An extract from the poem by Sarah McCreadie

We are here

Fire and waves

and football

forged

this mountain peak

Y daith did not begin with four Cymru goals

it began when these menywod hanesyddol were

girls in baggy kits

who dared kick a ball for the first time

and it began with our first steps of 1973

and it began with the rebel girls of P.E.

To the child she was

Rhiannon says believe

We have scaled these ancient rocks

this untread path

wrote our own map

the wind will carry through generations

Each goal a summit step

gave our bodies for the apex

hearts pounding under red shirts

finding infinity in the embers of 90 minutes

to be the first to stand on mountaintop

Do not measure us in anything

but each step we have taken in studded boots

and bucket hats