When Cardiff City chairman Mehmet Dalman clinched the signing of Bruno Manga five years ago he told me the Gabon international was the ‘final piece of the Bluebirds’ jigsaw’. Nobody can fault Dalman’s logic because City swept back into Premier League football, but now it is time to build again. London-based Dalman has abandoned any […]

Barry Town United have pulled off a signing coup by snapping up National League midfield player Keyon Reffell for the new season. Playmaker Reffell, a former Cardiff City trainee, turned down a contract offer from Hereford FC to sign for Welsh Premier League Barry. “This move has probably been 10 years in the making,” says […]

Former Swansea City winger Kerry Morgan is tipping Merthyr Town for Southern League success in the new season. The Martyrs have strengthened their squad in terms of quality and numbers, underlining their progress with wins against Swansea City under-23 team and Cwmbran Celtic. Manager Gavin Williams and his team face another tough test on Saturday […]

Pembrokeshire’s James Tomlinson has been named joint captain of the Great Britain team at this week’s European Under-20 Athletics Championships in Sweden. Discus ace Tomlinson and long jumper Holly Mills will lead the British challenge at the event which starts in Boras on Thursday. British u-18 discus record holder Tomlinson has enjoyed a strong start […]

Paul Ring was captain of St Peter’s RFC when they caused the biggest shock in Welsh Cup history, but I doubt the euphoria he felt that day in 1993 could match his achievement for Old Farts Cycling Club. Ring’s Rocks defeated Cardiff RFC 26 years ago – and losing coach Alex Evans gave a suitable […]

James Williams will make his European Rally Championship debut this weekend when the 21-year old Newcastle Emlyn driver contests the Rally di Roma Capitale. The trip to Italy comes courtesy of Williams winning his class on the recent Ypres Rally, a round of the British Rally Championship. Co-driven by Tom Woodburn, Williams – who studies Motorsport Management at Swansea University – will drive the new-for-2019 M-Sport designed Ford Fiesta R2T.

Bodmin Town 2, Cardiff City Development 3 The Bluebirds were hit by a Tornado in Cornwall, but they stood up to the battering in a fiercely contested and physical pre-season fixture. Cardiff City also had a surprise visitor when first team defender Sol Bamba turned up at the team hotel, the St Million Resort near […]

Tom Llewellin has been crowned Junior champion in the Pirelli Motorsport UK Welsh Forest Rally Championship, after clinching the title after another dominant performance on the Nicky Grist Stages. The talented Pembrokeshire teenager has won the Junior section on all six rallies held so far this year, setting an impressive pace in his Historic-spec Brace’s Bakery-backed Ford Escort Mk2. Llewellin’s prize for winning the Junior title is a test in a PCRS Rallysport Hyundai i20 R5, courtesy of onthepacenote.co.uk.

Mark Richardson, the British rock on which Cardiff Devils have built their success over the last five years, has committed to the Elite League play-off champions again. Defenceman ‘Richie’, who has been with Devils for 12 seasons, has been remarkably consistent for Cardiff and last season and finished 2018-19 with only eight penalty minutes from […]

Elfyn Evans will miss the next round of the FIA World Rally Championship, Rally Finland. The 30-year old Dolgellau driver has been ruled out on medical grounds, having suffered a heavy landing at last weekend’s Rally Estonia. Currently sitting fourth in the championship standings, Evans will now focus on making a full and swift recovery to continue what has been a strong performance from him and co-driver Scott Martin so far this season.

The Bluebirds have allowed one senior striker to leave Cardiff City, while centre-forward Kenneth Zohore looks certain to complete an £8m transfer to West Brom. Rhys Healey has joined MK Dons in a full transfer, while Zohore has left City’s pre-season tour in North America to have a medical at West Brom’s training ground. The […]

The continent’s fastest teenager launches his bid to lift the 100m European Under-20 title in Sweden this Thursday lunchtime. Cardiff’s Jeremiah Azu will line-up in heat five of the 100m qualifiers just before noon in Boras. Having slashed more than a third of a second off his personal best this season, the 18-year-old goes into […]

Max Boyce had better get his pen out and write a new sporting song because the Welsh outside half factory is being replaced by an international cycling production line. While the nation waits to see if Geraint Thomas can make it back-to-back Tour de France titles, the signs are that his exploits in the saddle […]

Manager Michael Flynn is keen to strengthen his Newport County squad with two more signings – in midfield and attack. The Exiles are aiming to recruit a loan signing to cover for Ade Azeez, who is ruled out for up to six months with an Achilles injury. Flynn is also keen to sign a midfield […]

Bethan Dyke announced her return to full fitness by playing a full part in the Welsh Netball Summer Test Series. Wales fought out six games in seven days, winning four, with the mid-court player standing tall at wing-attack or centre. Former Cardiff Met University student Bethan, originally from Bridgend, was out injured for nine months, […]

AFC Tavistock 0, Cardiff City 7 Hat-trick hero Gary Madine and playmaker Lee Tomlin teased and tormented hosts AFC Tavistock in the opening fixture of Cardiff City’s under-23 tour to Devon and Cornwall. Centre-forward Madine scored three times in the first 30 minutes, two of them created by the ever-dangerous Tomlin, who weighed with in […]

The move into the centre of Builth Wells proved a huge success, as Saturday’s Nicky Grist Stages produced a carnival atmosphere and a great sporting occasion – with Euan Thorburn/Paul Beaton winning the event in their Ford Focus WRC to clinch the 2019 Jordan Road Surfacing BTRDA Rally Series title. Whilst the competitive element of the event took place in the famous Mid-Wales forest stages of Crychan, Halfway, Monument and Llyn Login, the Start and Finish ceremonies were held in Groe Park and the Service Area was on the Builth Wells RFC pitch. Thanks to the combined effort of event organisers Quinton Motor Club, Builth Wells Town Council and Powys County Council, the move into town brought a lot of extra trade to the high street and proved to be a big hit.

Welsh squash ace Joel Makin is eyeing up a place among the World top eight players. Pembrokeshire-born Makin goes into the 2019-20 season at number 13 and earned a confidence-boosting win against Egyptian Mohamed ElShorbagy, the former World number one. “I have shown I can beat guys in the top 10,” says Makin. “I’m in […]

The Welsh Sports Association – the organisation representing the governing bodies of sports in Wales – have appointed Lynn Pamment as their new independent chair. A senior partner at accountancy and audit specialists PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Pamment replaces Helen Humphrey, who is stepping down after three years, and says she wants to help promote active lifestyles in Wales.

The Historic Sports Car Club’s inaugural race meeting at the spectacular Anglesey Circuit in North Wales last weekend delivered a fabulous weekend of racing as drivers loved the track and its coastal setting. The first Tom Pryce Memorial Meeting featured 20 races, a total entry of more than 170 cars and a very special tribute to the life of Welsh racing driver Tom Pryce. The weekend also included the first stand-alone races for Formula Atlantic since the 1980s and the whole event was run in warm and sunny conditions. As well as racing, many competitors took time out to enjoy the beaches of Anglesey and the whole weekend ran in a wonderful holiday atmosphere. Such was the overwhelmingly positive response from competitors that the Club is already planning to return.