About Dewi Hughes
- 26 Jan 07, 08:54 AM
Having endured a five-year winless streak with , rugby union has never really brought me much happiness.
My losing aura obviously rubbed off on the Wales national team too, as the infamous on my 12th birthday in 1988 was the first international I attended.
Since then, I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen Wales win - so it was an easy choice to join the two seasons ago rather risk spoiling the hopes of a nation by going to the stadium.
However, the sport has given the most bizarre experience of my journalism career to date… sitting with some of Wales' finest rugby hacks listening to Mike Ruddock going through his full repertoire of Beatles hits on guitar!
I got my taste of journalism with a short stint with the , (covering my beloved Bangor City FC) before then making a potentially hazardous switch to Caernarfon to join the .
I joined the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport website in Cardiff in 2000 and have been writing on all aspects of Welsh sport ever since.
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Hey Dewi H, I saw the 88 defeat - Go the Romans!
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Hi Dewi, you have beautiful eyeballs
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