Wales boss Robert Page wants actor Michael Sheen to join the team at the World Cup in Qatar

ITV Wales journalist Cari Davies asks Wales manager Robert Page about Michael Sheen's speech

Wales manager Robert Page says a pre-match speech by actor Michael Sheen was "outstanding".

Sheen had appeared on Sky's League of Their Own programme and was asked what he'd say to the Welsh players before their first World Cup match in Qatar in November.

His two-minute response has been watched millions of times on social media.

Sheen said on the show: "I hear the voices singing, speed your journey bois bach. One nation singing with one voice. A song of hope. A song of courage. Victory song that floats through the valleys like a red mist rolls over the mountain tops like thunder.

"A red storm is coming to the gates of Qatar. It crackles with the spirit of 58 and Jimmy Murphy's boys. It turns the pages of the history books and finds Rob's page, still waiting to be written.

Sheen continued: "What would you write in there, boys? Dare you write your names on that page? We haven't waited 64 years and come half way around the world to be troubled by a neighbour from back home.

"When the English come knocking on our door, let's give them some sugar boys. Let's give them some Welsh sugar. They've always said we're too small, we're too slow, we're too weak, too full of fear but Yma o Hyd, you sons of speed. As they fall around us, we are still here."

Robert Page told ITV Wales News he wants the Hollywood actor to join the Welsh team at the tournament.

Page said: "He's coming to the first (World Cup) game with me. It's fantastic. I well up every time I watch it. I'd been in a meeting in Cardiff and my phone was going mad so I knew something significant had happened."

The Wales boss added: "Personally I want to thank him for doing that. I want to let him know that I appreciate what he's done there. Because we're on the map, but he's taken it to another level for us."