“HOW ABOUT THE FINAL THIS TIME?! STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED…”
Just how special was Euro 2016?
It was an amazing experience. Being with your mates for that period of time, beating some big teams... it was just the best time. It couldn’t have gone any better.
Why did you dye your hair platinum blond just before the tournament?!
I don’t know... I just thought, ‘Why not?!’ I wanted to do it and thought it was the right time to go for it. There were several mothers after me, though, with the amount of children in Wales who had that hairstyle afterwards! [FFT: What did the squad say when you first turned up with it?] A few were unsure, but I managed to back it up! People were putting a bit of pressure on when I first had it done, saying, ‘You’d better perform…’
Before Euro 2016 started, what would you have regarded as success for Wales?
Not to be embarrassed. [] No, our target was to win one game, then see what happened. We did that in the first against Slovakia. The first 10 or 15 minutes of it epitomised everything we felt: we were a bit nervous, conceded a few chances, and then settled down and started to play. Winning put us in a great position to get out the group.
