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      <title>Wales Loves Euro 2016</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Tonight - It's our time]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <author>Geoff Williams</author>
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    <p>There&rsquo;s a whole lot of love going on in Wales at the moment, thanks to Euro 2016. And it seems the passionate support for our national team is matched by our love for gathering around a screen to watch them, or so the stats tell us.</p>
<p>Tickets for the fanzone at the Principality Stadium - supported by BBC Wales - were all gone in less than 90 minutes as fans made their plans for the semi-final. Those electric goal celebrations captured by BBC Wales news cameras at earlier fanzone matches suggest it could be quite a night.</p>
<p>The love doesn&rsquo;t end there. Even the stars of the new Doctor Who series, Pearl Mackie and Matt Lucas - who don&rsquo;t pretend to be Welsh, but are happily filming here - have been brushing up their Welsh to say a heartfelt &lsquo;pob lwc&rsquo; to our boys (&rsquo;da iawn a diolch&rsquo; to them).</p>
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    <p>As well as reliving those glorious goals, we&rsquo;ve also been looking closely at the remarkable figures from last weekend&rsquo;s incredible quarter-final against Belgium. They show that even more history was made that Friday night as in-home viewing peaked at 1.27 million people in Wales, the highest ever reported TV audience in Wales for live sport.</p>
<p>We&rsquo;re still working out how many others watched the match beyond their own front rooms. Initial indications suggest there were another couple of hundred thousand fans avidly watching in pubs, clubs or fanzones across Wales. That&rsquo;s as well, of course, as the tens of thousands of Welsh fans that made it to France to support the team. And apparently well over 80% of the whole population say they were interested in the result of the match.</p>
<p>The in-home BBC1 peak audience was the third highest TV audience in Wales this century, only exceeded by the 2012 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies (1.43m and 1.33m respectively).</p>
<p>The Wales v Belgium TV figure was around double the previous record this century for a Wales international football match. Before Euro 2016, the highest audience was a peak of 640,000 on BBC One during Wales v Russia in November 2003. Going further even back in time, the highest audience in the previous decade was the Wales v Romania World Cup qualifier in November 1993, which had an average BBC One audience of 671,000 (we don&rsquo;t have the peak audience for that match but it&rsquo;s a safe bet that it would have been around 800,000).</p>
<p>Only time will tell, but I suspect the record may be broken by the figures for tonight&rsquo;s semi-final. It&rsquo;s been shown by ITV this time but will still, of course, be live again on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru, as well as the BBC Wales-produced coverage on S4C.</p>
<p>Whatever happens, if Wales make it to the final, we might be breaking even more records on Sunday night.</p>
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      <title>It’s OUR TIME to Show Pride and Passion</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's time for Euro fans to get involved]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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    <p>Wales have really done us proud at Euro 2016 - there&rsquo;s just no stopping our national team - or their fans!</p>
<p>The whole country is so proud of what we&rsquo;ve achieved so far - and we want to show the world just how passionate Welsh fans are.</p>
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    <p>To help us celebrate send us snaps of you showing your support for the team and we&rsquo;ll get to work on creating a Facebook gallery &hellip; plus we may even create a TV and social media trail for BBC One Wales with the best pics!</p>
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<p>And then keep following our social media accounts for more info about when and where we&rsquo;ve used your pictures!</p>
<p>Come On Wales!<br /><strong>#ItsOurTime</strong></p>
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<h3>Daeth EIN HAWR i ddangos balchder ac angerdd</h3>
<p>Mae Cymru wedi gwneud yn wych yn Euro 2016 - does neb yn gallu stopio ein t&icirc;m cenedlaethol - na&rsquo;r cefnogwyr!</p>
<p>Mae&rsquo;r wlad i gyd mor falch o'r hyn rydym wedi&rsquo;i gyflawni hyd yma - ac rydym am ddangos i&rsquo;r byd pa mor angerddol yw cefnogwyr Cymru.</p>
<p>Er mwyn ein helpu i ddathlu, anfonwch eich lluniau atom ohonoch chi&rsquo;n cefnogi&rsquo;r t&icirc;m ac fe awn ni ati i greu oriel Facebook ... ac efallai byddwn hyd yn oed yn creu tr&ecirc;l teledu ar gyfer BBC One Wales a&rsquo;r gwefannau cymdeithasol gyda&rsquo;r lluniau gorau!</p>
