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Feast of Football

12 Days of EJFOF: New Year's Eve - Central Midfielder

Feast of Football

BBC

Sports

4.8564 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you for downloading the 12 days of Edgefof where Iwan Roberts, Danny

0:09.9

Aberdon and I choose our greatest ever Welsh 11. So far we have Neville Southall in goal,

0:16.8

Ben Davis, Kevin Ratcliffe, John Charles and Chris Gunter as a back four and we have Gareth Bale playing wide on the right.

0:24.3

So let's do our first central midfielder. Iwan, who have you gone for?

0:30.1

I've gone for Terry Oreth.

0:31.9

Terry Oreth, okay. First from the 76 team we've got to the quarterfinals of the European Championships.

0:43.8

Great captain. I played for that. Leeds, great side in the 70s. Great with a ball at his feet. Strong, could tackle, box to box. Very similar to me. Neck, the man that's going to play

0:54.6

I think that's what you need

0:56.7

when you're playing a 4-4-2

0:57.9

you've got to have mobile

0:59.6

midfielders who can get up and down

1:01.2

who can cover the pitch

1:02.4

and can nick you a goal as well

1:04.8

played in the 75 European Cup final

1:08.4

played at the highest level

1:09.9

played for a great club site and played for a successful Wales team as well. You would have played under him, would you? I did, I did. What was he like as a manager? He came to my, I got married in Cardiff in early 90s, and I invited him and Peter Shreaves to the night do. And to be fair, they both turned up. Oh. Because I'm not sure there was a reason why they were in Cardiff and they popped over for an hour and a couple of drinks. And he's a great man. He's a great man. That's great. Who have you got, Danny? Give me hope. Joe Allen, give me hope. Joe Allen, give me hope. Joe Allen to the morning. No, Joe Allen, yeah. No, I think for me, one of the best all around midfielders I've had the pleasure of kind of playing with. I think he's won. I mean, I've named a few players obviously from the current team and

2:02.3

they've all kind of grown the more cats they've gone and the more hurdles they've had to jump

2:07.8

over they've just seemed to get better and better and I think he's a he's another one his performances

2:13.5

in the euros for me was alongside Rambo was our best

2:17.9

Welsh player

2:18.7

and I just think

2:20.8

he's one of those

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