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Citizen's Nephew
Having been a lurker on this board for quite a few years, I feel that this topic is a good opportunity to finally contribute, introduce myself and answer the question all in one.
Citizen was my Uncle - Dewi Lewis. He was, indeed, Sports Editor of the Western Mail right up until the late sixties and was still a football journalist in the early seventies too.
In many 1960s Cardiff City programmes there’s an advert for his column in the Western Mail.
My avatar is the book cover of a history of the club Dewi wrote covering Cardiff City from 1910/11 season until 1951/52.
Some other interesting background to Citizen is that he was a big critic of the Welsh Football Association and actually covered the 1958 World Cup in Sweden (I used to go through his press photos and scrapbooks when I was a kid during the sixties). He gave John Charles a lift from the station after the Welsh FA failed to organise John's travel (I think there's an account in his biography).
My lasting memories of Dewi will always be his massive knowledge of Wales and Cardiff City and that he was forthright in his views about the game and the way the players were treated at the time.
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