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AW14, so good you can’t put it down.
Limited copies available from 🏴
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Czech fans whistle and jeer Wales players taking the knee.
Wales respond with a chant of “racist bastards”
🏴
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And so it goes, Wales have lost to the eventual winners in every major tournament we’ve been in.
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We’ve got the best atmosphere in international football. The culture we’ve created is second to none. The Canton Stand is like nothing else.
Yma O Hyd pre-match will live with me for ever.
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We all started watching Wales at some point. Some of us started with horns and face paint at the Millenium Stadium.
We can't gatekeep the Red Wall. Everyone starts somewhere and everyone should feel welcome or we'll never be able to keep selling out home games.
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More incredible work from Yusuf and everyone at
@unifycreative_
.
Will make sure I’ll pop by it tomorrow morning to see it in person.
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The need for a fully devolved media in Wales is getting clearer every day. The fact WalesOnline lived streamed Johnson's announcement only confuses things more. Wales will never be able move forward until we fix this shambles.
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Unbelievable stuff at
@Tafwyl
tonight. Wales is thriving!
@ywsgwynedd
absolutely superb. Anhygoel! 🏴
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How good is this photo? You could spend ages just zooming in on everyone’s faces. Sums up everyone’s feelings in that ground last night.
Gareth Bale reacts with the Welsh crowd during a frustrating 0-0 World Cup Qualifying draw against Estonia.
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Can we talk about the stadium as well? One of the best I’ve ever been to, amazing.
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So today is the first World Cup draw that Wales are a part of in most of our lifetimes. Here’s my thoughts:
Worst case scenario: 🇧🇪/🏴 🇺🇾 🇸🇳 🏴
Best case scenario: 🇶🇦 🇺🇸 🇹🇳 🏴
Most World Cup fun: 🇦🇷 🇲🇽 🇰🇷 🏴
We’ve just got to qualify now!
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This game might be hugely frustrating but there’s a care dog in the disabled section having a great time tonight.
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Welsh football has lost a massive personality. A brilliant player, entertaining pundit and bonafide legend.
RIP Leighton James.
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Big fan of the impromptu Waka Waka as well. I think we’ll be hearing a lot more of this before the end of the year. 🏴
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Two home games away from the World Cup, sounds quite simple really doesn’t it?
Already shitting myself.
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To celebrate St. David's Day, we're giving away:
- An annual subscription
- A pack of stickers
- £25 voucher for
@spiritof58wales
To enter all you need to do is make sure you're following us and RT & like this tweet. The winner will be announced on Friday.
🏴✊
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"Football has broadened my horizons, why else would I have gone to Bury or Carlisle or Yeovil or Chisinau? I wouldn’t change football for anything."
Read more from our chat with
@elisjames
in Issue
#2
, out June 7th.
Available to pre-order now at
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It's absolute farcical that Abolish have the platform in this debate. They only had 44k votes in the last election. Disgrace.
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I can’t wait to see pictures of people drinking pints at 8am in Wales tomorrow.
Live the dream tomorrow. Let’s hope we get the 3 points as a bonus.
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LLANTWIT MAJOR: MISFITS AND SCUMBAGS
Our next film, produced by
@terascymru
, is an inside look at
@LlantwitMajorFC
, the Welsh club making headlines around the world.
Coming soon.
Read the accompanying article in AW14 👉
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We’re really devastated to hear of Ceri Collins’ passing. Ceri was a good friend of everyone involved with Alternative Wales and always brought much needed quality to our team in the charity games we’ve played!
A true gent, a great bloke and great friend. He will be missed. ❤️
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The late night establishments of Cardiff (other than a few notable exceptions) and intent on making sure football fans have a shit night.
Just spent a week in Poland without any trouble from bouncers or police and it went off without any trouble. Why do we get it so wrong here?
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Imagine this full of Welsh fans if we make it and play France in Dortmund. A proper Red Wall.
Getting carried away now, sorry.
