Impressive Wales helped on their way to Play Off Final by madcap defending.

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1. Dai Woosnam says:

   March 22, 2024 at 2:27 pm

   Paul, compadre…
   Last night proved above all that your glowing words about the then teenage Ampadu were words well placed. At the time I parted company from your opinion: I thought him too cocky by half. But as you say, he has now matured into something special, and his time at Leeds has also benefited Rodon no end.
   As for your comment re the tapped free kick being a thing much more common 40+ years ago, before now almost vanishing from the game… I put it to you that the reason is the almost total disappearance of a referee whistling up for an obstruction offence. Indeed, I cannot recall when I last observed an indirect free kick.
   TTFN,
   Dai.
2. The other Bob Wilson says:

   March 23, 2024 at 7:43 am

   Good point about Rodon Dai, Ampadu was never going to live up to the hype he received as a fifteen year old and I shared your opinion of him at one time. Although I don’t like saying this as a serial Leeds disliker, that club have been the making of him.
   I’ve never seen or heard it confirmed officially, but I was told by someone who tends to know about these things about thirty years ago that obstruction was no longer an offence – one of my pet hates in the modern game is the way defenders plonk themselves in front of a ball that is slowly rolling out of play to stop an attacking player getting to it. I may have mentioned this before, but I watched an old Big Match from the late seventies a year or two ago when a defender tried that on and ended up having a free kick awarded against him for obstruction and got a booking for good measure, some things really were better in the old days!

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