Sean Welsh However, during the match, Welsh suffered a further knee injury, which kept him out for a further month. He also struggled with further injuries during the 2014/15 season, as he made only three first team appearances. Welsh and Partick Thistle agreed to a short-term extension to his contract in June 2015, in an effort to prove his fitness. Welsh scored his first goal in the top flight converting thistle's first penalty in 69 games in a 2–1 defeat against Celtic. Welsh scored his first goal of the 2016–17 season converting a first half penalty in a 1–1 draw with Ross
History of the Welsh language and the establishment of Welsh television and radio found a mass audience which was encouraged in the retention of its Welsh. Perhaps most important of all, at the end of the 20th century it became compulsory for all schoolchildren to learn Welsh up to age 16, and this both reinforced the language in Welsh-speaking areas and reintroduced at least an elementary knowledge of it in areas which had become more or less wholly Anglophone. The decline in the percentage of people in Wales who can speak Welsh has now been halted, and there are even signs of a modest recovery.