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Why football is the Welsh national sport, not rugby

The story of football in Wales tells a richer, geographically-wider, more socially-inclusive national story than rugby, the country's much vaunted "national sport". Comedian and writer Elis James gives a polemical appraisal of football's role in constructing modern Welsh identity.

First broadcast on In Wales the Ball Is Round, 5 June 2016.

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