I present Friday 1-2pm with
@nomadicrevery
on BBC Radio 5 Live. Rep by Sara Ray at M&C Saatchi. Luxury player, doesn’t track back. Tocyn oes ar y trên grefi.
I can’t think of anything that TV gets more wrong than adverts involving friends watching the football at home, usually to sell crisps, etc. Grown men watching TV with scarves on, etc
My one year old son has just started walking, and loves to hold my hand as he toddles along. Odd to think that one day he will be 16 and almost certainly think I am a complete wanker
Taking my four year old daughter to her first football match. Not saying she's not up for it, but she's taking two colouring books and is dressed as Cinderella.
All I’m asking for is an away trip, cans on the train, a late winner (3-2, having been second best all afternoon), the players to punch the air in front of us at full time & for a man whose name I don’t know but have been on nodding terms with since 2001 to compliment my new coat
Just talked to a 16yr old neighbour about her GCSE revision - the distractions posed by phones, the internet, etc. Difficult to explain to her that when I was revising for my GCSEs in the 90s, I would often take an hour off to just stare at a wall
I’ve watched this countless times over the years and it somehow gets worse with every viewing. When it was filmed Jamie was 12 and Michael was World Player of the Year and had won five trophies with Liverpool in six months
Remembering when Michael Owen gleefully smacked 22 consecutive volleys past a 12 year old from point blank range.
“I just love volleying – poor old Jamie has no chance."
Took my four year old son to his first football coaching session today. He’s wearing full Wales kit and I’m wearing a Wales tracksuit, just to let any potential England scouts know where we stand as a family on the thorny issue of him being dual qualified
Fascinated by the men whose replies to tweets about women feeling frightened basically boil down to: ‘Frightened? What’s all the fuss about? If you look at the statistics, men are actually more likely to be murdered, and when we’re murdered we just put up with it’
Trying to write a piece about Bale for the Guardian. Impossible to distill into 1000 words. I’ve got to his second goal for Wales in 2007 and am on 822 words already. He was a titan. Colossal. I actually think he changed the country. We were lucky to have him.
Lauren Price would have been put in care at 3 days old had her grandparents not taken her in. She grew up with a dream. The young Welsh boxer drove a taxi by night & trained in the day. She’s just won gold in Tokyo. Another incredible backstory of a warrior woman.
If GMB want to go in a very different direction & employ John & I, on tomorrow’s show they could expect us to lead with Swansea’s draw at Blackburn, before ‘have you got a printer in the house?’ (8-8.30am), & then ‘have you ever seen a big celebrity in a small car? (8.30-9am)
I suppose I shouldn’t give this the oxygen of publicity, but it never fails to amaze me how many of these articles get written. The UK must be one of the few places in the world where bilingualism is somehow seen as a negative. And it’s dismissing hundreds of thousands of people.
The hour prior to the school run turns me into such a dickhead. ‘BRUSH YOUR TEETH COME ON, THINK! IT’S 8.39! WORK WITH ME, WORK WITH ME, WHERE ARE YOUR SHOES? IT’S 8.40 - SWITCH ON!’
Very sad to hear about Sean Lock. I only got to work with him a few times, which was always exciting because I’d been such a huge fan when I was growing up. He was a jaw droppingly talented comedian. One of the very best
Isy just said to me ‘you go “mmmm” after each mouthful of Weetabix you eat, every single morning’ with a vigour that suggests she’s building up the courage to leave me
Wales away in Montenegro, this was the scene a couple of hours ago. The rain has now reduced from ‘Biblical’ to ‘classic Welsh winter.’ Who knows if the game will go ahead. That said, a very drunk local just guessed my age as 26 so I’ve never felt more alive
He’s retired. He gave Welsh fans moments we never thought we’d have. He’s the best we’ve produced in 147 years of Welsh international football. I never got to see John Charles in action, but I got to see plenty of Bale. Diolch, Gareth
We’re recording this next week, it’s a dream come true. The dream of course being to load it with so many references to Swansea City and Wales that it borders on (without becoming) unwatchable
Having a strong coffee before a drink has absolutely revolutionised middle aged boozing for me. I’m about to give the kids a bath with such a weird energy. ‘Splash all you like! I don’t give a fuck!’