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"It's very entertaining, and it's yours"
On this week's podcast, we spoke to Penybont manager Rhys Griffiths about his side's Europa Conference League clash with FC Santa Coloma, the upcoming Cymru Premier season and much more.
Listen now:
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Every player stayed out signing shirts, taking pictures and chatting with fans.
Legends every single one of them. 🏴
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“Football outrage knows no real boundary. That’s part of its charm. But haven’t we passed the part of slating Joe Morrell in the social media comments section before a game?”
@megan_feringa
defends Joe Morrell, the understated star of last Thursday.
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Forget Germany 2024, it’s all about Slovakia 2025
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Fair play to Juve. They’ve literally built a team around Ramsey.
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Huge respect to the one Connah’s Quay fan who’s made it out to Yerevan for the game this afternoon.
Massive respect to our one fan in the stadium tonight, Mike! 👏🏻
He’ll be our one man band in Armenia this evening 🥁
#UCL
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Build that 50,000 seater in Llanidloes
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Right, where are these lot watching the semi-final?! 🇲🇦
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It’s hard to see right now, because it is so disappointing but we will look back on this campaign as where everything changes.
Record crowds, a huge rise in interest, standards and expectations.
We will come again, this team will come again. Yma o hyd 🏴
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Pleasing news.
#independentfootballnation
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We are absolutely over the moon to announce that we've been nominated for Fanzine of the Year at
@WeAreTheFSA
awards.
A massive thank you to everyone who has contributed this year. This is all down to you.
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10 years on. There’s still a part of me that still doesn’t think it’s real.
We all remember exactly where we were when we found out.
A brilliant man, father, footballer and manager.
Always missed, always in our thoughts.
RIP Gary.
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Today is one year since we launched Alternative Wales. I didn’t expect us to be this far along after a year so I just wanna say a huge diolch to everyone who has bought a fanzine, listened to the podcast or been involved in any way.
Plenty more to come from us 🏴
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FORGED: Football in Steeltown is out now.
Watch 👉
An Alternative Wales film, produced by
@terascymru
.
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"They don't make them like Chris Gunter anymore."
Diolch Chris.
Words:
@bryanmawrth
Image:
@ADowlingPhoto
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22 years ago tonight I went to my first Wales game. Wales 1-2 Finland. Quite a lot has happened since!
Cap 105 tonight, what an honour.
See below my stats and the first known photo of me in the red wall…
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More football clubs need to embrace the culture of the town or city they play in. Newport have absolutely nailed it with this.
It’s got a lot going for it, this city.
Introducing The Newport County AFC Away Kit for the 23/24 season. Celebrating the city of Newport and it’s surrounding areas, the shirt features the map of Gwent, represented in a subtle repeated camo effect.
@VX3apparel
|
#NCAFC
🧡🖤
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Today’s the day. Enjoy yourselves. Just remember this is only our second major tournament in most of our lifetimes. We’ve already won by getting this far, everything else is a bonus. 🏴✊
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Massive. Massive it is.
FT | 🏴 1-0 🏴
Victory for Cymru C at Stebonheath! 🤩
#CymruC
|
#TogetherStronger
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Here they are, the first ever Alternative Wales squad.
Good people, questionable footballers.
📸:
@ADowlingPhoto
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You only have to go back 8-10 years and we were barely selling 10,000 tickets for home games.
We've set a massively high bar for atmosphere over the last few campaigns. It can't always be like Austria or Ukraine.
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So that Together Stronger episode last night was special, wasn’t it?
We’re all truly blessed to be living through this golden age of Welsh football. What a privilege.
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God, I absolutely love Wales away so much. I’ve missed it.
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We were at Hensol Castle this morning to hear from the new
@Cymru
boss, Craig Bellamy, as he met the media for the first time. 👇
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I’m still trying to process last night. I can’t quite get my head around it. Absolutely unbelievable.
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I can’t really find the words right now. Just enjoy this night everyone, it’s a special feeling. 🏴
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ALTERNATIVE WALES XI VS. WALES SUPPORTERS TEAM
Before we take on Belarus next Saturday, we've arranged a charity match in support of David Brooks and Dan Barden.
