Laura Kenyon
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My little Ely boy signing on the dotted line… 📝
@CardiffCityFC
⚽️
Congratulations, Apollo 🎉 (real tears shed in the car by one emotional mum)
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A tribute to women working in football ❤️📝 Keep doing you. You are enough ⚽️
Great to be back at
@CardiffCityFC
v
@MillwallFC
today for
#FinalScore
and
@5liveSport
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Two weeks after Wales took on the world champs, USA, in California.
Can’t help but think
@Cymru
would be more than comfortable at this World Cup… major tournament in touching distance
#WomensWorldCup2023
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New campaign. Same goal: qualification for a major finals. Wales 🏴 v Kazakhstan on
@BBCSportWales
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Oh my. The magic roundabout awaits you
@ManCity
🚌 🤩🍻
🏆 | Yes, that's right!
We've been drawn at home to
@premierleague
Giants
@ManCity
in the Third Round of the
@EmiratesFACup
!
#STFC
🔴⚪️
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Amazing to be back at the County Ground today for
@Official_STFC
v
@ntfc
A 7-goal thriller on New Year’s Day 💥 for
#FinalScore
@BBCSport
Even had a couple cheerleaders there for me 😉👨👦
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When you turn up to the
@BBCSportWales
christmas party in matching outfits…
#NadoligLlawen
@robphillipshere
🤣 🎄
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A life goal achieved to broadcast on Final Score and 5live Sport. Forever grateful 🙏
#BBCfootball
#SCFC
#BRFC
thank you for easing my many, many nerves with your superb presentation
@markchapman
&
@jasonmohammad
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We have a very happy 5 year old tonight. First under 6s tournament for
@SwansOfficial
pre academy in Carmarthen v teams from across south Wales. Apollo’s team won every game and ended on a 6-1 win in the final 🤩🏆🦢 not a bad Sunday’s work, kiddo! ⚽️ 💪
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Tough evening for Swansea but great to finally see them back playing after such a long break. Great spirit from Southampton with 10 men for the majority.
Thanks for joining us on BBC One Wales for the MOTD coverage 🙏 ‘twas a chilly one 🥶
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Well what a game
@SwansOfficial
v
@NFFC
turned out to be! Congrats Swans. Think
@Gabbidon35
and I will be investing in some heated socks in future though 🧦🥶😂
#BBCfootball
#MOTD
⚽️
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After last night’s result you can imagine just how buzzing he was to pull on the kit today for
@SwansOfficial
pre academy 🦢 ⚽️ face says it all 😂
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Get yourself to an
@AdranLeagues
game ⚽️
Apollo and I had a wonderful evening at
@CardiffCityFCW
v
@Wrexham_AFC
Great game. Battled the elements 🌧️ all the players stayed to take photos and sign autographs at the end.
£6 we paid. SIX pounds.
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Here we go then. Big game. Wales v Estonia. BBC Two Wales, Red Button, iPlayer and BBC Sport website.
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2020:
#STFC
win the League Two title 🏆
2021: just 11 players under contract, players & staff not paid last month, a vacuum at the top with no manager, chief exec, and reportedly no director of football, and legal cases facing the club’s ownership.
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Struggling to get my head round the issues at
#STFC
Such a sad state of affairs for a club adored by the community in Swindon
STFC: Swindon Town players and staff have not been paid this month amid ongoing takeover issues.
Pre-season training - due to start this week, has been pushed back to next Monday.
BBC Radio Wiltshire has been told the club can't comment
#stfc
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22.02.2022 🎂🥳🎉
So long 20s.. hello 30s 👋
(Plan to continue milking the birthday celebrations for the foreseeable 💃🏻)
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A “pinch me” moment yesterday. Apollo on the pitch ⚽️, Mum reporting for Final Score🎙️
Beyond proud of this long legged boy! As my best friend says, should have been a ballerina with that leg extension 🩰🤣
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Reporting from the beautiful but empty atrium at BBC Central Square. A well earned point v Slovenia for
@Cymru
. Tuesday at Cardiff City Stadium will be a different matter though, 3,800 tickets sold. FAW hoping for a record of just over 5,000. Would be great to see that happen 🤩
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BIG day for
@BBCRadioWales
&
@BBCSportWales
🙌
#RadioWalesSport
is back at 2pm and from our new home at Central Square for the first time. Pro14 returns & a Welsh derby for the first programme 😍🏉
@philsteele1
and
@nick8williams
at Parc y Scarlets 📻 💪 What 👏 a 👏 day 👏
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Another day, another challenge ✅ and always topless 🤔🤣 this time modelling
@juventusfc
shorts
#IsolationLife
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After what seems like hours of negotiating with my 2 year old son to get him turn off Peppa Pig, I finally sit down to watch some grown up tv. Switch to “Have I Got News For You” and what are they discussing?! Effing Peppa Pig!!!!! 😱🤦♀️
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Well if the football promises anything as stunning as this 🌈 😍 we’re in for a treat! Swansea v Peterborough (1500 KO) updates on
#FinalScore
#bbcsport
@BBCSport
@BBCSportWales
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When you make a mistake on air and have to fess up 🙈🙈🙈 was bound to happen at some point 😅 forgive me
@jasonmohammad
🙏
#honestyisthebestpolicy
#FinalScore
#Bluebirds
#Preston
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Amazing to see a record crowd at
@Cymru
v Estonia tonight. So much has changed since that first official match in ‘93… although I will be starting an official campaign to bring back these shirts
@suyoung1972
😁👌
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Every now and then you get the chance to do something that feels genuinely important.