A goalie whose wife has just gone into labour. Driving rain. Loads of those tin foil FA Cups. A goalscorer who was stacking shelves in Tesco less than two years ago. Now they're playing the champions in the next round. Have Newport County just achieved the perfect cup tie?
James Corden, Camila Cabello, Billy Porter and Idina Menzel stopped traffic in LA for a flash mob with a cover of Jennifer Lopez’s “Let’s Get Loud” to promote
#CinderellaMovie
Netherlands 3 Wales 2. Bale equalised in the 92nd minute, Depay scored the winner in the 93rd minute. I have never taken my top off and put it back on again as quickly in my life
My 7yr old daughter has a friend round. I offered him beer or wine instead of water or squash, I did a great pratfall outside the house and have just pretended to have an allergic fit after eating a fishfinger. Do you know what? I’m having a great gig
Bristol City 0 Swansea City 1. Big rivalry, full blooded. 2,300 in the away end. And to the Bristol City fan who did wanker signs at us for the full 90 minutes, I don’t know if you’re employed by the club but I have to applaud your commitment to the bit. Superb
Here it is, a thousand words that could easily have been ten times that. Gareth Bale took us to places we’d never been before, and was that rare thing: a global superstar who was totally synonymous with Wales.
Saw John’s show at the Apollo tonight. It’s extraordinary. The last few shows he’s written (especially The Darkness of Robins onwards) have changed the game really. He’s world class.
Had the pleasure of interviewing
@therealMickeyT
today, and we had a kickabout afterwards. He said ‘you’ve got a good first touch, but I can always tell how good a player is from their attempt at the crossbar challenge.’ Well, well, well...
My daughter’s a bit worried about going in to year 4. As I tried to reassure her by talking about the worries I remembered from going into year 4, she interrupted by saying ‘YES BUT YOU’RE FROM THE EIGHTIES. AND IN THE EIGHTIES THINGS JUST SEEMED TO WORK THEMSELVES OUT’
Footballer
@MarcusRashford
has visited a new foodbank depot named after his mother, Melanie Maynard.
He gave
#BBCBreakfast
his reaction to the recent government rejection of his campaign for free school meals to be extended over the holidays in England.
Running for a train. I’m wearing trainers, & I don’t have a bag - the conditions are perfect. I regret to inform you that at 41 the famous turn of pace that got me out of so many sticky situations, has gone. I’ve had a great career & hope to leave the house earlier from now on
Netherlands 2 Wales 2 after 92mins (Bale).
Netherlands 3 Wales 2 after 93mins (Depay).
I think I’ll pop the old top back on actually. All the best, take care, God bless, tara
I just told my 6yr old daughter that when I was her age we did PE lessons in the pants and vest we happened to be wearing that day, and she was quite simply stunned
It was a genuine dream come true to make a documentary about the history of Welsh football. And a rare alignment between BBC Wales commissioning policy and my
#brand
In a brand new series, comedian, presenter and lifelong football fan
@elisjames
looks at the highs and lows of Welsh footballing history.
Elis James: Football Nation
Monday, 10.45pm - BBC One Wales
Game one of Project 2022 (play as much football as possible) over - making up the numbers for the dads at
@robbeckettcomic
’s daughter’s school. Playing again on Tuesday, I should have sat deep, dictated the tempo, but I played up front BECAUSE I AM AN ADDICT AND GOALS ARE MY FIX
Just told my 7 week old son that if he falls asleep within the next 10 seconds I’ll give him £4,000 in cash, and he’s not interested. Beginning to worry he’s thick.
25 years after seeing
@Tim_Burgess
wear it in The Charlatans video for How High, I finally have the jacket I looked for so much as a teenager.
@hikerdelic
have done a great job
If I were an Italian footballer, I can’t work out if I’d prefer to be a no-nonsense hard man defender or a flamboyant number 10 who weeps when he scores
Looking for squirrels in the park. A nice couple came up to me and said ‘if your daughter wants to see rats instead, there’s a few under that bush over there’ and I thought ‘what a lovely London story’
Honoured and humbled to made an Honorary Fellow of my alma mater Cardiff University, and thrilled to speak at today’s graduation ceremony. Well done the class of 2023! Congratulations! You did it! It was also great being there with my mum. Diolch enfawr i fy rhieni