All money raised will be donated to
@tenovuscancer
and
@LymphomaAction
.
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"Football is for every single person. It doesn’t matter where you’re from, it doesn’t matter what gender you are, it doesn’t matter whether you’re young or old, it just doesn’t matter."
Read more from our chat with
@JessFishlock
in Issue
#1
, out March 8th
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Surely if we can get a few thousand in Rodney Parade, the Liberty and the Cardiff City Stadium in the next few weeks then surely we can get a few hundred in for the Cymru Premier play offs in 2 weeks time?
@WelshGovernment
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Over the moon Boris Johnson didn’t mention Wales. Fuck ‘em.
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I'm going to watch Wales. In person. For the first time since November 2019.
See you there.
🏴✊
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Another international break is over, and it's been like no other before. I'm emotionally and physically shattered, so I dread to think what the players feel like.
But, when all is said and done, we're going to a World Cup.
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“It’s a fucked up world in a lot of ways but the process has started”
@megan_feringa
meets
@NevilleSouthall
to discuss social issues, the World Cup and Neville Southall, the man.
Read this special piece in Issue
#8
, out on November 7th.
Pre-order from
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I can understand professional games, it’s not ideal but it’s understandable but I don’t understand restrictions on Cymru Leagues clubs. It’s one of the safest activities to do surely? Horrible for these clubs that rely so much on match day income.
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How has he gone from a humble football podcast to doing food reviews?!
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Chuffed to be a sleeve sponsor for Llantwit Major next season 🏴
Thank you to
@alt_wales
who thanks to their sponsorship will have their logo on the sleeves of our shirt next season 🏴🏴
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Y Wal Goch looking splendid this evening. Best fans in the world. 🏴
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Another famous night in Welsh football. We’re making quite a habit of this aren’t we? Savour every moment. We march on. Yma o hyd 🏴
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Two years in the making, the rematch we’ve all been waiting for…
Alternative Wales vs. Wales Supporters Team
In aid of Jason Bowen’s battle with MND.
2pm @ Ocean Park, Cardiff before Wales take on Armenia later that evening.
Donate what you can here:
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Another really solid performance. It’s crazy how quickly we’ve become accustomed to just matching these top tier sides now.
It’s said a lot but nowhere near enough, Rob Page is doing an absolutely incredible job and long may it continue. 🏴
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We’re at the
@WeAreTheFSA
tonight. Will we win it? That’s not for me to decide. But it’s a lovely night out all the same.
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Would there be interest in a Cymru Leagues podcast?
More serious than our podcast, more focussed on the football and stories around the league. Think Guardian Football Weekly for Welsh domestic football.
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I was already invested in Wrexham going up, but now I’m dying to see them win the league just so their fans don’t have to make a club/country decision in June because I know how gut wrenching that decision will be.
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A massive thank you to
@LlantwitMajorFC
for lending us some of their kit for Matthew's team to wear on Sunday afternoon. Angel Rangel can be seen modelling it in the photo as he receives tactical instructions from Matthew.
You can still donate here 👉
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The ground, the crowd, the atmosphere.
Absolutely beautiful.
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A fishcake by the sea before a Welsh Cup semi-final.
This is Alternative Wales.
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North Wales football royalty gets to pour his own pint wherever he goes.
@TomiCaws
@ColwynBayFC
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Llantwit Major: Misfits and Scumbags
An Alternative Wales film, produced by
@terascymru
.
Out Monday 15th July.
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Llantwit Major: Misfits and Scumbags is out tonight at 7pm.
Subscribe to our YouTube so you don’t miss out 👉
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"I was unaware that this trip would set me on a new research path: gender relations in Welsh football."
@pennymiles31
shares her interviews with female Wales fans' experiences of Euro 2016.
Pre-order now on
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When the dust settles and the pain eases, we can look back and be proud of ourselves. We came and we had a go. This is just the start for a lot of this squad. Remember the pain, use it to enjoy our next high point. Gorau chwarae cyd chwarae. 🏴✊
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