Conference League

Merthyr draw at Oxford

icWales (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

MERTHYR may well have left Oxfordshire feeling that this was two points dropped such was their dominance during large parts of this encounter.

Shephard takes the positives from Merthyr’s Oxford examination

icWales (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

It took Merthyr 40 minutes to get level, Scott Armitage finishing well after Marcus Griffiths’ cross evaded everyone to reach him at the far post. From there, a betting man would have put his house on Merthyr going on to take all three points but after the re-start they struggled to convert their possession into clear cut opportunities and eventually the home side came into the game.

Kanye West Discloses Ebbw Vale Grime Origins of 'Valley Rap' to Jay-Z & Eminem

TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Rap da Valley, created by Kanye West and rumoured to become the new sound of Hip-Hop has its roots in the coal mines of South Wales. At a satellite news conference yesterday in Merthyr Tydfil, West explained to Jay-Z and Eminem how he came to disc...

Puddy’s a ruddy nuisance

icWales (Free subscription) | yesterday

THE Martyrs came from behind twice to grab a point they richly deserved in a game they dominated for long periods.

deprivation makes you ill.

This is my truth (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

When I am talking about the ways in which deprivation affects the health and wellbeing of the people of Merthyr Tydfil, I am careful to comment that Glasgow has statistics that are even worse than ours. A recently published study from Glasgow reports findings from a project comparing people from the poorest parts of the [...]

Jay-Z, Eminem & P Diddy Hit Merthyr Tydfil To Learn Kanye West's 'Valley Rap'

TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009

Stars of Hip-Hop are heading for Wales to learn the secret of the Kanye West inspired 'Valley Rap' which is about to take the charts by storm. Everyone who has thus far heard Kanye West & Tom Jones duet on 'Rap da Valley' has immediately unde...

Martyrs set for mid-table push

icWales (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

IN-FORM Merthyr Tydfil are confident a respectable mid-table position is within their grasp.

Will the last London-based civil servant please turn the lights out?

Liberal Bureaucracy (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009

It seems that the Government have reached the conclusion that a review is needed to see what civil service and quango jobs could be moved out of London and the South East... again. There is, it is suggested, scope to move some of those 132,000 civil service and 90,000 "arms-length bodies" jobs and achieve not only savings but place civil servants in the heart of the communities they serve....

It is unusual: low-budget Welsh film outperforms big hitters

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Bawdy farce involving Tom Jones's penis becomes a multiplex sensation The Hollywood blockbusters 2012 and A Christmas Carol are playing to respectable audiences Merthyr Tydfil's Vue multiplex, entertaining fans with their multimillion pound effects. But in screen eight, the staff are having to drag in extra beanbags in an attempt to accommodate everyone who wants to see a comedy made for just £100,000...

Shephard looks to keep upward curve going against Leamington

icWales (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

MERTHYR Tydfil boss Garry Shephard is looking for back-to-back wins to propel his Martyrs into a mid-table position, starting with a win at home to Leamington tomorrow (3pm).

Martyrs are on the rise

icWales (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

THIS eventually became a comfortable victory for the Martyrs and one which they richly deserved on a day that saw them get within touching distance of safety, writes Anthony Hughes.

Martyrs boss Shephard calls on fans to boost winning team

icWales (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

“We would be 8th or 9th now had we not suffered the 10-point deduction and only one point away from the play-off places,” he said after this latest victory which has seen Merthyr take seven points out of the last nine.

Old Firm, new challenges

Missives From Doktorb (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

My post last week concerning proposals to bring Celtic and Rangers into a modified two-tier Premier League brought a very considered response in the Comments section from a reader called "Martin". This post is a part reply to him. It would appear, following the Premier League vote last week, that this "Anglo-Scottish League" proposal has been roundly defeated. Martin says, "Having...

Merthyr teach Ruby a lesson about football

icWales (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

MERTHYR emerged convincing winners at struggling Rugby, for whom debutant manager Lee Colkin had introduced four new faces into the home side’s starting line-up.

1930s journalist Gareth Jones to have story retold

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Correspondent who exposed Soviet Ukraine's manmade famine to be focus of new documentary In death he has become known as "the man who knew too much" – a fearless young British reporter who walked from one desperate, godforsaken village to another exposing the true horror of a famine that was killing millions. Gareth Jones's accounts of what was happening in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-33...

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