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I think I’ll leave this one to Michael Sheen.
Yep, it’s Wales’ first World Cup game since 19 June 1958, when a future Viagra salesman named Edson Arantes do Nascimento beat them in the quarter-finals. They’ve had a number of near misses since, none more painful or poignant than 17 November 1993, but it feels almost cheesily appropriate that this golden age of Welsh football should end with them finally reaching a World Cup. As someone who is neither Welsh nor patriotic, I can’t pretend to understand how this feels, or what it says about national identity. But I’d have to be the king of all dullards not to appreciate how important tonight is to approximately 3.19 million people.
