EHF Players of the Month competition, including the EHF Champions League, EHF Cup, EHF Challenge Cup, EHF EURO, European Beach Handball Championship and all European Younger Age Category events, is eligible to be nominated for the award. EHF Players of the Month EHF Players of the Month are monthly handball awards which recognises the best male and female players from European Handball Federation competitions. The recipients are chosen by a panel of journalists assembled by the EHF Media department, and are announced on the first Thursday of the following month. The awards were launched in January 2016 and are given on a monthly basis, except
Barry Welsh is Coming also featured cast members from the Channel 4 series "Absolutely", while some character elements from "Absolutely" were incorporated into the programme. Denzil and Gwynedd, two of the original "Absolutely" characters, briefly returned in "Barry Welsh is Coming" for shorter sketches, now accompanied by their 21-year-old son, Codfyl. The show returned in 2007 in the form of three themed specials broadcast throughout the year, presented by Sparkes in the guise of Fishguard news reporter Hugh Pugh. The new episodes were produced in-house by ITV Wales. The most popular segment of the programme, Hugh Pugh is a news reporter from Fishguard with