Was a privilege to host the FAW x BBC “With Her - For Her” panel.
Genuine superheroes 🦸♀️
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Not even this massive coat could save me tonight 🥶🥶🥶
@Cymru
battled the elements and won ☔️ 5-0 v 🇬🇷 Roll on 🇫🇷 now off to defrost
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Greece 🇬🇷 v Wales 🏴 BBC Two Wales 📺, Red Button 🔴, BBC Sport website 💻 BIG game ⚽️
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Best part of reporting from games like
@SwansOfficial
v
@NFFC
for
@5liveSport
last night is coming home and playing it back the next day for my son 💜 the only time I see a glimmer of pride, instead of an eye roll 🙄
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Well, what a
#MothersDay
gift this is... a highlights reel of all* the times my son has embarrassed me with a football. (*clearly not all or the video would be an hour long)
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Due to what I can only assume is a massive rota error, I’ll be at the
@principalitysta
reporting live from this game for
@BBCRadioWales
⚽️ 📻 🙌 got my eyes peeled for
@Daniel_James_97
#blinkandyoullmisshim
🔥
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About last night… The calm before a 🏴 storm at Cardiff City Stadium 🏟
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Every now and then, a game happens that reserves a very special place in footballing history. Honoured to narrate this one for
@simondavies45
, who’s written and produced a little gem about the night
@CardiffCityFC
beat
@realmadriden
What a story
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About to go on air with
#FinalScore
and inadvertently pap an unsuspecting
@gwennanharries
😂🙊 quiet game... only the 4 goals and two missed pens 😳
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It may have been against the kids but you can’t take prisoners when the
@CaerauElyFC
Boxing Day bragging rights are up for grabs 👀
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You only have my word for it… but ONE take, baby 🔥👍😂
@FootballFiesta_
#topbins
#likemotherlikeson
👀🤣
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What a moment in time we’re witnessing for women’s football right now ✨ unfolding before our very eyes and about time too. Forever privileged to be a small part of this magnificent sport for a job - surrounded by strong advocates of women’s sport 💪 Roll on Switzerland🇨🇭🏴
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Four 3pm KOs left standing in the Championship… and I’m off to one of them ⚽️😁 see you soon Ashton Gate
@BristolCity
v
@htafc
#bbcfootball
#BBCFinalScore
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Loved my
#CallRob
debut on
@BBCRadioWales
Thanks for having me
@robphillipshere
and
@robbo9rovers
👍 top team under
@MollyStephens_
superb guidance!! ⚽️📞
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A privilege to be part of
@BBCSportWales
MOTD coverage of
@Cymru
v Norway today. Just a shame it had to be heartbreak for Wales 💔 ⚽️
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Well the cat’s out the bag 🐈 after an amazing few years in news, I’m now ready for my next challenge 💪 very excited to be joining the team
@BBCSportWales
⚽️🏑🏉🏏🎱🏒🎾
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Not the goal-fest we had on Friday but two wins from two and 2 clean sheets for
@Cymru
🏴 pleasure working with this lot again
@catheledd
@niajones92
@KatieSherwood8
⚽️
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Starting today… There’s football on almost every single day for an entire month. An 👏 entire 👏 month 👏 After the year we’ve had this is SO what we needed 😭 ⚽️
#EURO2020
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Whilst I was at
@FulhamFC
⚽️ v
@afcbournemouth
🍒 for
#FinalScore
today… my son was playing Leicester
@LCFC
🦊
And happened to bump into a familiar face 🤩🤩🤩 🐐
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Looking forward to getting back to a bit of this tomorrow! 🎤
Slovenia 🇸🇮 v Wales 🏴 7.15 KO
BBC Two Wales 📺
@BBCSport
website ✍️
@BBCRadioWales
📻
@BBCCymruFyw
⚽️
200th game for 🏴💪
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He’d be out there practicing all night if we let him 😂⚽️ the
@mizza10
skill school in full flow!!
