I went to the Valleys and found hope for Welsh rugby

I went to the Valleys and found hope for Welsh rugby

Saturday lunchtime at Ebbw Vale rugby club, and the high sides of the valley are spectacular in the spring sunshine – quite inaptly if you believe Welsh rugby is lost in the dark. On this spring day I find hope here, and while it takes some doing, and you might say it needs blind faith over reality, the alternative of losing what Wales gives to the world is too awful to accept.  Pulling up to the gates at Eugene Cross Park, I say that I believe …