At The Match Revisited: Wales 1-4 Spain, 2018
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What with football on a lengthy hiatus due to COVID-19, and us all stuck inside as a result, we thought we'd take a look back at some of our favourite episodes from past series of At The Match! Join Football Ramble Daily's Andy Brassell on his travels far and wide, as he samples some of the best atmospheres in world football and speak to those at the coalface of the game.
Today, we join Andy in Cardiff as Wales' return to the Principality Stadium was spoiled by an imperious Spain side and helped out by some abject defending from the hosts. Andy speaks Russell Todd of Podcast Pêl-droed on what following the national team means, the identity of Welsh football, what returning the Millennium Stadium was like and Bobby Gould’s kit design skills.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Ramblers, and welcome to a little revisit of our series at the match, which we made to bring you the atmosphere from some of the UK and Europe's most interesting grounds and games, which for obvious reasons, while we've mostly indoors, I've been really enjoying really listening to a, like a resampling the roar of the crowd. |
| 0:16.0 | This is the first ever episode we did when me and photographer Sam hopped in the car and headed home with Bant, with her here, in many ways, down the M4 to Cardiff, where Wales were taken on Spain at the Millennium, and straight away we get to that sweet spot that we're trying to bring you the bit where you hear the rendition of Land of Our Fathers from the top of the game through your headphones is really special. |
| 0:34.0 | And then we get into the burgeoning relationship between Wales and its national team, why bigger isn't always better in terms of stadiums, and much more. |
| 0:42.0 | This is at the match from Wales versus Spain on 11th October 2018. |
| 0:46.0 | I can see the stadium, definitely there's houses there. The media is right in the middle of the city centre, isn't it? |
| 0:52.0 | It is right there. It's a good tune, I love. |
| 0:55.0 | It's busy, isn't it? Busy. |
| 0:58.0 | Daffodils as far as the eye can see. |
| 1:00.0 | What? A Daffhat or a half and half scarf, what's your reckon? |
| 1:04.0 | Always a Daffhat. |
| 1:09.0 | I don't know if the other side of the game are from the company, but you're doing something for the national club of Wales. |
| 1:15.0 | No wild wolf, you can't know from my canager, or you knew from my mouth there, the Red Wall, City Cloud and Prod. |
| 1:27.0 | The Red Wall, City Cloud and Prod. |
| 1:57.0 | The Red Wall, City Cloud and Prod. |
| 2:28.0 | The Red Wall, City Cloud and Prod. |
| 2:43.0 | The last time I came to a game at the Millennium Stadium, as I still insist on calling it here, I worked out it was in summer 2007. |
| 2:55.0 | Wales were playing Czech Republic. It was probably about one-third full, I would say. |
| 3:02.0 | Having gone back and looked it up to make sure I had the right date, the right year, even. |
| 3:10.0 | I was amazed to see it was Ryan Giggs's last international match. |
| 3:14.0 | Now he is here as a coach. |
| 3:17.0 | How much has changed in the meantime? |
| 3:22.0 | A huge amount has changed, I mean Bale was playing that day, from what I remember. |
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