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This was great. Love offering advice (always subjective) but never be afraid to follow your own path. Sports journalism is a crazy industry, changing all the time. We should embrace our differences. How boring would it be if we were all the same 🤷♀️
@RTSCymruWales
@MetBroadcast
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Can just about see the black seats of the new temporary stand from the press box
@NewportCounty
9,000 expected today. A sell out for
@Wrexham_AFC
‘s first visit to Rodney Parade since the FA Cup in 2018
@5liveSport
#BBCFootball
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Under no illusion this has all happened in the space of 12 months, issues like that develop over years, but it’s just so difficult to see with any club, let alone when it’s your hometown
#STFC
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Historic night under the lights ✨⚽️Wales v Slovenia on BBC One Wales 📺 BBC Sport website, Cymru Fyw & iPlayer 💻 BBC Radio Wales 📻
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2021 leg of 🏴‘s World Cup qualifying campaign complete ✅ but SO much more to come. Thanks to the MOTD Wales team 🙏who run the world? 👯♀️👯♀️😉
#candidcamera
📸🥴😂
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Grafting. 2 days he’s been practicing. The difference between the first and last clip is 🤯 go on kid
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An early live for
@BBCRadioWales
on Queen Street talking about
@RoyalMail
‘s festive postbox in Cardiff. What’s not to love!
#ChristmasIsComing
🎄
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A crisp one at Cardiff City Stadium today for
@5liveSport
🥶🥶🥶
@ToddCantwell_10
didn’t get the memo though 🔥
#CardiffCity
#NorwichCity
#bbcfootball
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Reflecting on yesterday’s South Wales Derby... don’t think I actually took a breath all game so when FT comes around &
@Sonjamclaughlan
throws to the Liberty, I’m the audible embodiment of when you blow up a balloon then let it go 🎈😂
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Launch of a new report on disabled access to public transport. Hear my piece with
@WhizzKidz
and
@DavidRowlandsAM
on
@BBCRadioWales
after 4
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FA Cup feature pending 🎥 … not long to go until
@SwansOfficial
v
@SouthamptonFC
on
#MOTDWales
top team
@sion_rees
@lens_monkey
🙏
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My 6 year old boy leapt up and celebrated the announcement of
@EmmaRaducanu
as
#SPOTY
winner so emphatically 😍 🎊 He’s all about the ⚽️ so I had no idea Emma’s amazing 🎾 achievements had had such an impact on his young mind. This is why we LOVE sport ❤️
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.
@Cymru
engagement event discussing the growth in women’s football ⚽️ coverage. Thank you to the amazing
@lowri_1987
✨ for hosting
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Welsh sport results this bank holiday weekend:
❌❌ Cardiff City
❌❌ Swansea City
❌✅ Newport County
❌❌ Wrexham
❌ Wales - women’s 6N
❌Celtic Dragons
❌ Scarlets
❌ Ospreys
❌ Dragons
❌ Cardiff Blues
😳
(Can I count a Glamorgan friendly ✅? 🤔)
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Expecting plenty of
@CardiffCityFC
fans to get in touch on
#CallRob
on
@BBCRadioWales
in the next 20 mins 🙈
#QPRCAR
#Bluebirds
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And we’re live 💪
@BBCRadioWales
, BBC Two Wales, Cymru Fyw, Red Button, iPlayer. Fantastic to see this level of coverage of
@Cymru
women on
@BBCSportWales
🙌 ⚽️ and from our new home at Central Square 🤩
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The kid’s incapable of finding socks that match his shorts... but can certainly find a corner 👀⚽️🔥
#IsolationLife
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Thanks for your help on this
@WelshHearts
If there hadn’t been a defibrillator at this rugby pitch, this story would be very different
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The mascot series continues with this festive pair! Plenty of layers for
@BristolCity
v
@SunderlandAFC
here at Ashton Gate ❄️🎅🏼
@BBCMOTD
#BBCFootball
#FinalScore
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Many, many layers were worn at a chilly Rodney Parade tonight 🥶 ❄️ Wales 🏴 v Belarus 🇧🇾
#MOTD
#bbcfootball
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Seeing the growth in women’s sport coverage in recent years has been ✨✨✨ even being the tiniest part of that has been a privilege. The journey continues…
Credit: Ashley Crowden Photography
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When I asked my parents what they’d been up to, “practicing our dance for Tik Tok” was fundamentally not the answer I either expected or wanted 🤦♀️
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.
