West Wales Premier League
Saturday 22nd February 2025
Kick Off 17.00 Actual 17.03
Calsonic Kansei Swiss Valley 2 Dafen Welfare 0, attendance 73
18’ 1-0
62’ 2-0
@ Coleg Sir Gar, 3G Pitch
Sandy Road (A484)
Llanelli
SA15 4DN
No Admission or Programme.
It took just under half an hour to drive from Ragged School to Coleg Sir Gar, just west of Llanelli, arriving twenty minutes before the scheduled kick off time, where CKSV were staging their game tonight due to problems with the pitch at their own ground. Yet another dreadful caged pitch, that makes a mockery of the Welsh F.A. in allowing this venue to stage level 4 football. As with last night, there is no spectator access inside the cage, but unlike last night, no vantage points whatsoever. Rather oddly, there is a 6 yard wide strip of tarmac that runs the full length of one side of the pitch, but behind the high fence, whilst at the rear, separating it from the playing fields, is a full length waist high barrier. The cynical amongst us might suggest it was a mistake by the builders when installing it, putting the fences in the opposite way to what they should have gone…..although, once again, it just about sums up everything you’d expect in this league regarding ground grading requirements, or more the lack of! Quite why a club would bother to hire this venue, where they can’t take any money, is questionable, especially as we’re only five weeks away from the clocks changing and it could easily be played on a midweek evening at their own ground, despite it lacking floodlights.
Anyway, onto the match, where 12th hosted 13th in the league table. There was little between the two teams, with CKSV just edging it. They scored the opening goal after eighteen minutes, when a corner on the left was met with a glancing header that found the far corner of the net. Goal number two came just after the hour mark, when another corner from the left was headed back across the six yard box and nodded in from close range.
Not the most enjoyable game, totally down to the venue hosting it, but at least I’m down to just one ground yet to visit in this league now…..CKSV at their proper home. Good progress was being made on the drive home until the M4 ground to a halt just past Junction 20. Four and a half hours later we finally moved. The police had closed the motorway, due to body parts having been reported on the carriageway (according to reports on news outlets). The annoying thing was, it wasn’t even on our side of the motorway! I certainly didn’t think that a 5pm kick off in Wales would see me not arriving home until 02.50 the following morning….
