Watch Welsh Actor Michael Sheen Channel Knute Rockne, William Wallace in Monologue for the Ages (Video)
thewrap.compic.twitter.com/5jaCLtIwOo“I hear the voices singing. Speed your journey, bois bach,” the “Good Omens” star said, using the Welsh exclamation for “good heavens.” “One nation, singing with one voice, a song of hope, a song of courage,” Sheen said, having been asked what he would say to the Welsh team specifically before their matchup with England, which will join Wales in the World Cup’s Group B with the United State and Iran.
Wales will be led by Bale, the former Real Madrid superstar who signed with the MLS’ Los Angeles FC in June, three weeks after sealing the Welsh national team’s first spot in the World Cup since 1958 with the deciding goal in a 1-0 win over Ukraine.“A victory song that floats through the valleys, like a red mist, rolls over the mountain tops, like crimson thunder,” Sheen continued. “A red storm is coming to the gates of Qatar. “It crackles, with the spirit of ’58 and Jimmy Murphy’s boys.
It turns the pages of the history books and finds Rob’s page, waiting, still to be written,” Sheen said, referring to Wales coach Rob Page. “What would you right in there, boys?
Dare you write your names on that page? We haven’t waited 64 years and come half way around the world to be troubled by a neighbor from back home.“When the English coming knock on our door, let’s give them some sugar, boys, let’s give them some Welsh sugar.
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