@CardiffCityFC
could have done with my 2 year old on the pitch to finish off those pens... 👀⚽️
#baller
#trickshot
#minimessi
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What a success the annual
@CaerauElyFC
kids v parents game was 😍 shame about the result but we’ll take it to see the smiles on their faces ♥️
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8pm: Go to put child to bed 🛏
8.15: His Nanna FaceTimes 📞
8.16: He reads every word of War & Peace to her (feels like it, was actually Room on the Broom) 📚
8.45: A game of eye spy ensues 👁
9pm: Mum asleep, child and Nanna doing show & tell with their teddies 🐻
🤦♀️
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First day at Sky Sports News tomorrow. Today I am a nervous/excited wreck 😬😆
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What a joy to share a studio with this legend for
#CallRob
on
@BBCRadioWales
today. Always a pleasure Gilo! And it was a busy one as expected 🙈
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This has been an extremely special project for my talented
@BBCSportWales
colleagues
@MollyStephens_
&
@ChloeDell
. A brilliant and important piece, a cracking podcast & some epic video archive of Liza Burgess’ playing days 🏉
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Early bird 🐦🪱 for
@shrewsburytown
v
@theposh
winning the ultimate accolade of “first to dial” in for
#BBCFinalScore
🤣🤣🤣 CHUFFED
@BBCMOTD
⚽️(oh, and I have new Christmas hair for the occasion🎄👩🏼🦰 yay!)
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I’m a late sub on
#CallRob
on
@BBCRadioWales
tomorrow ⚽️ pleasure to join
@robphillipshere
@robbo9rovers
and
@iwanwroberts
👌 look forward to plenty of messages from
#Bluebirds
#Swans
#Exiles
#Dragons
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BIG day for
@BBCSportWales
🧡Wrexham’s penultimate game of the season (playoffs🤞) from 2 on
@bbccamplawn
@BBCRadioWales
📻 &
@BBCSport
website 🎧
Then...
🧡
#Swans
v Barnsley (Wembley🤞) 1830 KO, live text on
@BBCSport
website ✍️ comms on Radio Wales & Radio Cymru 📻
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A very entertaining South Wales derby for
@5liveSport
⚽️ now to turn attentions to the small matter of a Wales grand slam bid 🏉 🏴
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This is what I like to see!! 🙌
@eoindoyle88
👏👏👏 Every
@Official_STFC
fan I know praying this guy is still at the County Ground come January
#STFC
🇪🇺League goals in 2019/20:
19: 😱EOIN DOYLE😱
18: Lewandowski
17: Immobile
16: Werner, Vardy
12: Messi, Benzema
11: Ben Yedder
10: Hennings, Pedro, Lukaku, Dembele
9: Suarez, Ronaldo, Mbappe, Reus, Aguero, Salah, Mane, Kane (+6)
#STFC
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Never known anyone to love football as much as this one 👇 from the minute he wakes up he’s practicing ⚽️ No idea where he gets it from
@mizza10
👀
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Huge congrats to my hometown club
@Official_STFC
🎊🎉 will inevitably be an unforgettable season due to the circumstances... but also because I sense a spirit has returned to the County Ground that had been missing for some time. Really great to see
#STFC
👏
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Nine months ago my then 3 year old son made his debut for
@CaerauElyFC
under 7s. He produced this moment of absolute beauty/carnage and I’ve been smiling about it ever since 🎳 🤣
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...then he casually does this while out for our daily exercise ⚽️💪 crossbar challenge anyone? ✅
#ThursdayMotivation
#mychildsbetteratsportthanme
🙃
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And what a pleasure to chat to Wales and Brighton forward
@kayleighgreen22
⚽️ chasing that match ball 💪 🏃♀️
#WALvIRE
#Euro2021
#qualifiers
#changethegame
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A magical day ✨
@SophieNeale
I can’t stop thinking about it 🥲 a stunning bride and
@pompeyunihockey
1st XI reunited 🧡
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The topless wonder is back at it again. Starting to run out of challenges for him 🤔... any suggestions welcome! ⚽️
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My first Premier League presser for
@BBCSportWales
Can always rely on Warnock to give us a great line 👌
#merrychristmas
🎄
Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock has labelled the Premier League's policy on loan signings "scandalous".
➡️
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The sprog. Seven years old today 🎂🎊🎁🎉 Living the dream playing against
@ManCity
at the Etihad campus. Shameless (and consciously ageing) proud mum. Love you, mate, even forgive the choice of shirt ♥️
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So I’m back on
@BBCRadioWales
tomorrow morning from 6 bringing you the sport on
#RadioWalesBreakfast
Will get the thoughts of
@RobertEarnshaw
on
@CardiffCityFC
‘s thrashing at Loftus Road today...
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Just had the following conversation with my 2 year old son. Apollo: “Mummy, who are you on the phone to?” Me: “someone called Gareth” Apollo: “What, Gareth Bale?” Me: *fits of laughter* “no babe, Gareth from
@AdmiralUK
” 😂😂😂
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