ROUND BALL OR OVAL BALL? The Great Debate!

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It's that time of year when I start to usually rant on about those awful WRU 'Three Feathers' but, guess what? I am starting to bore myself on this issue. I am finding it hard to sustain the commitment to continue campaigning against this abomination any more, perhaps Adam Phillips of Balchder Cymru is right when he suggests the Welsh should just adopt it.

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I did counter Adam on this by simply pointing out that the problem was, that the Welsh had in fact adopted it as far back as 1715 officially and unofficially in 1415 at the Battle of Azincourt. However, I guess Adam was kind of making the point, that we could turn it to our advantage somehow? However, that line of reasoning makes me think, that somehow I cannot see Jews adopting the Swastika to have one up on the BNP, kind of thing! Whatever, the point is, the death of Ray Gravelle made me ponder on Rugby and do some research via Google, coming up with an interesting article on the subject which you will find a link to via http://cofcenedl.blogspot.com/ This led me to consider.........................................

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TIME FOR TINA TO KICK THE OVAL BALL INTO TOUCH.....
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So what then?

Maybe revive 'Cnapan', that was tried a few years back in Penfro but came unstuck with H&S issues and Insurance requirements. The world of Re-enactment is also being hit in similar ways, causing a bit of a crisis for the smaller Re-enactor Groups. However, maybe 'Bando' a traditional Welsh Game more akin to Irish Hurling is the answer as this could be better organised to meet H&S issues and lessen the Insurance and threat of Compensation Lawyers. In the mean time, for more on Bando, my Pwca Patriot Hero as illustrated opposite pop over to PWCA POWER http://pwcapower.blogspot.com/ Other than this, perhaps 'Adfywiadwyr Gwladgarol ' should bury Rugby and turn on to football, at least the Welsh National Football team sport a Red Dragon. I actually see more Baneri Dewi Sant and Baneri Glyndwr at football matches than at Rugby games.

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It will Interest you, that I found an appeal on the web by DKBA 'Davey K's Barmy Army' for donation to a fund to produce a gigantic White Eagle Cross flag to fly at football event at home and abroad, see following link : http://www.thedkba.com/index.html . I cannot truthfully say that I am a great fan of football but the subject of football and nationalism is of great interest, not least regards matters of Catalan Nationalism and of course Barcelona Football Club., see links below:

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Barcellona Footbal Club A few months later, Barcelona was under fascist occupation and as a symbol of Catalan nationalism, the club, now down to just 3486 members, ...www.informagiovani-italia.com/barcellona_football_club.htm - 33k - Cached - Similar pages

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Freedom For Catalonia? File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLFreedom for Catalonia? Catalan Nationalism, Spanish Identity,. and the Barcelona Olympic Games/John .... International Federation of Football Associations ...assets.cambridge.org/97805215/84265/frontmatter/9780521584265_frontmatter.pdf - Similar pages

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Faith in Football - TIME I am not Dutch, but I had grown up football-mad in a small Dutch town. .... Just as Barcelona used to stand for Catalan nationalism, so the Milan-Inter ...www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,658294,00.html - 42k - Cached - Similar pages

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Fc barcelona effect of th civil war cheap barcelona football tickets, buy barcelona fc tickets, spanish league ... identification with Catalan nationalism during a particular difficult period. ...www.barcelona-football-club.com/fc-barcelona-history2-en.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

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Nationalism and Intellectuals in Nations without States: the ... the processes which, in the 1960s and 1970s, turned Catalan nationalism from ...... the right for Catalonia to create its own Catalan Football Team able to ...www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9248.00291 - Similar pages

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FC Barcelona: a Secret National Team - Credit Suisse - In Focus That is why Oleguer is the saint and symbol of Catalan nationalism in the Camp Nou stands, where, ... Football newsletter – subscribe now (free) ...emagazine.credit-suisse.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=OpenArticle&aoid=154449&lang=EN - 42k - Cached - Similar pages

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You could also follow up with a look at Football and Nationalism in the former Communist State of Yougoslavia, if you have any useful info on this subject or a comment to make let me know via email.
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Hwyl

'Adfywiadwr Gwlagarol'

Gethin 'Iestyn' ap Gruffydd