got anywhere near Bradman. That's how good
Evil Dead Brum Someone buys the Necronomicon at a car boot sale in Smethwick and Deadites cause havoc in the Balti Triangle
Gianni Infantino should have stuck to grindhouse movies @slaymaker.bsky.social
Brilliant title to this morning's #wcdcglasgow2026 keynote talk by Alison Phipps
Professor of Community Development at @glasgow.ac.uk, @sineadgormally.bsky.social kicking off #wcdcglasgow2026
That brief mention of Keith Miller on TMS reminds me of one of the best sporting quotes
This heatwave reminds me of an article I wrote for Planet back in 2020 early in the pandemic that drew on #socialcapital research into the deadly 1995 Chicago heatwave growsocialcapital.org.uk/social-capit... @growsocialcapital.bsky.social
Ah yes, picking Norway over England meant he missed the opportunity to play for a country with that famously stacked trophy cabinet
Woosnam was disappointed with the result but the tour had been a worthwhile affair. “We got our house back in order” he said on their return to the US and the squad had bonded well on the trip. He'd had a chanced to run his eye over some fringe players too
Coventry City's Gerry Baker recalled officials flagging for offside "every time you crossed the halfway line" in an effort to not displease Papa Doc Duvallier's despotic regime once again The US squad were also invited to meet Papa Doc at his presidential palace
Detroit Cougars Haitians in their squad while New York Generals featured Philippe Vorbes, a white Haitian who journalist Hugh McIlvanney described as a ‘graceful player’. He later supplied the pass for the goal that shocked Italy at the 1974 WC
One problem... The team hadn't played a full international in almost 3 years The Chiefs agreed to release their championship winning coach to pull a scratch squad together to face Bermuda and Canada in qualifying. Englishman Gordon Jago assisted Woosnam
As player-manager, Woosnam had just led the Atlanta Chiefs to their maiden NASL league title, the first championship to be won by any pro team in Atlanta The 1966 World Cup final had been a significant motivating factor in setting up two rival leagues in the US that later merged to form the NASL
With Haiti playing their first World Cup game since 1974 later, here's a thread about Welshman Phil Woosnam's visit to the island in 1968 as manager of the @usmnt.ussoccer.com 🧵