<p>Mae tair ffordd wahanol y gallwch anfon eich lluniau gorau atom ni:</p>
<p>&bull; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BBCCymruWales/?fref=ts">Facebook</a>: Rhowch neges ar dudalen BBC Cymru Wales<br />&bull; <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCWales">Twitter</a>: Anfonwch neges drydar gan ddefnyddio #DaethEinHawr a thagio @BBCWales<br />&bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bbccymruwales/">Instagram</a>: Postiwch gan ddefnyddio #DaethEinHawr a thagio @BBCWales</p>
<p>Darllenwch y telerau a&rsquo;r amodau isod cyn anfon eich llun.</p>
<p>Ac yna cariwch ymlaen i ddilyn ein cyfryngau cymdeithasol am fwy o wybodaeth ynglŷn &acirc; phryd a ble rydym wedi defnyddio eich lluniau!</p>
<p>C&rsquo;mon Cymru!<br /><strong>#DaethEinHawr</strong></p>
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      <title>Mal Pope on Jack to a King: The Swansea Story</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mal Pope talks about the football feature film]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 11:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/e0551cd1-9c6d-40ba-aad5-cab0732d3a7f</link>
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    <p>In 2016 Swansea City are what they call an &lsquo;established&rsquo; Premier League team. Oh yes, there were some nerves a month or so ago that maybe this might be the year when things would start to unravel, but with a couple of wins that fear disappeared. With one game to go there is the possibility that Swansea might once again finish the season in the top half of the wealthiest league in the world.</p>
<p><br />Now, the club are planning for next season: talking to wealthy Americans about further investment, looking to sign new players for millions of pounds and hoping to start work on developing the Liberty Stadium to add another 10,000 seats to the 21,000 they already have because the demand for tickets for every home game is overwhelming.</p>
<p><br />Fifteen years ago things were very different. The club was reportedly millions of pounds in debt, the crowds were dwindling and the old Vetch Field was literally falling apart at the seams. Somehow the club was owned by a company that traded in windscreens. It was said they bought the club hoping to make some money on a future property deal, but with little progress on and off the field - even they lost patience.</p>
<p><br />How the club went from that position to where they are now is unbelievable, it&rsquo;s a fairy tale, its rags to riches, its pure Hollywood. In recent years other clubs have done well moving rapidly up the leagues - think of Bournemouth and Leicester! But bankrolling these clubs are billionaires who have been prepared to spend big money to make their dreams come true. The remarkable thing about Swansea City is that the club was bought by the fans. The Supporters Trust was right at the forefront of putting together a consortium of people who had a little bit of money that they were prepared to risk with little chance of ever seeing it again in the hope that they could save the club they loved.</p>
<p><br />At the time, the progress seemed imperceptible but looking back in truth each season saw improvements. Moving to a new stadium helped accelerate that progress and a new style of football and confidence in the boardroom meant that in 2011 the world had to take notice of &lsquo;The Swansea Way&rsquo;.</p>
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    <p>I have watched the Swans march though the leagues sitting next to my friend Edward Thomas, who as a production designer has created the Tardis and Daleks and worlds from the past and the future for Dr Who, Da Vinci&rsquo;s Demons and Resident Evil. I can&rsquo;t quite remember when we said to each other &ndash; &ldquo;someone ought to make a film about Swansea City&rdquo; or even more importantly, when we said: &ldquo;we ought to do it ourselves&rdquo;. But that is the Swansea Way. We took our cue from the club. We believed in the story and in the Welsh talent we knew we could assemble to be able to make a feature film.</p>
<p><br />I&rsquo;m sure lots of people thought we were nuts but then again the people who have run the club for the past 15 years are used to that as well. When we walked out of the film&rsquo;s premiere at the Empire Leicester Square I turned to Ed and smiled. We shook hands and again I can&rsquo;t quite remember who said, &ldquo;right when do we take this to New York?&rdquo;</p>
<p><br />PS The film had its New York Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2016!</p>
<p><br />Watch <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07cbdt0">Jack to a King &ndash; The Swansea Story</a> on Saturday, May 14, 9.20pm - BBC Two Wales</p>
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