The Road to Yr Almaen

VAR, the DDR and The Curse of Split

The Size of Cymru panel goes back to Split to discuss the Croatian curtain raiser with Daniela Rogulj and ask whether we played with our hearts or just our broad head. We look back on the Latvia match, go back to the DDR to hear about the only time a club from Wales played in the German Democratic Republic, and we also speak to Angharad Davies in Madrid about the inner workings of VAR. Further Reading: * The Turning Season: DDR-Oberliga Revisited [https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/turning-season], Michael Wagg (Pitch Publishing, 2020) * ⁠⁠Do You Speak Football?: A Glossary of Football Words and Phrases from Around the World⁠⁠ [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/do-you-speak-football-9781472947215/], Tom Williams (Bloomsbury, 2018) * ⁠⁠When Newport County went behind the Iron Curtain – and had a brush with the Stasi [https://nation.cymru/sport/when-newport-county-went-behind-the-iron-curtain-and-had-a-brush-with-the-stasi], Christopher Evans (Nation.Cymru) Presenter: Rhys Edwards: @peskikid [https://www.instagram.com/peskikid/]⁠⁠⁠ Panel: Christopher Evans: @JervisEvans [https://twitter.com/JervisEvans];⁠⁠⁠ Tom Williams: @tomwfootball [https://twitter.com/tomwfootball];⁠⁠⁠⁠ Daniela Rogulj: @daniela_rogulj [https://twitter.com/daniela_rogulj]; Angharad Davies: @AngharaDavies [https://twitter.com/AngharaDavies]

The Road to Yr Almaen

Catch up with The Size of Cymru as the panel previews Wales’s Euro 2024 qualifying campaign. The road to Yr Almaen begins in Bern as we learn about how a Welshman’s flag changed the course of world history forever. We admire some mountain goats near Zagreb before arriving in the beautiful Dalmatian city of Split to catch up with our friend, Daniela Rogulj. Further Reading: * Tor!: The Story of German Football [https://www.wsc.co.uk/shop/tor-2022-edition/], Uli Hesse (WSC Books, 2013) ⁠ * Do You Speak Football?: A Glossary of Football Words and Phrases from Around the World [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/do-you-speak-football-9781472947215/]⁠⁠⁠⁠, Tom Williams (Bloomsbury, 2018) * The forgotten story of Welsh referee Mervyn ‘Sandy’ Griffiths and ‘The Miracle of Bern’ [https://nation.cymru/sport/the-forgotten-story-of-welsh-referee-mervyn-sandy-griffiths-and-the-miracle-of-bern/], Christopher Evans (Nation.Cymru) Presenter: Rhys Edwards: @peskikid [https://www.instagram.com/peskikid/]⁠⁠⁠ Panel: Christopher Evans: @JervisEvans [https://twitter.com/JervisEvans];⁠⁠⁠ Tom Williams: @tomwfootball [https://twitter.com/tomwfootball];⁠⁠⁠⁠ Daniela Rogulj: @daniela_rogulj [https://twitter.com/daniela_rogulj]

A “pecho frío” of a January

Catch up with The Size of Cymru panel as they digest Wales’s World Cup woes, take stock of Bale’s festive announcement and assess whether we’re in a good shape for another Türkiye. We also check-in with our friend Beñat Gutiérrez in the Basque Country and learn more about the controversial 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Recorded at Tramshed Tech, Cardiff.Further Reading: Blood On The Crossbar: The Dictatorship’s World Cup, Rhys Richards (Pitch Publishing, 2022) Do You Speak Football?: A Glossary of Football Words and Phrases from Around the World, Tom Williams (Bloomsbury, 2018) Les buts de ma vie, Michel Hidalgo (Robert Laffont, 1986) Panel: Rhys Edwards is the accidental presenter of The Size of Cymru. He is an award winning musician and producer who's recent work was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize Award (Tresor, Gwenno). Over the years, he has managed a now defunct independent record label (Peski) and championed experimental music through the CAM platform. Rhys is a lifelong Wrexham AFC fan. Instagram: @peskikid Christopher Evans is a writer and journalist from Caerleon in south Wales. He writes regularly for Nation.Cymru and has been published in numerous national and international publications, often writing about football, history, music and politics. Christopher is a Newport County fan. Twitter: @JervisEvans Rhys Richards is a writer and English teacher from Pen y Graig in the Rhondda Valleys. He has been published in The Guardian and has written for These Football Times, The Football Pink and The Football History Boys, primarily focussing on football's role in Latin American history. His first book, Blood On The Crossbar: The Dictatorship’s World Cup, was published by Pitch Publishing in September 2022. Rhys is a Cardiff City fan. Twitter: @rhyswrichards Tom Williams is a Welsh football writer and broadcaster who specialises in English and French football. He is the Premier League expert on the flagship Canal+ football programme Canal Football Club and a regular guest on the UK's leading football podcast, The Totally Football Show. His first book, Do You Speak Football?, was published by Bloomsbury in May 2018. Twitter: @tomwfootball / Instagram: @tomwfootball

Trailer - The Size of Cymru

The Size of Cymru is a podcast roughly the size of any other football podcast, but this one is very much focused on the off-field, the left-field, on culture, history, music, language, politics, radical ideas and much much more. Over the next few months, we’ll bring you our regular panel show, micro-documentaries and big interviews in both Welsh and English. The Size of Cymru.... your internationalist podcast from Wales. Subscribe now on whichever platform you get your podcasts. Music: Machynlleth Sound Machine [https://ffrancon.info/about/] Produced by Oleia.