Pembrokeshire League

Division 1

Wednesday 9th April 2025

Kick Off 18.00 Actual 18.01

Kilgetty A.F.C. 0 Monkton Swifts 4, attendance 48

15’ 0-1

34’ 0-2

35’ 0-3

65’ 0-4 (pen)

@ Kingsmoor Sports & Social Club

James Park

off Carmarthen Road

Kilgetty

SA68 0YD

No Admission or Programme.

I rounded off my short trip to West Wales by taking in this top division game in the Pembrokeshire League, a league I’ve only done a handful of grounds in, which oddly includes two for Fishguard Sports. Anyway, Kilgetty play at the Kingsmoor Sports & Social Club, in the west of the village. As the name suggests, it’s a multi sport set up, shared with cricket and as well as the main game, there was a youth match taking place on an adjacent pitch. As you enter, there is a small car park, with the clubhouse (opened at 7pm)/changing rooms at the far end. The cricket pitch is right in front, with the football to the left, running parallel to James Park, the road leading into the complex. It was roped off along the near side and round as far as the six yard box at each end. There is a side to side slope and the pitch was dusty and sounded very hard. The far side offered a raised view, with a fence to lean on, but the view from here meant looking directly into the sun, so not ideal, but at least half the crowd watched from here.

The match was 8th versus 3rd in the league table. Kilgetty are safe from relegation, whilst Monkton Swifts are looking at a third placed finish as being the best they can hope for, as long as Tenby don’t win their two games in hand, which would see them leapfrog them. The big two in this league have already sewn things up at the top, with unbeaten Goodwick United crowned champions and Hakin United taking the runners up spot, nine points back, with both teams having one game left.

It was a decent contest, which Monkton Swifts gradually gained control of. They took an early lead, when a diagonal ball into the box was swept in from six yards. They doubled their lead just after the half hour mark, when a cross was pulled back from the right and a first time shot found the bottom corner, despite the ‘keeper getting a hand to it and a minute later they made the points safe when a long range effort made it 0-3. It was a surprise that the second half only produced one more goal, when a penalty was converted to make it 0-4 with twenty five minutes left.

Thanks to a prompt kick off and short halftime, where everyone stayed out on the pitch, I had the bonus of an hour of daylight for the long drive home. Still back ten minutes before midnight, despite the M4 being closed at J12.