Monday, November 21, 2022. That is the date which all Wales fans will this morning have been circling in their diaries, the day on which their team — their country — will face the USA in Qatar and, in doing so, end a 64-year World Cup hiatus.
By then, 23,532 days will have passed since Wales’s exit from the 1958 tournament at the hands of Pele’s Brazil in Gothenburg, a quarter-final that the current crop of players’ parents won’t even be able to remember.
