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Rhys W Richards
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Author of 'Blood On The Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup'. Cardiff City. Cymro i'r carn.

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You're going to need a bigger shelf!
November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
They have a play book:

•Say something racist.
•Say something racister.
•Say something racistest.

Then say, 'At the end of the day, I'm just a normal bloke who loves his family and his country. Is anything wrong with that?'.
October 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
You may as well dig a hole in the ground and shout into that. They don't take anything in.
October 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Brevity really is the soul of wit. She's packed a hell of a lot into that 280 character tweet.
October 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Ah yeah course it was, that was the whole point 😂. You'd be pleased to know my attention to detail was better when I actually wrote it
October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🔗 Pre-order here:

Blood on The Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup.

This is the story of the most controversial World Cup in history; Argentina 1978. Read the story of the dictators, the disappeared and every ball kicked in between.

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October 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I wrote a book about that World Cup. Scotland get a chapter, but of course, I had to mention Joe Jordan's Ninian Park handball.

Well, I guess I didn't *have* to.

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Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup
Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of football's most controversial tournament: Argentina's 1978 World Cup. It was a tournament that took place during a brutal military d...
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October 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The way the Jets managed the final minute of that half was... interesting.
October 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM