Return to Planet Football – Belgium 0 Wales 0

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The cosmic buzz is back.

Last spotted in the ether leaving the Millennium Stadium after the 2003 play-off fiasco in Cardiff, en route to Planet Zog. Through your pain, tears and soul-sucking misery you probably didn’t see it. But I did.

Reappearance dated November 16, 2014. Brussels. We all saw it, smelt it, cherished it, revelled in it, ran our fingers nostalgically through its luxuriant locks and remembered the lost passion we thought we’d never encounter again.

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Wales 0 Bosnia 0

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Let’s hope that in a year’s time we don’t all think: “If only Ashley WIlliams had scored.”

No quibbles with the outcome, a fair reflection of a strangely entertaining game. Not many 0-0s are so engrossing.

But it would be nice to have an unfair reflection of the game in the scoreline someday, unfair in our favour.

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Will Wales qualify?

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It’s now or never, isn’t it?

If we can’t qualify when the gates gape as wide as Euro2016’s do, it isn’t going to happen.

Twenty-three teams go through and, after sifting out the no-hopers, that means about 36 countries are vying for those slots.

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Bosnia 1 Wales 2 (2008)

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Bosnia v Wales, Sarajevo 2008

It all started so well. Was it an omen? The clerk at Sarajevo’s Lion Hostel (Grrrrrrr!) asked: “English?”

“No, Welsh!”

He’d heard of us!

“Wales? Jimmyfloydhasselbaink! Very good game against Coventry.”

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11 cracking Germany games

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20140712-153752-56272785.jpgGermany matches are always a thrill.

Back in the day if they lost and you were there you were guaranteed an unforgettable experience and a warming dose of schadenfreude that flooded organs you didn’t know you possessed.

Since seeing them three times at the 2006 World Cup, even their wins have become something to relish as my weltanschauung has widened and I learned that the childhood Victor comic German was an embarrassing cliche..

Here’s the cracking 11 Germany games I’ve been to, each memorable in its own way.

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Wales 1 Ukraine 1

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Wales v Ukraine, World Cup qualifier, LlanelliThe Welsh women’s team wasted a wonderful chance to enhance their World Cup qualification hopes in this fitfully entertaining draw.

An equaliser in the 78th minute from the home side’s best player Natasha Harding clawed back a point after Wales showed a lack of wit and trickery.

A win would have opened up a headlong charge for the top spot, with group favourites England to be hosted in August and the result seemed like a missed opportunity.

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Laugharne Festival

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Martin Rowsons cartoon of Dylan and Caitlin Thomas, LaugharneDid cosmic intergalactic forces divert David Icke from a key mission? And how did Ray Davies survive the curse of Neath to prosper?

Just some of the conundrums the 2014 Laugharne Festival failed to solve.

Icke did not attend and his entourage were reportedly uncontactable. The Kinks’ genius fortunately did appear and was full of bizarre, well-observed tales from an extraordinary career.

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