Showcasing his best mix of Knut Rockne and William Wallace, prolific Welsh actor and BBC legend Michael Sheen launched on the UK’s Sky network in a locker-room speech on Thursday night.
Assigned by the host of the sports comedy show “A League of Their Own” to cheering the Wales national football team ahead of November’s World Cup, Sheen was not addressing the Gareth Bale-led team to his face.
But he can also be.
“I’ve got to get to the right place now,” Sheen said before beginning the impassioned speech. “Ok.”
Sheen, with his palms open and his arms outstretched, provides a monologue to end all monologues, which you can watch and read below.
“I hear voices singing. Speed up your journey, Bois Bach,” said the “Good Omens” star, using a Welsh exclamation for “good heaven.”
“One nation, singing in unison, a song of hope, a song of courage,” said Sheen, when asked what he would specifically say to the Welsh team ahead of their match with England, which included the United States. And Iran was included in Group B of Wales World Cup
Wales will be led by former Real Madrid superstar Bale, who MLS’ Los Angeles FC . signed with In June, three weeks after securing the Welsh national team’s first place in the World Cup since 1958 with a decisive goal 1-0 win over Ukraine.
“A victory song that floats through the valleys, like a red mist, rolling over mountain peaks, like crimson thunder,” Sheen continued. “A red storm is approaching the gates of Qatar.
“It crackles with the spirit of the boys of ’58 and Jimmy Murphy. It turns the pages of the history books and finds Robb’s page, waiting, still to be written,” Sheen told Wells. Referring to coach Rob Page, he said. “What would you do there, boys? Do you dare to write your name on that page? We haven’t waited 64 years and come halfway around the world to be harassed by a neighbor on our way back home.
“When the British knock on our door, let’s give them some sugar, boys, let’s give them some Welsh sugar. They’ve always said we’re too young, we’re too slow, we’re too weak, too scared But Yama O Hyde, sons of speed, and they fall around us.
“we are still here.”
