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Leon Barton

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Leon Barton was born in Wrexham, north Wales in 1978. He started writing about music in 2013 and was one of the founders of Welsh football online broadcaster Podcast Peldroed in 2014. His writing on Welsh football has also appeared in the Guardian, Vice, These Football Times, In Bed With Maradona and When Saturday Comes. Leon has lived in Innsbruck, Austria since 2009.

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The spark that lit a life-long love affair

It’s all my Dad’s fault really, the bastard. And he’s English! …English bastard.

At some point in the March of 1985, he said ‘Wales are playing Spain in Wrexham next month – do you want to go?’ I’m not sure if I knew that Wales had a football team at the time. I might not even have been aware there was such a thing as international football. My first memory of watching England on TV was the knockou Read more of this blog post »

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	Brian Flynn: Little Wonder 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Games: Passing through European football culture in 2021 by Martino Simicik Arese, Florian Bachmeier, Dominik Bardow 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

by Cormac McCarthy

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Invasion of the Space Invaders

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My Wrexham Story: The Inspirational Autobiography From The Beloved Football Hero

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