Gareth Bale
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 5 Mar
Gareth Bale’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And again, John Toshek did a great job bringing the team, I guess the youngsters in, together.
His always thing was to get us 20, 30, 40 caps.
So then we become an experienced team and we're quite young and what we can do.
So he took a big gamble and I guess a risk, which started that kind of, I guess, era of Welsh football.
And then...
It was very amateurly run.
We would be coming down and eating a bacon sandwich, walking down to training.
Well, we didn't have a fit side plan as well.
Dean Saunders would be taking the warm-ups.
There wasn't much of a structure, and you could then soon realise why we didn't qualify for many tournaments.
And then Gary Speed obviously came in and kind of brung that club culture, got the sports science in, got everything done, new hotel.
just everything done properly and just kind of built that foundation where obviously then it grew, obviously the tragedy that happened, but it then enabled the next manager and the next managers just to build off it and it then became people wanted to come and play for Wales and we looked forward to going away to Wales rather than like, I'm sure it might have been similar to Ireland.
Absolutely, you're spot on.
And it's like...
As much as I love playing for my country, and there's no better thing, to go away sometimes, like, you come from, like, being at Tottenham and Southampton, it's like this amazing, like, you have everything given to you and provided for you, and you go away to Wales, you're like, it's just not really.
But that was the times back then, and it's something that needed to happen, we needed to grow, and we did, and, yeah, then it kind of built that foundation to...
The biggest difference from Ireland and Wales, we don't have the funds to...
Give us everything.
Build us St George's Bar.
We don't have that kind of money.
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