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It really was. Rarely at a Welsh game have I felt as relaxed about the result as I did after the first goal went in, we were class. And it was lovely and warm in the Toulouse late evening sunshine. Great times
And the Russians had punched themselves out in the earlier games in Marseilles and Lille. Everyone I met before and after the game was friendly and charming. Though if you experienced the reception we had at the Rossiya Hotel off Red Square 12 years earlier you had an idea of how welcoming they can be to foreigners