Leon Barton There are many questions to ask about Wales manager Craig Bellamy ahead of the Nations League campaign kicking off in Portugal. Will Act 2 of the Bellamy reign also be the final act? Or wi...

Leon Barton A few years back, the Porthcawl-raised sociologist Dr. Dan Evans – while having one of his semi-regular rants about his adopted hometown of Cardiff – complained on social media that the We...

Leon Barton With the Premier League season now underway, a lot of Welsh eyes will be on a city in West Yorkshire over 80 miles from the nearest border crossing to Wales. Even the departure of goalkeep...

Leon Barton The first Wales game I attended was April 30th 1985; the famous 3-0 shellacking of Spain in Wrexham. I can still name the Welsh eleven off the top of my head: Neville Southall in goal with...

Leon Burton Remarkably, tonight’s fixture against Ghana at the Cardiff City Stadium will be only the second time Wales have met African opponents, 28 years on from the last time time we were pre-World...

Leon Burton Remarkably, tonight’s fixture against Ghana at the Cardiff City Stadium will be only the second time Wales have met African opponents, 28 years on from the last time time we were pre-World...

In conversion with Tirolean musician and prominent handpan player Manu Delago.

Leon Barton There is a Clough connection with Wales of course in that Port Talbot’s Michael Sheen famously portrayed the man known semi-affectionately as ‘Old Big ‘Ead’ in the 2009 film The Damned Uni...

Leon Barton It’s now thirty years since Wales’ greatest, most unique band released the ‘Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllantysiliogogogochynygofod (In Space)’ EP on the Ankst label. SFA quickly ...

My personal Substack. Click to read Leon’s Substack, by Leon Barton, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

Leon Barton Heol Cwmamman in Garnant, Carmarthenshire (population 2,023 at the last census) is one of those classically Welsh sloping streets. It’s now home to a shop, a pub, a pharmacy, a chinese tak...

Leon Barton For some reason, Swansea-Neath tends to be overlooked when the UK media looks at areas that have produced a lot of footballers. South London, Newcastle, Merseyside and Glasgow are the plac...

Leon Barton Ahh, January 25th, St Dwynwen’s Day; The Welsh St Valentine. So, while it’s Burns night in Scotland it’s carpet burns night in Wales, amiright?? Here are a few of my favourite love songs f...

Leon Barton Last month’s 2-2 draw in Reykjavik was actually the first time Wales had played Iceland in a competitive game for forty years. There were three friendlies in between, all Welsh wins. The m...

Drawing on your recollections and those of some of the key people involved on the day Leon Barton remembers how that fateful day 25 years ago against Romania panned out: from the build-up through...