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The 2024–25 season is the 160th season in the history of Wrexham Association Football Club and began with the 5,000th recorded league match for the club. [1] This is their first season back in League One since the 2004–05 season, following successive promotions from the National League two years ago and League Two the previous season.
However the National Eisteddfod of Wales as an organisation traces its history back to the first event held in 1861, in Aberdare. [10] [11] One of the most dramatic events in Eisteddfod history was the award of the 1917 chair to the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans, bardic name Hedd Wyn, for the poem Yr Arwr (The Hero). The winner was announced, and ...
George Wynn was Wrexham's top scorer in his one season at the club, 1908–09, with 28 goals. Tom Hewitt spent one season at Wrexham, making 27 appearances at full-back. Jimmy Jones scored 26 goals in 45 games, finishing as top scorer in 1924–25. Joe Cooke, one of only two Dominican players for Wrexham, played 70 times for the Red Dragons.
Alan Hill appeared 267 times for Wrexham between 1975 and 1983, winning the Third Division title in 1978. John Lyons started his career at Wrexham in 1975 and played for the club 115 times. Andy Marriott is the goalkeeper with the second-most appearances at Wrexham, with 269 appearances in the 1990s. Deryn Brace played 118 times for Wrexham.
This is a list of the complete squads for the 2025 Six Nations Championship, an annual rugby union tournament contested by the national rugby teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. Ireland are the defending champions. Note: Number of caps and players' ages are indicated as of 31 January 2025 – the tournament's opening day.
It lies around 5 miles to the east of Wrexham, close to the River Dee on the border with England. [2] [3] [4] There is a primary school in Bowling Bank, and a late-Georgian church, dedicated to St. Paul, in Isycoed village, [5] which was designated as a Grade II listed building on 20 June 1996. It will be the location of the 2025 Wrexham ...
In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod [a] is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music. [2]: xvi The term eisteddfod, which is formed from the Welsh morphemes: eistedd, meaning 'sit', and fod, meaning 'be', [3] means, according to Hywel Teifi Edwards, "sitting-together."
Eisteddfod yr Urdd flag, early 1930's The festival at Bala in 1954.. The first Urdd National Eisteddfod was held in 1929 at Corwen. [1] Originally held over two days, the festival has grown in recent times into a week-long celebration of competition and socialising. [1]