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For a cyclist who enjoys spending his down time away from the bike watching movies, the past year has read like a film script for Stevie Williams.

Luke Williams believes Swansea City have turned a corner and “become a team with an identity” as they moved to within two points of the Championship play-off places. The Swans head coach was in upbeat mood after watching his team secure back-to-back victories following a gritty, but deserved, 1-0 win at home to fifth-placed Watford.

Chepstow Racecourse hosts its annual Military Raceday at the track on Wednesday as part of an action-packed eight-race Jumps card. Racing gets underway at 12.20pm with a conditional jockeys’ handicap chase before the card comes to a close at 4.05pm as ten runners take on the class five bumper contest.

Wales manager Craig Bellamy has likened “streetwise” Harry Wilson to South American trio Carlos Tevez, Javier Mascherano and Luis Suarez. Former striker Bellamy played alongside all three players – with Tevez at Manchester City and Mascherano and Suarez in two different spells at Liverpool – during his colourful career at the top level.

Welsh jump jockey Alan Johns has won a top award after becoming the new face and voice of horse racing. Johns, who rides for the Tim Vaughan stable in the Vale of Glamorgan, has won the Jockeys Education and Training Scheme (JETS) Progress Award in recognition of his burgeoning media career.

Wales have welcomed back Daniel James and Rubin Colwill for their final Nations League games against Turkiye and Iceland. James has yet to play for new boss Craig Bellamy after suffering a hamstring injury in August.

Will Rowlands insists the bell has rung and “school time is over” for Warren Gatland’s Wales squad. The 33-year-old Racing 92 giant is back in the Welsh fold after taking a summer off and missing the three Test defeats against the Springboks and Wallabies (twice) that took the current international losing streak up to nine.

Harry Wilson has earned huge praise from Fulham manager Marco Silva after the Wales star proved his club’s inspirational matchwinner against Brentford. Wilson – who will be named in the Wales squad on Tuesday morning for the upcoming Nations League matches – claimed a superb second-half added time brace to earn a 2-1 victory over Brentford.

Newport head coach Tyron Morris has questioned the Welsh Rugby Union’s decision to shut down Super Rygbi Cymru for most of November. Morris’s Black and Ambers currently sit third in the new semi-professional structure, behind leaders Cardiff and Ebbw Vale.

Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson has admitted his team have to “take it on the chin” after they were dumped out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle. Harrogate pulled off the biggest upset of the opening round on Sunday as the Sky Bet League Two side beat League One high-flyers Wrexham 1-0 to reach the second round.