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Feast of Football

12 Days of EJFOF: 27th December - Centre-back

Feast of Football

BBC

Sports

4.8564 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

On the third day of EJFOF, Elis James, Danny Gabbidon and Iwan Roberts give to you, a centre-back for the EJFOF all-time Wales XI.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you for downloading the Edgefof 12 days of Christmas where we choose our greatest ever Welsh 11.

0:13.0

And today we're choosing a centre back.

0:15.5

I'll start with you.

0:16.9

Who are you choosing?

0:18.1

I'm going to go for Gavin McGuire.

0:21.0

Oh, no. Seriously, I've got to stick John Charles in there.

0:24.7

Yes.

0:25.7

Big John.

0:26.6

Well, the thing with John Charles, obviously, he was regarded as the best centre half in football

0:31.8

and regarded as the best centre forward in football.

0:34.2

So where do you choose him?

0:35.0

But we're so blessed with striking talent

0:39.5

in wales over the you know over the sort of hundred years or last over the last hundred years or so

0:44.6

john charles is an obvious fit at set and a half because you can't not pick him where did he

0:48.5

where did he get most of his caps for well what played most of his games up front, I think.

0:55.1

But he was a very...

0:55.8

He was as good at the back as he was at the top.

0:59.2

An incredible head of the ball.

1:01.8

Just, they're still talking about a minute to be 60 years on.

1:05.1

And anybody's got a statue himself outside the event as a stadium is...

1:10.0

Yeah.

1:11.7

As a foreign player. player well the Italian press

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