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Article: WELSH DRAGONS ARE BREATHING FIRE.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2004
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JOHN EDWARDS has taken over speaker's corner again in the Railway Inn and his mates begin to groan. "I tell you what. No, listen. England think they own the f***ing football world and they don't. Michael Owen? No, listen.
All that hype about Michael Owen? Is he fit? Will he play? I hope so because the man couldn't score in a brothel at the moment."
A colleague tries to get a word in and fails. "And another thing.
Remember this," says John, not breaking stride. "I was there when we beat England 4-1 in 1980 and no one thought it was possible. I was there when Leighton James scored to beat them at Wembley and when we played last at Wrexham 20 ...