Forget the Germans – watch out for the Welsh.
The best of the Bundesliga may be making bratwurst of La Liga’s luvvies in the Champions League but there has been another revolution a lot closer to home.
What a season this has been for football in Wales – and that’s not even mentioning the Six Nations rugby ...
You can’t move these days for celebration choruses of Hymns and Arias or Men of Harlech; from one end of the country to the other, it’s been one big success story.
City fans do not need reminding about Swansea’s pass-perfect performance which eased them to a first major trophy in their history.
Cardiff have proved themselves worthy champions of the Championship as the only side showing any consistency in a scattergun contest.
Wrexham lifted the FA Trophy and have one foot in the play-off final to regain their Football League status after five years out.
And their opponents in the Conference showdown could well be Newport County, another blast from the past, who won at Grimsby in their semi-final opening leg.
Proud Welshman Michael Flynn’s never short of a word or 20 but he talked up their chances when he returned to his roots there last summer after leaving Valley Parade. He was not wrong.
They’d just finished only two places off the drop at the time. This season they were third.
Who now would bet with any confidence against an all-Welsh final for that ticket to League Two?
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