The third oldest national football team in the world, Wales played an international match for the first time in 1876 and for the next 80 years the team competed without a manager. Since Jimmy Murphy's appointment in 1957, just fourteen men have held the position on a permanent basis. The first book to chronicle the fortunes of Wales’s national managers, What’s Welsh For Gaffer? explores how the role has evolved over the decades, from the days of the team being picked by committee, to Craig Bellamy's attack minded swashbuckling style. Author Leon Barton explains how four managers – Jimmy Murphy (1958), Chris Coleman (2016), Ryan Giggs (2020) and Rob Page (2022) – saw their teams qualify for an international tournament, while Englishman Mike Smith took his team to the quarter-finals of the 1976 European Championships when the tournament was restricted to the semi-finalists. He also investigates how, under Mike England, Terry Yorath and Mark Hughes, several Welsh sides stacked with World class talent consistently fail to qualify for tournaments, and assesses the massive contributions of John Toshack and Gary Speed who laid the foundations for others succeed. How did Englishman Mike Smith oversee a dramatic upturn in Welsh pride under his tenure? How did Jimmy Murphy and Terry Yorath deal with the unspeakable tragedies that occurred during their time in the job? Why did the Manic Street Preachers sing “Bobby Gould Must Go” before the controversial and maverick manager resigned in 1999, and how did Chris Coleman turn a team that was humiliated in a 6-1 loss to Serbia into European Championship semi-finalists in less than three years? Discover these stories and more as the men in charge of Wales are profiled, and their legacies examined, in this fascinating new book.