England v Wales : Bellamy smiles and talks boxing and could history be made ?
Monday, 6th Oct 2025 19:48 by Gruff

Wales play England at Wembley on Thursday evening (7:45pm) and head coach, Craig Bellamy was smiling when he spoke about his sides chances against a team valued at around 1.4 billion.

Speaking on the forthcoming fixture Bellamy stated, “England have a ridiculous squad, like France. They have a transfer market value of 1.4billion, ours is £170million. If you were a boxing promoter you wouldn’t put us together. It wouldn’t be allowed. We don’t go off values, but the simple fact is they don’t just have one team. They have two, three, four and France and others have the same level.”

It’s very clear how tough the test is that this Wales side face. For many years the Wales set up was heavily influenced by a whole raft of Swansea City youth and then academy products via the first team. Now we are seeing a new age developing with even Rubin Colwill getting a sniff at the red shirt in recent times. Cardiff City are also seeing their academy pathways being rewarded. That may well be...