With Wales missing out on the 2024 tournament, Tom Williams remembers the glory of Euro 2016

When I was six years old, I wanted to be English. It was 1990. England reached the World Cup semi-finals, everyone fell in love with Paul Gascoigne and it felt completely natural to align yourself with Bobby Robson’s valiant but vulnerable team.
I didn’t know that Wales, the nation of my birth, had failed to qualify for the tournament, finishing below West Germany, the Netherlands and Finland at the foot of UEFA qualifying Group 4, but following months of careful prompting by my quietly despairing f...